How he made $256k with books while learning to write


Hi friend!

This week's deep dive is from June, but there are some updates! If you don't know Nathan Barry and Kit, check out this week's deep dive. Nathan has a fantastic story and is leading the way in building a scalable software company entirely bootstrapped.

Now, on to this week's deep dive.


Here's this week's deep dive:

Today, Nathan Barry is the CEO and founder of Kit. Kit helps creators who mean business and is primarily an email newsletter tool for creators. Today, Kit makes over $40 million in annual revenue, has over 80 full time employees around the world, and is completely bootstrapped.

There’s a lot of cool stories about how Kit became what it is today, but the story I want to focus on is Nathan’s journey from full time employee to creator.

This is a journey that Nathan was pretty public about on his blog and I spent about 20 hours going through all of it so you can potentially implement some of the strategies Nathan used to create his $256,000 business.


Helpful Content from Others:

Indie Hackers Product Page

Excited that Indie Hackers is on their way to building their own version of Product Hunt. Such a smart move and excited to see how this will help other bootstrapped founders launch.

Your best posts aren't always perfect

Matt Ragland's post on Linkedin this past week was so true. He mentioned that his best-performing video content was far from perfect, yet it's a huge favorite for everyone. If you're debating whether or not to post something online, do it and see what happens :)

Another newsletter you should check out:

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Growth In Reverse

Chenell Basilio

Join 38,471 creators getting smarter about building their audience. Each week, I spend 20+ hours reverse engineering how top creators grow their newsletters. You get the roadmap to unlock the growth strategies they used.

Thanks for reading!

Matt

P.S. Looking for recommendations on software or content? Check out my personal recs here. Some links in this email and in recommendations are affiliate links, so I do get some credit if you sign up for things with these links :)

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