Case Study: Bootstrapping a web builder from Moscow

Nikita Obukhov, Tilda, Bootstrapping, International Founders, SaaS (software as a service)

Joining me is an entrepreneur coming at us straight from Moscow in Russia. Nikita Obukhov is a guy who realized it’s really hard to build websites. We need to make it easier.

And so he created a company called Tilda. It’s a website builder that doesn’t require you to use any code.

I want to find out how he bootstrapped it.

Nikita Obukhov

Tilda

Nikita Obukhov is the founder of Tilda, a website builder that doesn’t use any code.

Andrew: 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 I do it for an audience of real entrepreneurs who are listening in, learning, and then eventually putting into action and coming back here to do an interview about how they built their phenomenal companies. Joining me is an entrepreneur coming at us straight from Moscow in Russia. He is the founder of a company that . . . well, he’s a guy who realized, you know what, it’s really hard to build websites. We need to make it easier. And so he created a company called Tilda. It’s a website builder that doesn’t require you to use any code.

His name is Nikita Obukhov. And we’re going to find out how he built this up thanks to two phenomenal companies, the first kind of competitive. We talked about this before the interview started, Nikita. But he was okay with it. The company is...

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