Jesse Lipson @ ShareFile: The Solo Founder Who Bootstrapped an Enterprise SaaS App

Web Masters

English - May 16, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes - 85.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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As the ShareFile name implies, it's a software for sharing, storing, and otherwise managing files in the cloud. It's not a particularly unique service. In this episode, you'll hear ShareFile's founder, Jesse Lipson, mention some familiar competitors -- companies like Dropbox and Box and YouSendIt. Though, to be fair, in 2005, when the company launched. these types of services weren't so common. Still, cloud file management isn't exactly an obscure niche, meaning, there are a decent number of companies playing in the space, which makes for a challenging, competitive environment.

However, despite that challenging environment, Jesse managed to bootstrap his company to an impressive exit over the course of six years.

Bootstrapping enterprise SaaS apps isn't common. And it isn't easy, either. On this episode of Web Masters, we're going to hear how Jesse did it.

For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.