312. How Three Engineers No One Wanted to Fund Built a $XXXM Company

This isn't your typical "we raised $50M and exited" story. This is what happens when you have no choice but to figure it out yourselves. When the tripod refuses to fall. When you run out of everything except ideas. This is the story of Heroic Labs.About Heroic Labs: Core infrastructure for game studios. If you've played games from Zynga, Gram Games, or dozens of other studios, you've used their tech without knowing it. That's by design.📱 Follow for more founder stories that break the mold: www.deconstructoroffun.com/blogPIN THIS COMMENT:"The road you're in is a graveyard, full of skulls of previous dead companies." - Bing Gordon, Kleiner PerkinsTimestamps:00:00 Heroic Safari Adventures 01:24 Switching to Open Source04:14 Journey to Y Combinator 09:44 Life at Y Combinator 26:01 Demo Day and Investor Meetings 33:03 Heroic Bootstrapping 37:40 Remote Work and Team Dynamics 43:01  Founder Dynamics 50:19  Advice for Founders 01:03:55 Team Pride & Retention 01:13:04 Rapid Fire Questions