Luke Davis: Bootstrapped, Bias-Proof & the $20k Dot-Com Mistake | Ep 02 – How NOT to Be a Founder
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Luke Davis: Bootstrapped, Bias-Proof & the $20k Dot-Com Mistake | Ep 02 – How NOT to Be a Founder
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Luke Davis went from “employee #31” at a fast-growing tech scale-up to co-founder of Diversifying.io, a job board tackling workplace diversity long before it was headline news.
In this conversation we cover:
- Bootstrapping in real life – why Luke still hasn’t taken VC money and how that forces “creative discipline.”
- Fund-raising vs. reality – the hoops a Black female-led team still has to jump through (including an invoice-financing deal that disintegrated the moment ID was requested).
- The $20,000 domain lesson – how ignoring the “.com” cost Luke’s team a chunk of runway.
- Life-threatening illness mid-startup – Luke’s colon-cancer battle, what it did to his mental health, and the power of therapy and marathon training in the aftermath.
- Why “hire another person” is not the default answer to every scaling problem.
If you’ve ever wondered what it really feels like to juggle growth, cash-flow panic and a health crisis—while the market mood swings on diversity—Luke lays it all out.
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