How does a startup get to their first 1000 YouTube subscribers and leverage YouTube to grow a SaaS business? In this article, I share our journey for other founders considering YouTube as an organic growth channel for their startup.

The interwebs will give entrepreneurs a lot of advice when it comes to raising money, but much of this literature is written by investors rather than founders, and some popular resources are from a decade ago. My cofounder (Eric Lu) and I raised a $1.7M seed round for our

In 2017, I left Google to work with a friend and former co-worker on a startup idea. We named [https://www.kapwing.com/blog/why-we-chose-an-onomatopoeia/] the company Hot Barber and bought the domain hotbarber.com. For two and a half months, we worked long hours to get the business off

My cofounder and I both worked at Google for two years as Associate Product Managers. Then, we started a content creation website called Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com] together. When raising Kapwing’s Series A, I got the opportunity to pitch to Keith Rabois, a GP at Founders Fund. He

Heroku recently exposed our private database information because of a serious security vulnerability in their email service. I wanted to share this security hole with other developers and Heroku customers who might be affected. We’ve generally had a great experience with Heroku and have been customers since we started