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Founder Stories & Bootstrapping
Unfiltered stories of building SaaS — bootstrapped, funded, and everything in between.
What we dig into
Conversations in this track
- Bootstrapping vs. raising: the real trade-offs
- Lessons from near-death moments and pivots
- Building lean teams and staying profitable
- What founders wish they’d known earlier
Episodes in this track
Unfiltered builder stories — solo, bootstrapped, and everywhere in between. Zapdigits’ Malith Gamage distils the whole track into two words: do not die.
Native episode · AuTrans
Tobiloba Sulaimon on Building AuTrans — Transcription Optimized for the African Voice
A self-taught Lagos developer on going ‘African first,’ resisting scope creep, and shipping a SaaS solo.
Read & listen →Native episode · Zapdigits
Malith Gamage on Building a Privacy-First Client Reporting SaaS
Starting as an internal Stripe dashboard, pivoting to agencies, and making white labeling a baseline feature rather than an upsell.
Read & listen →Native episode · Taproot
Tom Girgash on Building Taproot, the Memory Layer for Solo AI Operators
Local-first AI memory, MCP cross-tooling, the mom test that fixed his messaging, and why distribution — not code — is the hardest problem a solo SaaS founder has.
Read & listen →Native episode · Stellarcast
Somya Goyal on Getting Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini
Why AI citation is a different game from Google ranking, the monitor–diagnose–execute–prove loop that closes the gap, and why most brands have never read what AI says about them.
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SaaS Growth & Go-To-Market
How real SaaS companies find their first customers, nail positioning, and build a repeatable go-to-market motion.
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Product-Led Growth & Onboarding
Activation, onboarding, and the product experiences that turn signups into paying, sticky users.
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SaaS Marketing & Demand Gen
Content, SEO, paid, and community tactics that fill the pipeline without burning the budget.
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SaaS SEO & Content
Jeremy’s home turf: organic strategy built for software companies and the AI-search era.
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Churn, Retention & Customer Success
Keeping the customers you worked so hard to win, and growing revenue from your existing base.
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