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Alex Hormozi
How Alex Hormozi Built Gym Launch to $17M Profit in Year One — Then Sold It for $46.2M
Alex Hormozi sold his six gyms, poured the money into a licensing model, and hit $17M profit in the first year. He scaled to 4,500+ locations across 13 countries, sold for $46.2M, then built Acquisition.com into a $250M+ portfolio.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
Agence / ServiceÉducation🇺🇸 US
Chris Do
The Futur: How Emmy-Winning Designer Chris Do Built a $4.9M Education Business from YouTube
Chris Do ran an Emmy-winning design agency for 22+ years. In 2014, he started making YouTube videos teaching creatives how to run businesses. That side project became The Futur — 2.5M subscribers and $4.9M+/year.
$100K ARR dans 7 years·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Jack Butcher
Visualize Value: How Jack Butcher Went from a Honda Factory to $180K/Month Through Daily Visual Posts
Jack Butcher assembled cars at a Honda factory, talked his way into design school, spent 8 years at agencies, then burned out running his own. In January 2019, he started posting simple visuals on Twitter. Within 18 months: $180K/month.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Dan Koe
Dan Koe: 6 Failed Businesses, Then $3.3M/Year from Writing 2 Hours Per Day
Dan Koe tried fitness YouTube, dropshipping, a Facebook ads agency, and two e-commerce brands — all failed. Then he started writing on Twitter. Within 4 years: $3.3M/year and 3.4M followers.
$100K ARR dans 4 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Wes Bos
Wes Bos: How a Canadian Developer Built a $10M+ Course Business Teaching JavaScript to 500,000 People
Wes Bos started teaching at a coding bootcamp, then launched "React for Beginners" — 2,300 students in 3 weeks. His free JavaScript30 challenge attracted 680K+ sign-ups. Total: $10M+ in course revenue from Hamilton, Ontario.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇨🇦 CA
Arvid Kahl
Arvid Kahl Built FeedbackPanda to $55K MRR in 2 Years, Then Sold It
Arvid and his partner Danielle built FeedbackPanda for online ESL teachers, reaching $55K MRR before selling for a life-changing amount.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Équipe
SaaSÉducation🇩🇪 DE
AS
Allison Seboldt
How a Political Science major built a $2K/month fantasy politics game
Started as a free MVP in 2018. Two years later, first paid customers. One year after that, $2K revenue months.
$1K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
SaaSÉducation🇺🇸 US
Daniel Vassallo
How I quit my $500K Amazon job and built $1M in revenue through small bets
Left Amazon with 150 Twitter followers. Three years later, $1M in cumulative revenue from info products and community.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
MI
Mubashar Iqbal
How building 120+ side projects led to a viral hit with 14M page views
After 80+ failed projects, one finally went viral. 4 million page views in 4 weeks, $4K/month in ad revenue, then sold.
$10K MRR dans 2 months·Équipe
AutreÉducation🇺🇸 US
Rosie Sherry
How an introvert built a $1.2M/year testing community over 12 years
Started as a free forum in 2007. 12 years later: $1.2M ARR from conferences, memberships, and courses.
$100K ARR dans 12 years·Solo
AutreÉducation🇬🇧 GB
Jay Clouse
How a newsletter grew into a $500K/year creator business in 3 years
Started with a blog nobody read. Rebranded to Creator Science and built to $500K/year through newsletter, podcast, and community.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Rosie Sherry
How a community expert built her second $10K/month business teaching what she knows
After building Ministry of Testing to $1.2M, Rosie started Rosieland to teach community building. Reached $10K/month in 2.5 years.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇬🇧 GB
Marie Poulin
From YouTube Tips to $40K/Month Teaching Notion
Marie discovered Notion in 2018 and started sharing tips on YouTube. When her audience asked for a course, she launched Notion Mastery to $40K/month.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇨🇦 CA
Steph Smith
Trends Content Lead Launches Course, $40K in First Month
Steph leveraged her experience leading content at The Hustle to launch Doing Content Right, earning $40K in the first month.
$10K MRR dans 1 month·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🌍 Remote
Ellen Yin
Corporate Marketer Quits Job, Pre-Sells Course, Reaches 7 Figures
Ellen pre-sold her first program with zero content, then built it based on customer feedback to reach 7-figure lifetime revenue.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Sumit Bansal
Tech Worker Sees Excel Skills Gap, Builds Blog to 1M+ Visitors and $10K/Month
Sumit saw colleagues struggling with Excel and built TrumpExcel to 1M+ monthly pageviews and $10K/month revenue.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇮🇳 IN
KC
Kevin Conti
Paid newsletter to $10K MRR in just 5 months through community engagement
Kevin turned his SaaS research into a newsletter, growing from $0 to $10K MRR in 5 months by building in public on Indie Hackers.
$10K MRR dans 5 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Marie Forleo
Business Coach Launches B-School, First Million-Dollar Launch in Year Two
Marie Forleo, along with Laura Roeder, created B-School. The first year enrolled a few hundred students. Fun Marketing The marketing broke all r...
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Ramit Sethi
Blogger Waits 2 Years to Launch $4.95 eBook, Now Runs $10M+ Business
Ramit Sethi waited two years before creating his first product, building audience to 50,000 visitors per month first. First Product His first pr...
Premier Client dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Ali Abdaal
Medical Student Creates YouTube Content, $294K First Course Launch
Ali Abdaal started making YouTube videos in 2017 during his final year of medical school at Cambridge. The Grind He uploaded 85 videos with 0 vi...
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Kieran Drew
Dentist Becomes Copywriter, $142K Course Launch While Working 50-60 Hours/Week
Kieran Drew was a dentist working 50-60 hours per week when he decided to build an online business. Premium Pricing He launched High Impact Writ...
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
David Perell
Writer Launches Online Writing Course, $200K+ from First Two Cohorts
David Perell launched Write of Passage in April 2019 with ~150 students at $600. He ran it with Tiago Forte. Instant Success Even the first coho...
$100K ARR dans 3 months·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Dickie Bush
Writer Creates 30-Day Challenge, Grows to 4,000 Students and Millions in Revenue
In December 2020, Dickie Bush tweeted: 'is anyone interested in doing a daily writing challenge for 30 days?' Rapid Validation Around 20 people...
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
Tiago Forte
Productivity Expert Launches Cohort Course, Builds $5M/Year Business
Tiago Forte 'rage quit' consulting with a month of savings. He created a course on SkillShare that became 2 on the platform. Cohort Model After...
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Solo
Produit d'InformationÉducation🇺🇸 US
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