What Arvid Kahl thinks about startups
Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Arvid Kahl has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
↗Data Is the Only Moatthebootstrappedfounder.com 1st of 3 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe founders who succeed aren't the ones who never give up-they're the ones who know what to give up and when.
↗Don’t Give Up… Your Assumptionsthebootstrappedfounder.com 2nd of 2 in this piece