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Founder Kyle

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Founder Kyle

@FounderKyle

📖 Christian founder, technical, 0-1 generalist 🚀 Sold my bootstrapped startup to @DuckDuckGo 👪 Father of 3 young kids 📩 Started a Hold Co to buy/build SaaS

Blacksburg, VA

Joined April 2012

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Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Apr 11, 2024
I'm excited that I can finally share that my last startup, Removaly, was acquired by @DuckDuckGo! 🎉 -- it was also their first ever acquisition 🙌 What a whirlwind of emotions. It’s been wild having something acquired that started out as a small bootstrapped side project,
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Aug 21, 2025
Replying to @andrew__reed
"Unfortunately I never received access so I couldn't review it. I just went ahead and requested access again though so if you're able to add me I'd be happy to take a look."
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Oct 16, 2025
Apparently if your app has 100 users that puts you in the top 10% of apps. The bar is low folks. Start today.
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Aug 16, 2025
Alex Hormozi: I have nothing to sell you. Also Alex Hormozi:
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Dec 2, 2024
Unpopular opinion: AI isn't that good at coding yet.
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Jul 26, 2024
Welp... anyone want to build a Stripe competitor with me? 👀
Lemon Squeezy
@lemonsqueezy
Jul 26, 2024
✨ Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy ✨ Woohoo! We made a sale! 🥳 We're excited to announce that @stripe has acquired @lemonsqueezy to help build a global merchant of record solution. 3 years ago, we set out to make selling digital products easy-peasy. With your help, we've done
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Jan 13, 2025
Growth hack: actually finish the project you started.
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Jul 2, 2025
Replying to @Suhail
Imagine being smart enough to slip through interviews by multiple intelligent founders just to do this... Someone once wisely told me: if you're smart enough to cheat and get away with it, you're smart enough to actually do the work and succeed.
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Feb 27, 2025
Someone once told me that you should buy the most expensive house that you can afford (minimum 20% down & mortgage payment less than 1/4 your take home pay) and the cheapest car that you can stand. At the time that's what I did and I have not regretted it since. Feels weird
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Sep 24, 2025
How to kill an acquisition deal: Post private DMs to get engagement.
Pat Walls
@thepatwalls
Sep 23, 2025
ladies and gentlemen this is why you should shoot your shot now there's another billion dollar company in my DMs shooting THEIR shot what a time to be alive
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Aug 4, 2025
Tell me you're struggling without telling me you're struggling...
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Jul 31, 2024
Replying to @cliftonsellers
🤣
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Oct 13, 2025
App launched. 🎉 Consider this my first marketing week...
Founder Kyle
@FounderKyle
Oct 20, 2025
Being an entrepreneur is tough. IMO being an entrepreneur & a Christian is even tougher. I'm thinking about getting together a group of specifically Christian entrepreneurs to talk & pray through our businesses and our lives. Would anyone be interested in something like that?