His Chrome Extension Just Got $60k Offer, He Said No, Now 400k Users, $40k ARR

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Link management service URL Shortener

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0:00.0	Come on, man.
0:00.9	So wait, why have you been so, why are you being so much away for free?
0:03.8	Does it make you nervous to ask for money?
0:07.0	Yeah, I think that's kind of, you know, the problem that a lot of people have.
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0:42.4	gitlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Tim Leland. He's the creator of t.l.L.Y, URL
0:51.1	shortener and link management tool. His goal is simple. Make creating short links a one-click process.
0:55.9	This led him to create the URL browser extension that makes it easy to create, share,
0:59.6	and track these URLs. Currently, the company has over 10 million short URLs created and
1:04.2	tracked, sorry, and over 100 million clicks across those links. The link shortener extension has over
1:09.0	400,000 active users.
1:11.0	It's an affordable URL that allows users to brand, track, and share their short URLs.
1:15.8	Tim, you're ready to take us to the top?
1:17.9	Sure.
1:18.8	All right, everyone thought Bitley won this space.
1:20.9	What mousetrap did you build that made you steal market share here?
1:25.2	Yeah, that's a great question.
1:28.7	You know, Bentley's been around for a long time and definitely still probably the most
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