Elena Petrov

Built her first SaaS (a project management tool for freelancers) in a Berlin coworking space at 26, scaled it to $2M ARR, sold it at 30. Built her second company (B2B invoice automation) during the pandemic, sold it for mid-seven-figures at 34. Now writes about the unsexy realities of bootstrapping — the 3am server crashes, the customers who ghost you, the loneliness of solo founding. Grew up in St. Petersburg, moved to Berlin for a startup accelerator and never left. Speaks four languages, none of them well enough to make jokes in.