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Rush: AI-augmented founders running zero-employee companies will become the corporate standard
“And I think the future is founders plus AI agents, and that will be the new normal. They will be the new corporations run by very few people in some cases, like in my case, almost no people and the AI.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 1:20 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: Ranking top on Google will solve LLM search visibility long-term
“I think you should bet on one thing that all LLMs will end up searching internet before they produce any results, and they will end up searching internet in a very similar way. So basically, as long, so if you think that Google is the best search on the intern…”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 28:02 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: AI Agent Portfolio Generates Around $3.5M ARR
“So I'm doing around 3.5 million error now with all these agents.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 1:54 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: SEO Bot generates nearly $120k MRR, doubling month-over-month
“Yeah, this one is doing almost a 120 KMRR now and been doubling month over month after the launch.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 2:31 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: Most LLMs use live web search, primarily via Bing
“So now almost all LLMs use live search. So most of them use Bing search, but Bing just closing down their API now, by the way, but until they do it if you're presented on a Bing first page, then you'll be presented in most of the LLMs too, because almost every…”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 26:46 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: SEO Bot has roughly 4,000 to 5,000 paying customers
“I think it's like five K or four K.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 5:51 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: Owns 25 to 35 directories, mostly generating traffic rather than direct revenue
“Like I have directories. I have like 25 or 35 directories right now, like a lot of them. And most of them make no revenue. Some of them do pretty good, but most of them don't, but they drive traffic to all my other tools.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 13:18 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: Tiny Ads hit $5K MRR and 1,000 publishers in 35 days
“So now after 35 days. We reached five K MRR and 10 K in revenue and almost 1000 publishers have joined the platform to serve the ads.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 15:51 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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Rush: Listing Bot tracks ~20,000 of ~100,000 global web directories
“I think there are a 100,000 directors in the world and probably we have around 20 K of them now.”
John Rush Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 10:06 Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
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