Ray Invested Hundreds of Thousands and Deferred Salary for Five Years
Landon Ray · This is How Much Revenue Ontraport Does with Landon Ray · Feb 4, 2016 · at 7:20
Landon Ray, founder and CEO of Ontraport, discusses bootstrapping the company through five years of failure before finding product traction in 2009.
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“Oh, hundreds of thousands of dollars. And that's it. And that's if you don't count the fact that I didn't take a salary for all those years. So, you know, because I had savings, so I was able to do that.”
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