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Event Espresso reached scale entirely bootstrapped without outside capital

Seth Shoultes · 1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project · Jul 14, 2019 · at 13:03

Seth Shoultes confirms to Nathan Latka that Event Espresso has not raised any external capital.

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“Yeah, we're completely bootstrapped.”

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