This founder built a profitable bot company from Siberia

Alex Kistenev, Standuply, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, European Founder, International Founders, Messaging, SaaS (software as a service)

Today I have a guest for you who has managed to build a chat bot company from Siberia!

Alex Kistenev is the co-founder of Standuply which is a bot that runs meetings for you within Slack.

I want to find out how he’s built this company without any funding and the clever way he’s getting users to sign up for it.

Alex Kistenev

Standuply

Alex Kistenev is the co-founder of Standuply which is a bot that runs meetings for you within Slack.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of ambitious upstarts. And check me out, I’m wearing a jacket into the office here today. Alex, the reason I’m wearing my jacket is [inaudible 00:00:18] by the way. I usually on Thursday don’t record interviews, but I said, “You know, I work a little bit from home which I don’t love doing, but it was a nice morning. And then I’ll take one of the local bikes.” I don’t even have to pay to rent it. I pay an annual fee to be able to ride a Ford bike whenever I want. I said, “I’ll ride one of those into the office. I’ll make it in time.”

So I get out there, I look for one, I couldn’t freaking find one. I say, “Great. This is San Francisco. We have jumped bikes,” you know, the ones that everyone hates because they’re dockless. I’ll get...

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