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How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped to a $10 Million Exit

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped to a $10 Million Exit

Update: 2024-12-12
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This is how Tibo Louis-Lucas built a new startup every month... until one took off and turned into a $10 million exit.


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In this conversation we chat about:


Founder Mode

  • (00:00 ) — Intro
  • (01:24 ) — Being a venture-backed founder
  • (02:41 ) — Learnings from early business failures
  • (24:00 ) — Identifying scalable business opportunities
  • (33:20 ) — Goal of getting 5 companies to $100k MRR in 3 years
  • (41:35 ) — How to unlock different versions of yourself
  • (43:02 ) — Identifying opportunities while building multiple companies


Growth & Scaling

  • (05:14 ) — The advantage of quickly shipping
  • (08:36 ) — Pros and cons of building in public
  • (10:28 ) — Alternatives to building in public
  • (11:24 ) — The moats that exist today
  • (15:31 ) — Utilizing micro-influencers for growth
  • (37:56 ) — Keeping 2-person companies at scale
  • (39:18 ) — Working alongside a complementary co-founder


Product & Acquisition Strategy

  • (12:55 ) — Platform risk
  • (18:32 ) — How founders can learn to kill products
  • (20:35 ) — Outsourcing to external developers
  • (21:57 ) — Buying small products
  • (25:26 ) — Deciding how much to invest into micro-acquisitions
  • (27:47 ) — Buying & selling assets rather than companies
  • (30:42 ) — Buying a tool to compete with the newsletter giants
  • (36:46 ) — AI’s unique software enablement
  • (44:08 ) — Deciding when and how to sell your company
  • (48:10 ) — How to decide how and whom to sell your company to


Advice & Insights

  • (49:04 ) — Founder Tips for Negotiating Deals
  • (49:57 ) — Bootstrapping vs. raising VC
  • (52:08 ) — The future of SaaS
  • (55:58 ) — Taking a job after being a founder
  • (58:21 ) — Founders don’t know when they need to quit


Rapid Fire

  • (59:18 ) — Who is one investor you’d recommend?
  • (59:46 ) — One thing you'd change about startups?
  • (1:00:20 ) — Advice for first-time founders?
  • (1:00:51 ) — Something you believe that most disagree with?
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How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped to a $10 Million Exit

How Tibo Louis-Lucas Bootstrapped to a $10 Million Exit

Michael Houck