Boast: Community Built to $20 million Revenue

Lloyed Lobo, Boast, Consulting

Lloyed Lobo believes anyone could have founded Boast, a company designed to help businesses secure R&D tax credits. However, when asked about why he built it to tens of millions in revenue when others didn’t, he attributes it to community.

Lloyed cultivated a network of entrepreneurs through local meetups and a significant annual conference, many of whom became Boast clients. He details his community-building journey in his book, “From Grassroots to Greatness,” and in our interview.

Lloyed Lobo

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Lloyed Lobo is the founder of Boast, which helps companies find and claim their R&D tax credits. And the author of From Grassroots To Greatness, the book that explains how he built Boast by building a community and teaches others how to create their own communities.

Andrew Warner: Hey there freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses and joining me as somebody who I thought I wouldn’t see again, Lloyd Lobo is a past Mixergy interviewee. We talked about how he built up his company boast.

Um. As a service that helps companies get their R and D tax, whatever’s back. And he built an incredible business on it. We’ll talk a little bit about it here. Don’t worry. I won’t forget that. I moved to Austin around the time he did. And I said, great, we’re going to be friends. We were chatting by text. I met his wife, got to know his family, and then he took off.

And he said, look, honestly, I, my wife said, just stop working. Just take time off. And he did. So when he hit me up and said that he wrote a book, I thought, all right, Lloyd’s going to write a book in poetry. And I don’t know why,...

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