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 pathWhat Kyle loved about working in VCHaving a near death experienceListen to Kyle on Indie HackersHow he changed his life afterDeciding to become a digital nomadStarting Gravity to solve his own problemWhat Gravity is for non-technical folksPricing, should you go cheap or upstream?Using Twitter and SEO for customer acquisitionKyle’s thoughts on single focus vs small betsKyle’s new AI project

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