bootstrap

“I figured we can absolutely bootstrap this with no corporate background, just hard work and the American dream, we’ll work 80-plus hours a week, we’ll make it happen,” Lieu said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

“We built the Data Factory to bootstrap the initial intelligence for the Sonny robot, so that we can begin to deploy Sonny into the field,” said Josh Gruenstein, co-founder of Tutor.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

One promising strategy is known as the "bootstrap" approach.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

SilverSneakers represents just a small slice of that — the costs are not broken out by MedPAC — but it’s significant enough that the bootstrap venture has turned into a big business.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Those who pull themselves up by the bootstraps should be able to attain a life materially more comfortable than their parents’.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Pulling up your bootstraps and spraying some tough on it is important.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

But in the U.S., the ethos of grinding and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps is ubiquitous, both in the country’s beginnings and our current environment of always-on technology and work hours.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

We can’t just pull ourselves up by the bootstraps when we’ve lost everything.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2023

Teachers exhorted us to be like him, to lift ourselves from poverty by our bootstraps.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

“I invested all of my $175,000 in personal savings to launch Solidcore and bootstrapped the company after that,” she revealed in an interview with the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

"They were larger-than-life figures who bootstrapped their way to multibillion dollar companies, and they were kind of seen as heroes who were like changing the world," Castillo said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

It was founded by Smith, his brother and his father in 2002, and bootstrapped by them until 2012.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But he’s bootstrapped himself into intelligence and with savvy networking and know-how, he becomes indispensable to the British, volunteering as a major to survey land and negotiate treaties with the Native tribes and French army.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

“When we first started during the pandemic, we were entirely bootstrapped and still working other full-time jobs, while doing our best to keep up with the growth of Locale,” Clark said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Their worries — AI systems deceiving their creators, bootstrapping their own code, or launching autonomous cyberattacks — show up in scientific literature.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Just like Donald Trump, also the son of a bootstrapping developer, the Kushner boys talk of visiting building sites as children with their father, Charlie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Putting aside the chutzpah of the bootstrapping, it’s not clear that the court is wrong.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

In the book you brought up "Little House on the Prairie," which is a narrative that speaks very specifically to the ways in which bootstrapping looks different to girls, and from a very young age.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023

He had worked as a printer but was now bootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self-employed.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon