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

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?