#37: Hush! The grown-ups are talking.

In this episode, we discuss tax credits, branding and positioning, JitBit, John Carmack, Oculus, Zuckerberg, young people running companies, VR, box.com, Snappy, marketing tracking software, naming projects, and growth hackers vs. bootstrappers.

• Rob Walling – HitTail
• Section 199 Domestic Production Tax Credit
• Chasing Product interview with Alex Yumashev – JitBit
• John Carmack
• Masters of Doom by David Kushner
• Oculus
• Carmack’s 2012 QuakeCon keynote
• Carmack thanks Notch for inspiration to jump to Oculus
• Notch’s blog post on the Oculus/Facebook situation
• Michael Abrash’s presentation on presence and VR
• Palmer Luckey on Reddit

 

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Creators and Guests

Host

Andrey Butov

Founder of Antair

Host

Ian Landsman

Founder HelpSpot, LaraJobs, and Laracon Online.

Producer

Dave Hicking

OG podcast producer on Bootstrapped, Mostly Technical, Cheese & Weather, and Clock Radio Speakers

What is Bootstrapped?

This is the archive of Bootstrapped.fm. A seminal Bootstrapper-oriented podcast started in 2013 by Ian Landsman and Andrey Butov. The first iteration ran for 104 episodes. In 2019, Steve McLeod took over for another 139 episodes. We've set this podcast to release order so you can experience it as it was initially presented.