How does your industry compare? Deep-dive benchmarks from 288 founder stories across 11 industries.
AI / ML founders reach milestones 225% faster than Health & Wellness founders
1y 3mo avg vs 4y 2mo avg
Which industries reach revenue milestones fastest?
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Back in late 2016, we launched HeadReach, a sales tool for lead generation. It's a SaaS that helps you find emails of people you want to sell to. Thin...
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...
Young Zhao's AI livestreaming tool had only 200 users after 3 months. But one tiny clipping feature users kept asking about became Opus Clip — hitting $1M ARR in 14 days and 10M users within 2 years.
Side-by-side benchmarks for all industries
| Industry | Avg Time | Fastest |
|---|---|---|
AI / ML | 1y 3mo | 2 days |
E-commerce | 1y 9mo | 1 months |
Education | 2y 2mo | 7 days |
Content Creation | 2y 5mo | 2 months |
Finance | 2y 5mo | 14 days |
Developer Tools | 2y 6mo | 7 days |
Marketing | 3y 2mo | 3 months |
Design | 3y 8mo | 1 months |
Travel | 3y 11mo | 1 year |
Productivity | 3y 11mo | 1 year |
Health & Wellness | 4y 2mo | 1 months |