Raising Money as a 19 Year Old Founder Without Code - Campbell Baron | EP 05

In this episode, I interview Campbell Baron, founder and CEO of Montra. Campbell is 19 years old. He built the prototype for Montra on Bubble, raised money from investors, and is now building a world class team to take his product to the next level. For Montra, this involves transitioning away from a No Code stack to a more traditional development environment. Together, Campbell and I discuss how he got started with Montra, what it was like building Montra on Bubble, his decision to move away from No Code, raising money from investors, listening to user feedback, and a whole lot more. You can check out Montra and follow Campbell on twitter using the links below!
Montra: montra.co/
Montra is hiring! montra.co/careers
Follow Campbell on Twitter: / campbelljbaron
0:00 Introduction
1:05 What is Montra?
3:40: Finding a Cofounder and deciding on a tech stack
7:00: Why did Campbell build V1 of the product himself?
9:35 Raising money from investors
13:00 What were conversations with investors like?
16:28 Is Bubble really "No Code"?
17:40 Being a CEO vs a developer
20:00 Pushing the limits of what can be built on Bubble
24:44 Staying on Bubble long term
28:46 What can be built on Bubble?
31:10 Transitioning from no code to code
36:40 Listening to user feedback
40:09 Knowing which users to listen to
46:25 On being a 19 year old founder

[@harrison69]

Great episode!

[@jacobgershkovich]

Thanks!

[@fcredi]

Great interview! You both kept it interesting and engaging ;)

[@jacobgershkovich]

Thanks for watching Fady!

[@heyakshay_]

This is such an awesome video! Campbell is a genius!

[@jacobgershkovich]

Thanks for watching Akshay :) And I agree!

[@JordanaCTO]

Great episode. Awesome seeing fellow Canadian Bubblers also raising money and building cool things 🇨🇦 ...
In my experience, the point about investors who are overly concerned with tech stack being the wrong ones to talk to is completely true. The investors we went with at the end of the day didn't care about tech stack at all 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@jacobgershkovich]

Thanks for watching, Jordana! That's great to hear and congrats on the raise. And yeah, I've never raised money myself but that idea makes total sense to me.

[@heyakshay_]

notification squad

[@jacobgershkovich]

Hell yeah