The Bootstrapped Founder

Arvid Kahl

Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.

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The Bootstrapped Founder

Episodes (439)

Yesterday 436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off
Fri Feb 6th 435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software
Jan 30th 434: Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)

The Bootstrapped Founder

Feb 13, 2026
17 minutes
15 MB

What happens when the seeds you planted eighteen months ago finally start breaking through? In this episode, Arvid shares how Podscan's long-term investments are compounding—from programmatic SEO earning backlinks from major publications to an OP3 integration improving data fidelity across millions of podcasts. He also talks about how agentic coding tools helped him migrate to OpenSearch, a system he never would have touched on his own, and the semi-automated 10-80-10 workflows that are freeing him up for higher-leverage work. This episode of The Bootstraped Founder is sponsored by Podscan.fm The blog post: ht...

The Bootstrapped Founder

436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off

Arvid Kahl

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