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Laravel's Taylor Otwell | Driving Growth Through Product & Community | S3E2 | Spotlight On | AccelVC

If you’ve ever been to a Laracon, you’d be mistaken for thinking you’d just walked into a music festival, not a PHP framework conference. Taylor Otwell founded Laravel in his native Little Rock, Arkansas, and has spent most of the past 14 years bootstrapping a company known for building exceptional product experiences alongside a community of 1 million+ people. On this episode of Spotlight On, Taylor joins Accel’s Miles Clements to discuss building outside of Silicon Valley, why software is an excellent vehicle for viral community growth, and why he ultimately decided to take on investment. #vc #venturecapital #founder #entrepreneurs #tech #CEO #laravel #taylorotwell Season 3: This season, we’re digging into the parts of founding and building companies that people don’t often see: the firsts, the messy moments, and the key decision points that come after that initial founding phase. Great companies are built one decision at a time, so we’re asking the people doing the building: How do you make the decisions that matter? What are the tradeoffs? And would you do it the same way again? Spotlight On: Spotlight On is a podcast about how companies are built, from the people doing the building. Accel: Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. Featured: Taylor Otwell, CEO and Founder of Laravel and Miles Clements, Partner at Accel Conversation Highlights: 00:00 – The beginnings of Laravel 03:24 – On choosing to bootstrap and build a company outside of Silicon Valley 7:59 – Navigating the tension between open source and commercialization 11:50 – How Taylor’s definition of “selling out his community” changed 14:27 – What’s changed since Taylor took on fundraising after 13 years of bootstrapping 17:29 – What it takes to go from programmer to CEO 20:56 – Taylor’s secrets to scaling (and keeping a four-meeting week) 23:31 – How Laravel’s kept its DNA while doubling in a year 29:50 – How Taylor built a 1 million+ strong community around a PHP framework Connect With Us: Website: https://www.accel.com/ Linkedin:   / accel-vc   Twitter:   / accel   Laravel's Taylor Otwell | Driving Growth Through Product & Community | S3E2 | Spotlight On | AccelVC    / @accelvc