Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home, Google Anti-trust, and More

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Episode 521 is a roundtable episode where Rob brings on a couple of guests to talk through topics today that relate to bootstrapped and mostly bootstrapped startup founders. Today, we have Tracy Osborn and Einar Vollset joining us, as we talk through a potential impending recession, the Google anti-trust suit, Dropbox moving to permanent work from home, as well as a handful of other topics. The topics we cover [04:03] What do the revenue trends look like in 6-7 months from now? [13:36] Google anti-trust suit [19:23] Dropbox remote offices [27:29] SPACs and why it's so hard to go public in the US [39:35] A warning about Glassdoor Links from the show The 99 Investor Problem U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly Dropbox will let all employees work from home permanently as it turns its offices into WeWork-like 'collaborative spaces' The TinySeed Investment Thesis A Warning About Glassdoor Tracy Osborn | Twitter Einar Vollset | Twitter If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by clicking the link and sharing what you learned. Click here to share your number one takeaway from the episode. If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you'd like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe & Review: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode of Startups for the Rest of Us. I am your host, Rob Walling. Each week on this show, we cover topics related to building and growing startups using an ambitious yet a sustainable approach. We're not willing to sacrifice our health or our relationships to grow our company, and we view relentless execution and a long-term mindset as things that we value. And this is episode 521. Speaking of long-term
0:24.1	mindset, we've been doing this show for over 10 years. And today, we are tackling some news
0:30.2	stories. This is a startup roundtable episode where I bring on a couple guests and we talk
0:36.1	through topics today that relate to bootstrapped
0:38.8	and mostly bootstrapped startup founders. Today I have Tracy Osborne joining me. Tracy's been on the show
0:44.7	many times. She is the program manager at Tiny Seed. So we work together on a day-to-day basis.
0:50.5	And she is the founder of a startup called Wedding Lovely that she worked on pre-Tiny Seed
0:56.5	and shut it down shortly before joining us.
0:59.0	My other guest is Aynar Volset.
1:01.7	He is my co-founder in Tiny Seed, so it really is a trio of Tiny Seed folks here today.
1:06.9	And Aynar co-founded Tiny Seed with me.
1:09.3	He does a lot of the investor relations work, works in the accelerator as well.
1:13.1	And he also founded Discretion Capital, where he helps SaaS founders who are doing a million dollars or more in ARR sell for revenue multiples.
1:23.3	And he's been on the sell side of SaaS for quite some time.
1:27.8	So it's a good panel discussion today.
1:30.4	We cover topics ranging from is a recession impending.
1:33.7	We talk about the Google antitrust
1:35.4	and how that may or may not impact our types of companies.
1:38.9	Talk about work from home, Dropbox going to permanent work from home,
1:42.1	and a handful of other topics.
1:44.2	Before I dive into that, I got some good feedback, both constructive and some positive
1:48.5	feedback on Tiny Seed Tales.
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