Best LinkedIn Posts by Founders (2026)

We just hit $1M ARR. But here's what no one tells you about that milestone: — We're still not profitable — I took a pay cut to get here — Our biggest competitor raised $50M and we've raised $0 The hardest part of bootstrapping isn't the money. It's watching funded competitors outspend you on ads, hiring, and events while you're grinding 70-hour weeks. Worth it? Ask me when we hit $10M.

If you're a technical founder, here's why you should STOP coding: I wrote our first 100K lines of code. Then I hired a junior engineer who wrote better code in 3 months than I did in a year. Your job isn't to be the best engineer. It's to hire them, sell the product, and get out of their way. The hardest transition in founding is realizing you're no longer the maker — you're the multiplier.

Our first 10 customers were all people who rejected us. They said our product was 'too simple.' So we pivoted to a different ICP — SMBs who WANTED simple. We hit $500K ARR in 8 months. Lesson: When enterprise says you're too simple, don't add features. Find buyers who value simplicity. The market you start with isn't always the market that loves you.