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Alexander Yumashev and the trouble with saving time
He built Jitbit to work for himself, kept answering customer tickets and never stopped writing code. Now AI is speeding up the part of the job Alexander Yumashev liked most.
Rob Walling
Rob Walling is the godfather of bootstrapped SaaS - a serial entrepreneur who has started six companies (five bootstrapped), sold Drip in an 8-figure acquisition to Leadpages, co-founded MicroConf (the original community for bootstrapped B2B SaaS founders), and launched TinySeed, a category-leading accelerator that has invested in 230+ companies with a 43% millionaire rate among exited founders. He hosts 'Startups for the Rest of Us' (800+ episodes, 15M+ downloads), has published five best-selling books, and champions the idea that a sustainable, founder-owned company beats the VC treadmill every time.