Software Engineering Unlocked

Bootstrapping Netlify to a multi-million-dollar company

Software Engineering Unlocked

Show Notes

In this episode, I talk to Matt Biilmann. Matt Matt is the CEO and co-founder of Netlify – the modern platform for high-performance websites and apps. Netlify has around 150 employees and an estimate of over 20 million dollars of annual revenue. Matt also coined the term Jamstack, which stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup.

We talk about: - his journey bootstrapping Netlify to a million-dollar company - how he got the vision for the JAM-stack, - how it feels to grow a company from a two-person adventure to over 150 employees, - how he envisions the collaborative software development of the future, - and the acquisition of FeaturePeek.

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