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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Queen of Community Rosie Sherry Reveals Secrets of Engagement, Growth, Monetization

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Rosie previously bootstrapped Ministry of Testing, a community for software testers, to 7 figures.

Now she leads the community over at Indie Hackers and is building up Rosieland, a community for community builders, on the side.

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I made a bit of money along the way.

0:02.9

We're talking like maybe $100 here or there for advertising, like testing companies

0:08.9

who come to us and wanting to advertise.

0:12.2

But, you know, nothing significant, nothing that would really cover the costs.

0:17.8

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interviews three weeks earlier from founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting. Like Eric Wan,

0:47.3

18 months before he took Zoom public. We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

0:54.2

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

0:57.6

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

1:00.0

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

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