At Bootstrapped Giants, we're making bootstrapped entrepreneurship the norm, not the exception. While others focus on venture-backed unicorns or lifestyle businesses, we're building the go-to resource for ambitious founders who want to grow profitable companies using their own revenue.
We're part of Gateway X, a venture studio founded by Jesse Pujji after he bootstrapped Ampush to $30M+ in revenue and realized bootstrapped companies could be much bigger than most people think. Now Gateway X conceives and scales multiple companies simultaneously while open-sourcing the proven playbooks.
When Jesse partnered with Andrew Warner—who had also bootstrapped his company to $30M+ and later founded Mixergy to interview founders from Y Combinator, Airbnb, and Dropbox—they saw an opportunity to transform how entrepreneurs think about bootstrapping. Together, they're scaling Bootstrapped Giants from newsletter to full media and education platform, giving ambitious founders the resources they never had.
Since starting in May 2024, we grew our audience to 25k subscribers, revenue to $500k (from $0), and we’ve done it profitably from Day 1 (bootstrapped with sponsorships). We have more demand than we can handle, and want to go from our products impacting 1000s of bootstrapped founders and operators to +100,000. The time is now to add an entrepreneurial, generalist to the business to pair with Andrew.
Imagine it's 18 months from now. Bootstrapped Giants has become the epicenter of bootstrapped entrepreneurship, with 200,000+ founders turning to us daily for breakthrough insights and tactical wisdom. As Chief of Staff, you're operating like a COO - an architect and conductor who made this possible. You’ve built and operational engine that turns Andrew's entrepreneurial hustle into rigorous plans and successful execution. Your systems enable Andrew to spend 80% of his time doing what he does best (engaging audience/developing products), while the team operates with clockwork precision, and thousands of entrepreneurs build profitable companies using our playbooks. Success means "I'm bootstrapping it" becomes a badge of honor in the startup world, and Bootstrapped Giants is the reason why.