Founder stories
Témoignages de fondateurs
Parcourir les Témoignages
16 témoignages trouvés
Codie Sanchez
Contrarian Thinking: How Codie Sanchez Built a 750K-Subscriber Newsletter and $100M+ Business Portfolio from Scratch
Codie Sanchez went from Goldman Sachs to building Contrarian Thinking — a newsletter that hit 10K subscribers in 30 days. She parlayed that audience into courses, community, and a holding company that now does 9 figures in revenue.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
Produit d'InformationFinance🇺🇸 US
Nick Huber
Sweaty Startup: How Nick Huber Built a $150M Self-Storage Empire from a College Side Hustle
Nick Huber started Storage Squad at Cornell, expanded to 25 college towns, then caught the self-storage bug. He used Twitter to raise $20M+ and scale to 63+ properties worth $150M+, while building Sweaty Startup into a media brand.
$100K ARR dans 9 years·Équipe
AutreFinance🇺🇸 US
TC
Tim Chen
How Tim Chen Turned $800 and a Credit Card Spreadsheet into a $500M+ Revenue Public Company
Tim Chen invested $800 to build NerdWallet, a credit card comparison site. Obsessive SEO grew it to 20M+ monthly visitors, $500M+ revenue, and an IPO in 2021.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
AutreFinance🇺🇸 US
Jesse Mecham
Broke College Student Builds Spreadsheet Into Multi-Million Dollar Business
Jesse Mecham built a simple spreadsheet to manage money with his wife. That spreadsheet became YNAB, now used by millions worldwide.
$10K MRR dans 5 years·Solo
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Jon Bittner
Astrophysics PhD Builds Expense Splitting App Used by Tens of Millions
Jon Bittner pivoted from astrophysics to building Splitwise, now used by tens of millions worldwide.
$1K MRR dans 2 years·Équipe
Application MobileFinance🇺🇸 US
AU
Andres Ugarte
Solo Founder Builds Apple Design Award Finalist Finance App
Andres Ugarte started building Copilot Money in 2018, creating a native iOS finance app that became an Apple Design Award finalist.
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
Application MobileFinance🇺🇸 US
KS
Kirk Simpson
From Near Bankruptcy to $400M Exit: Building Wave Accounting
Kirk Simpson built Wave from a free accounting tool to a $400M acquisition by H&R Block, surviving being 10 days from bankruptcy along the way.
$100K ARR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇨🇦 CA
Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold & Jessica McKellar
Three-Time Founders Built the Best Bookkeeping Service After Oracle Called Out Their Internal Tool
After two successful exits to Oracle and Dropbox, these MIT friends built Pilot into the largest startup-focused bookkeeping firm by doing all the bookkeeping themselves first.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Henrique Dubugras & Pedro Franceschi
From YC VR Pivot to Billion-Dollar Fintech: The Brex Story
These 22-year-old Brazilian founders pivoted from VR in Y Combinator to build Brex, solving their own pain of not getting a corporate credit card despite having funding.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Immad Akhund
After Selling Heyzap for $45M, Building a Bank for Startups
Immad Akhund left Google and sold his first startup for $45M before building Mercury, the go-to banking platform for startups valued at $3.5B.
$100K ARR dans 6 months·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Mike McDerment
From Parents Basement to $50M Revenue: The FreshBooks Story
Mike McDerment accidentally saved over an invoice and built FreshBooks to solve his own pain, bootstrapping for 3.5 years from his parents basement to reach $50M+ in annual revenue.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇨🇦 CA
Shalom Stark
Growing to 200,000 Users Without Any Marketing: The Invoice Ninja Story
Shalom Stark bootstrapped Invoice Ninja to 200,000+ users through open source, SEO, and word of mouth - without spending on marketing.
$10K MRR dans 3 years·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Henrique Dubugras & Pedro Franceschi
From Brazilian Teen Hackers to $12B Fintech: The Brex Story
Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi started working together at 16 and built Brex to $12B valuation.
$100K ARR dans 1 year·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Jen Yip
Solo female founder built a budgeting app to $45K+ ARR while traveling the world
Jen quit her job at Twitter, traveled the world, and built Lunch Money as a company of one to 1000+ paying users.
$100K ARR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSFinance🇨🇦 CA
Kyle Nolan
Side Project Financial Planner: 2+ Years to $10K MRR
Kyle built ProjectionLab because he wanted a better plan for his own financial future. There were 0 paid users when he posted to Hacker News. Hacke...
$10K MRR dans 2 years·Solo
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
KP
From cold emails to $2M+ in funding for our startup
We started Pocketed during the pandemic to help startups find grants and funding they didn't know existed. The Idea During COVID, there was sudd...
Premier Client dans 14 days·Équipe
SaaSFinance🇺🇸 US
Parcourir par secteur
Explorez les témoignages de fondateurs dans votre niche
Vous avez atteint un jalon de revenus ?
Partagez votre parcours et inspirez d'autres fondateurs. Nous serions ravis de mettre en avant votre histoire.
Une note sur ces témoignages : Les fondateurs présentés ici sont ceux qui ont partagé publiquement leur succès. Toutes les startups ne réussissent pas, et les délais varient considérablement. Ces témoignages sont destinés à inspirer et à éduquer, et non à définir des attentes.
Ne manquez aucun nouveau témoignage de fondateur
Nous ajoutons 5+ nouveaux témoignages chaque semaine. Recevez-les directement dans votre boîte mail, accompagnés d'analyses sur ce qui fonctionne pour les fondateurs en ce moment.