Emmanuel Straschnov bootstrapped Bubble for seven years without a dollar of outside capital. No VC clock. No forced growth. Just two founders building the infrastructure to give anyone — regardless of technical background — the ability to ship real software. Today, companies built on Bubble have generated over $1 billion in revenue in a single year. The platform has 5 million registered users. And Emmanuel's core thesis from 2012 hasn't changed: domain expertise matters more than coding ability.

Emmanuel is the CEO and co-founder of Bubble, the "OG" no-code platform for building full-stack web applications. Born in France, educated at École Polytechnique and Harvard Business School, he and co-founder Josh Haas spent five years as a two-person team before their first hire and bootstrapped past $1M ARR before raising a single round. They rais ...