In this episode of the Business of Laravel podcast, Matt Stauffer chats with Joe Rucci, founder of Ghostable and co-founder of...

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Joe Rucci shares his entrepreneurial journey from co-founding Curricula, a cybersecurity education startup built with Laravel, through its acquisition by Huntress, to launching Ghostable, a zero-knowledge platform for managing environment variables. He discusses choosing Laravel in 2015 for its documentation, scaling from solo developer to a lean four-person engineering team, and navigating funding and acquisition while using PHP. Rucci emphasizes finding business ideas by listening to non-technical people's pain points, staying lean as a founder, and leveraging AI tools as a solo developer to accelerate development. He advocates for taking action on ideas rather than waiting, and shares how his lifelong friendship and early entrepreneurial experiments led to successful ventures.

Building Ghostable & Finding Ideas by Listening Well | Joe Rucci, Founder of Ghostable & Co-founder of Curricula