How a Solo Dev Went From $0 to $57M RaisedㅣLaravel, Taylor Otwell

Taylor Otwell’s journey from solo developer to building Laravel, the world’s most beloved PHP framework. When he created Laravel in 2011, it wasn’t meant to become a massive open-source community – he simply needed better tools for his own projects. For a decade, he bootstrapped Laravel while maintaining his "underdog mentality" in the PHP world. He stayed deeply involved with the community, spending his first 90 minutes each day managing GitHub pull requests. Last year, he finally raised $57M from Accel to take Laravel to the next level. From zero revenue to quarter million daily downloads – what drove Taylor…