How does your industry compare? Deep-dive benchmarks from 412 founder stories across 11 industries.
AI / ML founders reach milestones 183% faster than Travel founders
1y 3mo avg vs 3y 6mo avg
Which industries reach revenue milestones fastest?
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Jason Zigelbaum turned ecommerce feedback pain into Zigpoll, stayed solo, and compounded to about $125K MRR by doubling down on Shopify merchants, agency operators, pricing fit, and customer-led product requests.
Pierre de Wulf and his co-founder Kevin met in high school. After building ShopToList and PricingBot with limited success, they went all-in on Scrapin...
Michael Mignano built Anchor to make podcast creation free and easy. The platform now powers one-third of all new podcasts and was acquired by Spotify.
Side-by-side benchmarks for all industries
| Industry | Avg Time | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
AI / ML | 1y 3mo | 2 days |
Content Creation | 1y 8mo | 1 days |
E-commerce | 1y 10mo | 14 days |
Developer Tools | 1y 12mo | 0 days |
Finance | 1y 12mo | 0 days |
Education | 2y 1mo | 0 days |
Marketing | 2y 3mo | 7 days |
Design | 2y 8mo | 0 days |
Productivity | 3 years | 0 days |
Health & Wellness | 3y 2mo | 1 days |
Travel | 3y 6mo | 14 days |