#140: The Anti-Silicon Valley Playbook: How Genius Monkey Built a $100M Ad Tech Business on Their Own Terms – Seth Hassell and Clint Ethington

by PE Support | Apr 17, 2025

  Seth Hassell and Clint Ethington are the co-founders of Genius Monkey, a programmatic ad tech platform with proven targeting, tracking, and attribution for optimized results. Seth and Clint were childhood friends who worked on many business ventures before...

#139: Bootstrapped Founder is Getting Ready for the AI Wave at $20M ARR – Shalin Jain

by PE Support | Apr 10, 2025

Shalin Jain is the founder and CEO of HappyFox, a successful bootstrapped company that provides modern help desk management software for customer service, support, and IT management organizations. Shalin and his small team in India built many successful products from...

#138: Acquired by Strategic Buyer Just 2 Years After Launch – Brian Kesselman

by PE Support | Apr 3, 2025

  Brian Kesselman is cofounder and now CRO of Skematic, a compliance management and workflow software for financial services firms. Brian was a lawyer for major financial services companies who helped manage internal compliance in this highly regulated...

#136: Bootstrapper Has Big Exit and Un-Retires to Build 2nd SaaS Success – Brian Dosal

by PE Support | Mar 20, 2025

  Brian Dosal was the founder and CEO of BrightGauge, a software company he bootstrapped and grew to almost $10M ARR with his brother before successfully selling the company in 2019. BrightGauge was a business analytics and dashboard for key metrics for the...

#133: Bootstrapper Sells School Fundraising Platform to PE Investors – Howard Gottlieb

by shawn | Feb 27, 2025

Howard Gottlieb started Read-A-Thon in 2012 as a reading-based fundraising platform that helped students raise money while boosting education. Their easy platform and simple fundraising approach created amazing results. The Read-a-Thon business grew steadily and...