E1021: Bubble Co-CEO & Co-Founder Emmanuel Straschnov built a no-code platform to empower the next generation of programmers, shares insights on bootstrapping to over 300k users, developing skills while scaling & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

0:53 Jason intros Bubble CEO Emmanuel Straschnov
4:25 Defining "no-code" and how Bubble differs from other no-code tools?
9:04 How much more efficient is Bubble than popular coding schools? How advanced do you have to be to learn Bubble?
14:16 Emmanuel shares Bubble's origin story and explains what Bubble unlocks for startups?
16:51 Emmanuel demos Bubble & explains notrealtwitter.com
21:17 What are some Bubble success stories?
26:12 Why did Emmanuel wait 7 years to raise their Seed Round?
29:23 Will no-code decrease the demand for developers over time?
33:26 What is Bubble making per user per year? What will that be in 5 years?
34:32 When did VCs take interest in Bubble?
39:43 How are Emmanuel's managerial skills developing as Bubble scales their team?
46:13 What is the core beachhead for Bubble?
48:11 Is there a no-code education platform in the works?

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1:04.6	paying developers a king's ransom were just not competitive there aren't enough
1:08.4	developers in the world all of that complaining all of that nonsense is ending because of a movement called no-code and people are
1:17.9	combining that no-code movement with the lean startup movement which is a movement to use the most efficient product or service,
1:27.7	the most efficient demo, what we call an MVP, minimum viable product, to answer questions about your product. So as an example, if you
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