Robert Vis (MessageBird): Bootstrapped & Profitable | TNW Conference 2017

Bootstrapped & Profitable Starting a company and raising funds seem to be one and the same thing nowadays. Companies are raising millions of dollars long before making a single dollar in profit. MessageBird's founder, Robert Vis, will talk about how he started a bootstrapped company worth 100+ million, how he's scaling it, and what he thinks is found in the bootstrapped-profitability DNA. Robert Vis FOUNDER & CEO MESSAGEBIRD Robert Vis is the founder and CEO at MessageBird, disrupting the trillion dollar communication and telecom markets. Prior to MessageBird, Vis was Co-owner and CEO at ZayPay.com. Primarily focused on driving Mobile Payments into 50+ countries enabling 1.5bln users to pay for virtual goods through their mobile phone. Sold to Mobile Interactive Group (MIG), later Velti (VELT Nasdaq), now mGage in 2011.