Bridget co-founded YouCanBookMe with her husband Keith as a bootstrapped SaaS in 2012. Over more than a decade, often in the face of competition with significant funding, (their closest competitor has taken over $350 million in venture funding), the YouCanBookMe team built a remarkable, remote-first company. In January 2025, YouCanBookMe was acquired by Capacity.
In this session, Bridget will share some of the existential moments in the company’s growth, why she and Keith decided that the time had come for them to sell and how they negotiated the sales process.
Bridget Harris
co-founder and CEO, YouCanBookMe
Bridget is the founder and CEO of YouCanBookMe, her third career. Her first was in the television and film industry before switching to politics. She served primarily as a policy adviser, with wide ranging interests including the role of technology in society, equal rights and opportunities. She ended up being an advisor to the UK Deputy Prime Minister.
In 2012 she co-founded YCBM. The service now manages over 750,000 appointments a year for companies including TED, Uber and Netflix as well as a huge number of SMEs. It was acquired by Capacity.com in January 2025.
Bridget is a regular attendee at BoS Conferences in the US and Europe and has spoken on being a bootstrapped founder and hiring remote talent.
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