Hey folks, hope your Q3 and Q4 is off to a good start.

We just wrapped up Founder 500 in Austin, Texas.

Hundreds of Bootstrap founders showed up.

It was an amazing time.

I loved meeting so many of you.

This interview today is a recording from that session, which you're going to love,

because now we have visuals, we have the founder teaching,

and I made every single speaker include their revenue graphs and real artifacts in

their presentations. Without further ado, let's jump in.

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So please welcome to the stage, Ari Salafia.

Thank you so much. It's pleasure to be with you all today. What a great event so far. It's my hope for you today that you're going to hear my story. I'm going to keep it really real with you. And I hope that you find me afterwards. We talk about what's working in your business, what's not maybe, and we all just make some really

great connections here going forward. So thanks for your time. We're going to jump right in.

I'm going to share with you the story of tax taker, how we have been competing with $1 million

in funding versus my competitors, $100 million in funding, and how, I don't know,

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