Bootstrapping to $3.5m ARR from YouTuber to Founder - Sam King, Flick

Sam King is the founder of Flick, a tool for managing and growing your social media, doing over $3.5m ARR fully bootstrapped. Sam has taken a unique path into bootstrapping, first being a YouTuber, then running an agency before flipping it into a SaaS with Flick. There is an hour long extended version of this show available on the Indie Bites membership, head to indiebites.com/membership to sub.

What we covered in this episode:

• Starting out as a YouTuber
• Pivoting from YouTuber to starting an agency
• Pivoting the agency to start a SaaS
• Marketing Sam used to grow Flick
• Affiliate marketing
• Building an MVP
• Hiring challenges

Recommendations

• Book: Shoe Dog
• Podcast: Diary of a CEO
• Indie Hacker: Baretto

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