سين صاد: a Saudi community for independent founders

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سين صاد frames bootstrapping as a deliberate operating model rather than a fallback, asking founders to sell before scaling, begin manually, and follow one meaningful number. Its cohort format is concrete: 12 weeks, a small group, six guest sessions in Riyadh, and zero equity taken. The examples section uses named companies such as Atlassian, Mailchimp, Zoho, Basecamp, Epic Systems, and GitHub to illustrate different revenue and ownership paths, with figures attributed to external sources.