Best of Bootstrapping: Developer Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $20M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. NLP Cloud Founder CTO Julien Salinas provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are

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From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of the customers are in the $10,000 range? Julien Salinas: Among our paid customers, it’s 10%. Maybe a bit less. Sramana Mitra: How much of this is what you call major account customers? Julien Salinas: I don’t have the exact number today, but I think it’s something like 150 to 200

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From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Your customers are all developers? Julien Salinas: Less and less, but still most of them. Sramana Mitra: Is there a specific genre of developers? Are they developing a particular platform? Julien Salinas: Initially, it was mainly machine learning engineers that use Python. All the machine learning engineers are Python developers. They taught me

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From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 1)

Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. Julien provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?