#747 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS: With Special Guest Rob Walling

<p><br />#747 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress &amp; SaaS: With Special Guest Rob Walling</p> <p>The AI Robots Are Coming &amp; There's Disruption in The Air! With Special Guest Rob Walling</p> <p>Rob Walling has built and sold multiple SaaS companies, most recently Drip.</p> <p>He co-founded the most popular conference and community for ambitious, bootstrapped SaaS, called MicroConf.</p> <p>He wrote the book on how to bootstrap a startup, Start Small, Stay Small.</p> <p>And he started TinySeed, the first accelerator designed for SaaS bootstrappers.</p> <p>He has also invested in more than 55 startups, including WP Engine, CartHook, and SparkToro.</p> <p>https://robwalling.com/</p> <p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwalling/</p> <p>https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Main Questions For Interview</p> <p><br />#1 - Rob, are there any particular trends that you have observed in the bootstrap startup community in 2022 that you think are interesting?</p> <p><br />#2 - Have you come to any conclusions yourself connected to how you see Ai/ChatGPT is going to affect the bootstrap startup community over the next couple of years?</p> <p><br />#3 - Do you generally think it's getting easier or harder for a bootstrap SaaS to the $10,000 a month gross revenue barrier?</p> <p><br />#4 - You have invested directly in several WordPress SaaS; the most prominent has been WP Engine do you feel there is still a lot of opportunity in this WordPress space?</p> <p><br />#5 - If you go back to a time machine at the beginning of your career, what advice would you give yourself?</p> <p><br />#6 - Are there any books, websites, or online recourses that have helped you in your business development that you like to share with the audience?</p>