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Rush: Intentionally caps micro-SaaS tools at $100k MRR to avoid enterprise bloat
“Basically the way, I do is I start, I get to fifth decade, then I pose, then I come back and I get a hundred K then I pose and go to other tools. And I basically don't want to go farther than a hundred K because then it becomes a product that will require me t…”
Rush: Listing Bot uses a 90/10 equity split with his QA co-founder
“Yeah, it's not fifty-fifty. So it's also split, but not fifty-fifty. It's like nine to 10.”
Rush: Operates a hold-forever strategy and does not sell his products
“No, I hold it forever. So I only buy, I don't sell and because I don't see any reason to sell.”
Rush: I pivoted from VC to bootstrapping to avoid optimizing for exits
“That's why I made a pivot from VC back world into the booster world where I'm my own boss and I don't have to optimize for exit or for the next round. I just own the whole thing. I have good profits. I use profits to fund myself.”
Rush: Listing Bot generates over $50K/month from ~1,000 one-time buyers
“So this one is doing over 50 K a month and it's a one-time payment. So it's basically thousand people buying it every month.”
Rush: End game is providing the full software stack for bootstrapped founders
“I actually want to End up having this full ecosystem where I have every single tool that a typical busy founder or like a bootstrap founder would ever need starting from tools for building products, tools for operating tools for growing and tools for monetizin…”