Trustmary is fully bootstrapped using revenue from video agency operations
Arttu Haho · TrustMary: Transition from $2m Agency to $200k SaaS · Jun 2, 2020 · at 4:22
Trustmary founder Arttu Haho explains how the company funded its transition from a services agency into a SaaS business.
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“So we are bootstrapped to this point and yeah, that's how we have made money in the history and that's our core.”
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