On June 5, 2015, Grokability incorporated. It has been a wild, crazy ride with a shit-ton of very hard work, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. I couldn’t have imagined where we are now back then, and sometimes I still can’t believe it.
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We made a real, sustainable business, based on our open source product, taking zero outside money. No VC, no angels, nothing. 8 employees strong now, and I’m so very proud of what we’ve built.
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Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do something. If a dumbass college dropout like me could pull this off, you definitely can.
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We have real benefits, real quality of life policies, and we pull in over 1.7 million in ARR doing it. You *can* make an ethical, capital-G Good company if you want to.
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It doesn’t have to start big. I started by adding a PayPal button on our project website (after would not stop nagging me to do it). Who would pay for a free product? Our first sale came in 3 days later. Then another, and another.
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Best part: Some of those first signups are *still* customers.
It was all manual provisioning back then. I had to batch deployments since it was all by hand. Then we built an auto-deployment script (which did not work the first time lol)
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ok, I'm not ready to leave my current place yet, but this sounds like a thoughtful place to work! congrats on building this up!
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