Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick
Sam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken a unique path into bootstrapping, first being a YouTuber, then running an agency before flipping it into a SaaS with Flick. There is an hour long extended version of this show available on the Indie Bites membership, head to indiebites.com/membership to sub.
What we covered in this episode:
- Starting out as a YouTuber
- Pivoting from YouTuber to starting an agency
- Pivoting the agency to start a SaaS
- Marketing Sam used to grow Flick
- Affiliate marketing
- Building an MVP
- Hiring challenges
Recommendations
- Book: Shoe Dog
- Podcast: Diary of a CEO
- Indie Hacker: Baretto
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