when i was in igcses, all my classmates used something called SaveMyExams

so i interviewed the founder

and found out how it actually got started (then got to 2.5 million monthly users now)

so Jamie Undrell started as a tutor

and he couldn't find any good resources for his students, so he began creating his own

at that point, there wasn't any funding, a team, or even a plan. it was just a problem he was facing every day that he was trying to solve for himself

and he was doing it so well that students started going around telling all their friends about it

so jamie starts putting these resources online, at first just on a basic website

and word of mouth just spreads it even further, without them even needing to spend a dollar on advertising

and although SaveMyExams is one of the giants now, there was never one moment of meteoric growth. rather just years of compounding, of building better resources, better SEO- building something actually durable

and fast forward 10 years, that bootstrapped company has over 2.5 million users every single month

but it's also one thing to hear a big number like that, and another to feel it

and as someone who's used SaveMyExams myself (and seen almost everyone else in my school using it), it is pretty incredible to see the impact jamie built over the last decade

all from what started as building a simple fix to his own problem

(ps if you want to hear the rest of the story, i've got the link to the full ep in the comments)