Repeat Founders Are Built Different: Making Multiple Million Dollar Companies in Both SaaS and Agencyland

In the Pit with Cody Schneider | Marketing | Growth | Startups

This episode my homie Damien drops knowledge about all the different businesses he's built. Video CMS for universities, agencies, messaging APIs, along with a bunch of other randoms.

It's gold.

He's bootstrapped and taken VC blood money. You'll get takes on how VC creates mental freedom to focus on rush to scale while bootstrapping gives you personal freedom but requires so much discipline.

He's now building SaaS developer tools and goes deep into what Cloudflare is doing and the countless business opportunities he's seeing around this tech.

Listen now to get an education you can't get anywhere else. For free. Remember who your plug is when you make it big.

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Key takeaway timestamps:

(05:38) Targeted cold emails in 2015 vs now

(15:44) Focus and specialize for bank account brr

(16:24) Early adoption leads to advantage, be first

(23:44)Embrace technology changes for success.

(36:49) Opportunity for AI-powered marketing agencies.

(42:45) Character AI for organizational counseling

(49:07) Finding ideal customer and then building products for them

Entities Mentioned:

Dev tools, SaaS, Developer tools, CSV import, Web scraper, ChatGPT, AI agents, Social media marketing, SEO agencies, Clip production, Video agency, Branding, Trust, Marketing automation, Content analysis