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Scott Keyes
From $130 Flight to $320K/Month: The Going Story
Scott found a $130 round-trip to Milan and turned his flight-finding hobby into a 2M+ subscriber business.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·ソロ
SaaS旅行🇺🇸 US
Jack Sheldon
Jack's Flight Club: From Hobby to 1M+ Members
Jack turned his personal flight hacking hobby into the UK's leading cheap flight service.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇬🇧 GB
ML
Mike Lee
MyFitnessPal: From Personal Diet Tracker to $475M Acquisition
Mike Lee built a calorie counter to lose weight for his wedding, then bootstrapped it to 80M+ users.
$100K ARR ／ 7 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
Steve Kamb
Nerd Fitness: Building a 7-Figure Business for Fitness Misfits
Steve Kamb turned his nerdy approach to fitness into a 7-figure business with 300K+ email subscribers.
$10K MRR ／ 2 years·ソロ
情報商材健康・ウェルネス🇺🇸 US
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Aaron Davidson
Cronometer: A Nerdy Side Project That Became the Most Accurate Nutrition Tracker
Aaron Davidson built Cronometer as a personal tool for CRON dieting, now used by millions for precise nutrition tracking.
$10K MRR ／ 12 years·ソロ
モバイルアプリ健康・ウェルネス🇨🇦 CA
BT
Bernie Tschirren & Michael Cameron
Rome2Rio: From Side Project to $40M Exit by Solving "How Do I Get There?"
Two ex-Microsoft engineers built the definitive travel search for getting from A to B anywhere in the world.
$10K MRR ／ 4 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇦🇺 AU
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Mikael Robertsson
Flightradar24: How Two Aviation Geeks Built the World's Flight Tracker
A hobby project tracking aircraft in Sweden became the #1 flight tracking app in 130+ countries.
$10K MRR ／ 8 years·チーム
モバイルアプリ旅行🇸🇪 SE
Davis Siksnans & Lauris Liberts
Printful: From Garage Printing to $289M Revenue Print-on-Demand Giant
Started printing posters in a living room, Davis Siksnans bootstrapped Printful to $289M revenue and 1,700+ employees.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
マーケットプレイスEコマース🇱🇻 LV
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Erikas Malisauskas
Kaching Bundle Quantity Breaks
Building a $4.5M/Year Shopify App Portfolio with $0 Marketing
Erikas Malisauskas quit freelancing and built 5 Shopify apps generating $4.5M annually without any paid marketing.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·ソロ
SaaSEコマース🇱🇹 LT
Marc Chapon
Dropshipping Store (Pets Niche)
From Restaurant Manager to $200K in 3 Months with Dropshipping
Marc Chapon quit restaurant management and built a pet store doing $200K in 3 months by dropshipping US/EU products.
$10K MRR ／ 3 months·ソロ
その他Eコマース🇺🇸 US
Ben Chestnut & Dan Kurzius
Mailchimp: The $12 Billion Bootstrapped Exit That Changed Email Marketing
Ben Chestnut bootstrapped Mailchimp for 20 years without VC funding, then sold to Intuit for $12 billion - the largest bootstrapped acquisition ever.
$100K ARR ／ 8 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Gareth Williams, Barry Smith & Bonamy Grimes
Skyscanner: From Ski Trip Frustration to £1.4 Billion Exit
Three friends frustrated by expensive ski flights built Skyscanner on the side, bootstrapped it to £1,000/day, then sold for £1.4 billion.
$100K ARR ／ 5 years·チーム
SaaS旅行🇬🇧 GB
Paul Yacoubian & Chris Lu
Copy.ai: Building in Public from $0 to $157K MRR in 10 Months
Paul Yacoubian launched Copy.ai on Twitter and grew to $157K MRR in 10 months by building in public and leveraging GPT-3.
$100K ARR ／ 10 months·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Mati Staniszewski & Piotr Dąbkowski
ElevenLabs: From Polish High School Friends to $1B+ AI Voice Platform
Mati and Piotr, childhood friends from Poland, built ElevenLabs to fix robotic AI voices and reached 1M users in 5 months after beta launch.
$100K ARR ／ 9 months·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Joshua Xu & Wayne Liang
HeyGen: From Snapchat Engineer to 40K Enterprise Customers with AI Video
Joshua Xu left Snapchat to build HeyGen, growing to 40K+ enterprise customers and $35M+ revenue with AI-generated video avatars.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
David Holz
Midjourney: The Bootstrapped AI Art Revolution That Said No to Apple Twice
David Holz bootstrapped Midjourney to profitability within months, building a billion-dollar AI art platform on Discord without VC funding.
$100K ARR ／ 2 months·ソロ
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Dave Rogenmoser, Chris Hull & JP Morgan
Jasper: From 0 to 100K Customers in Under 2 Years, Unicorn in 18 Months
Dave Rogenmoser launched Conversion.ai and grew to 100K paying customers in under 2 years, reaching unicorn status in 18 months.
$100K ARR ／ 2 months·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Runway: From NYU Research Project to Hollywood's AI Video Tool
Cristóbal Valenzuela started Runway as a NYU research project and grew it into the AI platform behind Oscar-winning films like "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
$100K ARR ／ 4 years·チーム
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Rand Fishkin & Casey Henry
SparkToro: How the Moz Founder Built a Calmer Company After VC Burnout
After building Moz to $30M ARR then stepping down, Rand Fishkin bootstrapped SparkToro to 1,000+ paying customers with a radically different approach.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
Rick Perreault
Unbounce: From Agency Frustration to $100K MRR Without a Sales Team
Rick Perreault solved his own pain as a creative director - waiting on developers for landing pages - and built Unbounce to $100K+ MRR without a sales team.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇨🇦 CA
Colin Nederkoorn
Customer.io: From 5 Customers at $10/Month to $70M ARR Over a Decade
Colin Nederkoorn started Customer.io with 5 customers paying $10/month and grew it to $70M ARR over 10 years through patient, methodical growth.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
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Jimmy Daly
Superpath: The $500K Content Marketing Community That Costs $500/Month to Run
Jimmy Daly built Superpath into a $500K business with just $500/month in operating costs using no-code tools and community-led growth.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·ソロ
その他マーケティング🇺🇸 US
Patrick Woods
Orbit: Creating the Community Growth Category and Raising $22M
Patrick Woods created the Orbit Model for developer relations, then built Orbit to help teams manage communities - raising $22M in the process.
$100K ARR ／ 2 years·チーム
SaaSマーケティング🇺🇸 US
David Cramer & Chris Jennings
Sentry: From Open Source Side Project to $3B Error Monitoring Platform
David Cramer started Sentry as django-db-log in 2008. Five years of open source work led to product-market fit from day one when they launched the cloud service.
$100K ARR ／ 3 years·チーム
SaaS開発者ツール🇺🇸 US
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