Life after an exit with The Boostrapped Founder, Arvid Kahl

Make Lemonade

Today JR and James joined by Arvid Kahl, who previously built and sold his SaaS, Feedback Panda, for a life changing amount of money. From then Arvid has made it his mission to help other indie founders build a successful bootstrapped business, through his books Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur and also his weekly blog, newsletter and podcast, The Bootstrapped Founder.

In this episode we talk all about how Arvid motivates himself to show up to write content every week, the economics behind a creator business and why he doesn’t just build another SaaS.

Timestamps:

03:49 Arvid's backstory
06:25 Writing Zero to Sold
11:54 Life after exiting your company
13:23 What's it like writing a book
16:41 Thinking in decades
19:05 Would Arvid start another SaaS?
22:42 Hiring external help
24:32 Recording interviews vs solo podcasts
28:25 The business side of The Bootstrapped Founder
34:55 Finding purpose post-acquisition
36:51 Funding vs Bootstrapping
43:01 Arvid's thoughts on the Great Gumroad Migration
48:19 Arvid's reading list
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