Elastic.io Bootstrapped For Its First Year Using German Social Support
Renat Zubairov · 1069 Elastic CEO: We're A More Professional Zapier · Jun 28, 2018 · at 5:08
Renat Zubairov is the CEO and co-founder of integration platform Elastic.io, discussing the company's early financing strategy with Nathan Latka.
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“We bootstrapped actually you know, in Germany, we have a very good social system and we basically survived from our savings and this social support for a year.”
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