Near death VC experience to $25k p/m bootstrapped - Kyle Gawley, Gravity
Kyle Gawley is the founder of Gravity, which he’s bootstrapped to over $25k p/m. In 2012, he scaled a vc-backed company, called Get Invited, to $5m in sales, before a near-death experience made him rethink how he lived his life. Now, Kyle is travelling the world building his bootstrapped SaaS. Let’s find out how he did it.
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What we covered in this episode
- Starting out on the VC path
- What Kyle loved about working in VC
- Having a near death experience
- How he changed his life after
- Deciding to become a digital nomad
- Starting Gravity to solve his own problem
- What Gravity is for non-technical folks
- Pricing, should you go cheap or upstream?
- Using Twitter and SEO for customer acquisition
- Kyle’s thoughts on single focus vs small bets
- Kyle’s new AI project
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