From $0 to 70,000+ B2B users without VC money

​Fireside chat with Yury Sokolov

​Yury Sokolov is the founder of Twelve Data, a financial market data API used by 70,000+ developers and companies worldwide. He built the company without venture funding, growing it entirely on revenue.

Before Twelve Data, Yury worked in quantitative trading. He's also an angel investor at SpaceX and Boom Supersonic and venture scout.

​What topics will be discussed:

• ​Finding your first paying customers with no marketing budget

• ​Setting prices and knowing when to change them
  Bootstrapping vs. raising VC: trade-offs and when each makes sense

• ​Growing on your own revenue without hitting a ceiling

• ​Deploying AI agents across the business: where they replace headcount and where they don't

• ​Who to hire first and how to build a distributed team

• ​Funding new ventures from the profits of your main business

• ​The most expensive mistakes and what Yury would do differently

​For whom this event:

• ​Early-stage founders who want to grow without outside capital

• ​Anyone deciding between bootstrapping and raising a round

• ​Developers and product people planning to launch their own product

• ​Founders who already have revenue and want to scale profitably

​See you at Haos!