ShareFile: The Giant Bootstrapper You Never Heard Of – with Jesse Lipson

Jesse Lipson, ShareFile, B2B, Bootstrapping, Hiring, SaaS (software as a service)

A friend of mine introduced me to a profitable file sharing site that’s crushing it while hardly getting any press attention. So I invited the founder to teach us how he quietly got millions of users. The company is all bootstrapped and has NO free users. Only paid accounts.

Joining me is Jesse Lipson, founder of ShareFile, which allows companies to set up a password-protected area for clients where they can securely exchange files that are too large or confidential to be sent via email.

Jesse Lipson

ShareFile

Jesse Lipson is currently the CEO at ShareFile, the bootstrapped, secure file exchange company that spun out of Lipson’s web development business, NovelProjects.

 

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