Arvid Kahl 0:00Today, I’m talking to Jack Ellis, the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy conscious web analytics business that I personally use for a lot of my web properties. The company that Jack co-founded with Paul Jarvis competes
People would rather sift through fake AI results than see yet another ad. Something is happening in advertising, and the creator economy is affected greatly. The shift towards trust-based advertising is a wake-up call for founders and creat
Arvid Kahl 0:00Hello and welcome to The Bootstrapped Founder. Today, I’m talking to my dear old friend, Fatih Kadir Akin or FKA for short. We discussed the unexpected journey of building a successful business out of a simple idea. Fatih sha
When AI researchers Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin tried to explain generative AI to journalists in early 2022 —when just a few hundred researchers and early adopters were toying with the new tech and long before it became mainstream— journa
“As an entrepreneur, you need someone you’ve been through shit with already” — and that’s exactly why Dagobert and Lucie are the perfect power couple co-founders. I chatted with @dagobertrenouf about overcoming struggle, growing a business
Are you getting tired of ChatGPT’s endless regurgitation of SEO-optimized articles and social media posts? Even ChatGPT is getting tired of that. Too many people use the trendy AI as a text generator. Too few use it as a highly capable writ
Few people had an impact on my founder journey as Dr. Sherry Walling — and she didn’t even know. But I got to tell her! We discussed burnout, imposter syndrome, and stress among founders. Sherry explained the need for mental health professi
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis week, I got on my first post-COVID trip and headed to Denver, Colorado for MicroConf 2023. It. Was. Awesome. Unsurprisingly, being in the same room with 250 other bootstrapped SaaS founders is one of the nerdies
When it comes to building an “owned audience,” nothing beats an email list. Louis Nicholls is a newsletter expert, and he shared with me how to monetize a list, how to grow it reliably, and why cold emails are often done spectacularly wrong
Everybody in the indie founder community is talking about ChatGPT. Some founders discover how powerful it is as a writing tool, others have it build their products, and some entrepreneurs are even building businesses on top of OpenAI’s conv