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Co-Founderss Using Cold outreach
8 Co-Founderss who succeeded with Cold outreach
Key Statistics
Stories
8
Avg Time
2 years
Fastest
28 days
Solo
0%
Top growth channel
Cold outreach (8)
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Cody Schneider
From Google Drive folder to $1.1M ARR: How we built Swell AI with degenerate growth tactics
Started with 10 friends uploading MP3s to a Google Drive folder. Now doing $1.1M ARR by cold emailing 100,000 people per month.
$1.1M/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Team
SaaSAI / ML🇺🇸 US
David Hsu
Retool: Pivoting from Fintech to $3.2B Internal Tools Platform
With 60 days of runway left, David Hsu pivoted from a UK Venmo competitor to Retool - and had a $1.5M pilot signed by Y Combinator Demo Day.
$120M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSDeveloper tools🇺🇸 US
Satya Rajpurohit
How ITF Built a $2M/Year Font Empire for Indian Languages
Satya Rajpurohit co-founded Indian Type Foundry in 2009 and now designs fonts for Apple, Google, Samsung, and 300+ Fortune 500 clients.
$2M/yr·$100K ARR in 10 years·Team
SaaSDesign🇮🇳 IN
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Max Rhodes
How Faire Used Net-60 Terms and Free Returns to Build a $12.4B Wholesale Marketplace
Max Rhodes left Square to fix wholesale. Faire offered retailers net-60 payment terms and free returns — eliminating the risk of trying new brands. Result: $12.4B valuation, 700K+ retailers.
$500M/yr·$100K ARR in 9 months·Team
MarketplaceE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Santanu Dasgupta
How Meerkats AI reached $3K MRR in 4 weeks by selling agentic GTM work
Santanu Dasgupta turned two decades of GTM pain into Meerkats AI, an agentic marketing platform that found early customers through agency outreach, education and LinkedIn posts instead of a broad launch.
$36K/yr·$1K MRR in 28 days·Team
SaaSMarketingBengaluru, India
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Abhishek Chakravarty and Davis Baer
How Youform reached $18K MRR by becoming the affordable Typeform alternative
Abhishek Chakravarty spotted Typeform users looking for a cheaper form builder, sold his adjacent chatbot product, and built Youform into an $18K MRR freemium SaaS with pricing people could understand.
$216K/yr·First customer in 1 year·Team
SaaSProductivityIndia / USA
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Johannes Reck
Five bookings in two years, three from his mother, then GetYourGuide started over
Two years of building a peer to peer student guide platform produced exactly five bookings, three of them from Johannes Reck's mother. Then a Swiss rafting company called.
$1B/yr·First customer in 2 years·Team
MarketplaceTravel🇩🇪 DE
Taimur Abdaal
Causal went 18 months with nobody paying, then landed a first customer at $300 a month
Taimur Abdaal and Lukas Köbis quit their jobs in 2019 to build a better spreadsheet. Users called it cool and left. The first paying customer only arrived in early 2021, after they booked 40 demos in a single month and ran a free pilot.
First customer in 1 year·Team
SaaSFinance🇬🇧 GB
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