0 to $20M ARR in 5 years bootstrapped - how to achieve the impossible?

when we first started @readwise, all i did for the first summer was write personalized cold emails to anyone who'd expressed pain around their Kindle highlights online it was grueling, rejection-laden work, but in July 2017 we celebrated our first "best day ever": the inimitable @craigmod onboarded, experienced value, and then tweeted about @read... See more

Figma had $0 in revenue for 4 years. Completely breaks the “rush something to market and start charging immediately” mindset that most try to adapt. And it resulted in the largest acquisition of a private software company (ever) https://t.co/YLGBR9hJe0