#747 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Rob Walling

The AI Robots Are Coming & There's Disruption in The Air! With Special Guest Rob Walling

Rob Walling has built and sold multiple SaaS companies, most recently Drip.

He co-founded the most popular conference and community for ambitious, bootstrapped SaaS, called MicroConf.

He wrote the book on how to bootstrap a startup, Start Small, Stay Small.

And he started TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for SaaS bootstrappers.

He has also invested in more than 55 startups, including WP Engine, CartHook, and SparkToro.

https://robwalling.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwalling/

https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Main Questions For Interview

#1 - Rob, are there any particular trends that you have observed in the bootstrap startup community in 2022 that you think are interesting?

#2 - Have you come to any conclusions yourself connected to how you see Ai/ChatGPT is going to affect the bootstrap startup community over the next couple of years?

#3 - Do you generally think it's getting easier or harder for a bootstrap SaaS to the $10,000 a month gross revenue barrier?

#4 - You have invested directly in several WordPress SaaS; the most prominent has been WP Engine do you feel there is still a lot of opportunity in this WordPress space?

#5 - If you go back to a time machine at the beginning of your career, what advice would you give yourself?

#6 - Are there any books, websites, or online recourses that have helped you in your business development that you like to share with the audience?