I’m Stuart Miles. I built Pocket-lint from scratch in 2003, grew it to over 12 million monthly readers, and successfully sold it in 2022. That experience of nearly 20 years of bootstrapping, scaling, and eventually exiting a consumer tech business works towards shaping everything I do now.

Today I’m building Squirrel, a suite of tools that helps publishers grow and understand their affiliate revenues. I also chair two founder forums at Helm, advise businesses, universities, and industry bodies on strategy and storytelling, and am a BAFTA Games member.

Every week I write Exit Strategy, a newsletter on Substack about building and exiting businesses, the questions founders should be asking, and things I’m learning along the way.