Episode 839 The Journey Growing Help Scout to $35M ARR

Startups For the Rest of Us by Rob Walling

Jun 30, 202600:36:15Business

What happens when a bootstrapper at heart raises $28 million and spends the next decade living with that decision? In this episode, Rob Walling sits down with Nick Francis, the co-founder of Help Scout, to walk through t...

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