Todoist has made more than $100 million in total revenue, which isn't very interesting because many others have reached this number. What's interesting is that we did it in our unique way:
β Fully bootstrapped. Customers have supported us since the beginning, and we've used only our revenues to improve things further.
β Complete independence. Since we are customer-supported, no one tells us what we can or can't do.
β Remote-first. But not only remote-first, we've hired super talented people worldwide who never went to Ivy League schools or worked at Google. Many of the early people who joined Doist have seen a 10x increase in compensation as we've scaled Doist.
β Europe mixed with US mentality. We've achieved this by working 40-hour workweeks and taking 40 days of vacation per year. We only work on weekdays. The three-member CXO team has 8 kids, and we got them while we scaled Doist.
The most critical personal lesson I've learned is that you can do much more than you think. I came from a refugee background and started a real school in the 4th grade. Starting and running a tech company was not even plausible while growing up. But here we are! So start learning, growing, and building! You got this ππ