Building a "Bootstrapped Giant" in DTC, Productized Services, & More with Jesse Pujji (#146)
This week Jim is joined by Jesse Pujji, CEO of GatewayX and co-founder of Growth Assistant, Unbloat, and more. He has bootstrapped an Agency to $25M in sales, a productized-service to 8-figures, a DTC startup to 7-figures and a SaaS. He shares his playbook for how to grow a self-funded startup.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE
- What is Bootstrapping
- Where you go wrong as a bootstrapped business
- How Jesse would bootstrap an agency, a DTC company and a SaaS company
- How to work within your zone of genius
- How to leverage your unfair advantage
- And more.
Resources:
- Jesse Pujji Twitter / X
- Bootstrapped Giants
- GatewayX
- Jim Huffman website
- Jim's Twitter
- GrowthHit
- The Growth Marketer's Playbook
Additional episodes you might enjoy:
- Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
- Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
- How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
- Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
- How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)