The Fire Report l Know Your Worth. Then Add Tax.

Published 8 days ago • 5 min read
Issue 030 Forward this email to share the fire: https://bobbie-racette.kit.com/ Good morning, When I closed my first round of funding, I had already bootstrapped Virtual Gurus to $1.8M in revenue. The business was profitable. It was scaling. By every metric that investors say they care about, it was working. I still got told no. One hundred and seventy times. And for a long time, I did what a lot of us do. I made myself smaller to try to make the yes easier. Don't talk about being Indigenous....

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