Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Exit from Saudi Arabia

Autobia Co-Founder CEO Emad Daghreri bootstrapped his first company and took it public in the junior stock exchange in Saudi Arabia. He is now doing a second company. This interview focuses on his bootstrapping to exit story with the first one.

Sramana Mitra: Emad, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born? Raised? What kind of background?

Emad Daghreri: My name is Emad Daghreri. I am a founder from Saudi Arabia. I was born in a small village called Daghrer. It matches my last name; it is a privilege to have a village that is named under my last name. I spent the first half of my life there until high school. Then I had the privilege to be accepted in King Fahd University in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which is one of the best engineering universities in the kingdom. I graduated with a Computer Science degree. I was lucky to start my first startup at the end of the fifth year of the university. That was an amazing start of my journey as an entrepreneur in general.

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Adam Robinson: I sold the first one, which was called Robly email marketing in 2021.

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Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Again (and Again): Adam Robinson, CEO of Retention.com and RB2B (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Very good. So, this one is at $1.5 million already?

 Adam Robinson: $1.7 million within nineteen weeks. It was very fast. It was just five people.

Sramana Mitra: So that means this year is going to close at probably $5-$6 million, right?

Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Again (and Again): Adam Robinson, CEO of Retention.com and RB2B (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about your LinkedIn strategy a bit more. So you said you have a follower count of 40K, or more?

Adam Robinson: It’s over 90K now. It went from 20K to 40K in a week last September.

Sramana Mitra: So you have 90K followers, presumably mostly B2B staff people.

Adam Robinson: Almost entirely. There’s a great analysis by this guy. There’re two ways you can grow a LinkedIn audience.