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Arvid Kahl · 432 episodes with transcripts

Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.

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439: The Increasing Risk of Building in Public

April 3, 2026

Arvid Kahl (0:02)

Hey, it's Arvid, and this is The Bootstrapped Founder. Building in public, I want to talk about that today. It once helped me to sell my company, and today, I think that same level of transparency that I used and built in public with a couple of years ago, four, five, six years ago, but it's been a while, that…

And they took risks on your unfinished product because they believed in you and what you were building.

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