4 years at GoCardless, cycled round the world, then built a company to $14k MRR (and sold it)

Update: 2019-07-01

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Grey Baker is the co-founder and CEO of Dependabot which is a service that makes it easy for developers to keep the third-party dependencies their code uses up-to-date.

Grey has had an interesting career, starting out at McKinsey to then helping grow GoCardless from 6 to 100 people before embarking on a 7 month cycle tour around the world and then settling back in the UK to build Dependabot to $14k MRR. It wasn't quite as easy as that though! In this episode, we talk about Grey's ups and downs of building a bootstrapped SaaS business, as well as a little bit of insight into his time at GoCardless.

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4 years at GoCardless, cycled round the world, then built a company to $14k MRR (and sold it)

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4 years at GoCardless, cycled round the world, then built a company to $14k MRR (and sold it)

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4 years at GoCardless, cycled round the world, then built a company to $14k MRR (and sold it)