Bugsnag bootstrapped to profitability before raising venture capital
James Smith · 762: 4000 Developers Pay Them To Catch Bugs, $9.5m Raised · Aug 25, 2017 · at 10:52
James Smith, co-founder and CEO of Bugsnag, discusses the company's early funding history with host Nathan Latka.
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“We bootstrapped for the first kind of six to nine months. And we were profitable. That's by the time we went out to raise around.”
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