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I spent ten years trying to build the tool I wished existed when I was a kid making websites in my bedroom.
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We got rejected from Y Combinator the first time. Applied again and got in. Persistence is underrated.
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We bootstrapped for six years before raising venture capital. We wanted to make sure the product worked before scaling it.
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WordPress won because it was free not because it was good. We want to win because the product is actually great.