Pieter Levels is the famous/impressive example.
Lesser known founders I admire, worth stalking a bit:
- Fabrizio Rinaldi (Mailbrew) @linuz90
- Jordan Singer (Tricycle) @jsngr
- Rob Fitzpatrick (Mom test) @robfitz
- Dan Rowden (Ilo) @dr
- Jim Raptis (Brandbird)@draptis
I'm from India and a pretty legendary bootstrap hero from India is Sridhar Vembu of Zoho. People believe Zoho is worth $10B+, but what's most impressive is the team he built at Zoho -- high-school graduates from small towns in India. Their dev centers too, are in unlikely rural towns in India.
https://yourstory.com/2021/03/zo...https://www.zoho.com/blog/recrui...
@levelsio@jakub_piskor I'm new here and I had no idea who he was. Now I know, thank you! I can relate so much to what he writes in his blog articles, it's a really good read. I may have to buy his "MAKE" book now.
@levelsio@borisdalstein Yes, the Make book is great read! I can recommend it. Maybe you would find useful my latest product which I just launched today - Entrepreneur List. You can find here many others inspiring entrepreneurs.
I've always admired Douglas Englebart a great deal. Although not a boostrapper in today's sense, he envisioned something very different than his peers and manifested his vision through years of hard work.
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