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20 Co-Founderss who succeeded with Other
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Brianna Blaney & Dr. Aria Hahn
From an oversubscribed alpha 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...
First customer in 0 days·Team
SaaSFinanceVancouver, BC, Canada
Eric Bandholz
Started with $30 Shopify subscription, 1.6M YouTube subscribers
Beardbrand started with just a $30 Shopify subscription. Now we have 1.6M YouTube subscribers. Authenticity beats production quality. $30 Start...
$10M/yr·$100K ARR in 2 years·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
RS
Roman Sevast
From Crushing VC Rejection to YC: Designer Marketplace $100K ARR in 3 Months
Roman struggled to find the right designer while working on a previous startup. They launched Awesomic with a simple Facebook post. Fast Validation...
$6M/yr·$100K ARR in 7 months·Team
MarketplaceDesign🇺🇸 US
KA
Kushank Aggarwal
Prompt Genie
From Idea to First Customer in 4 Days, Five Figures in 30 Days Using No-Code + TikTok
A non-technical founder went from idea to first customer in 4 days and five figures in 30 days using no-code tools and TikTok.
$360K/yr·$10K MRR in 1 month·Team
Chrome extensionAI / MLVancouver, BC, Canada
DJ
Dr. John Berardi
The Launch That Made $140K in One Week — Then Almost Bankrupted Them
Dr. John Berardi launched Precision Nutrition to a 30,000-person newsletter. They made $500,000 in six months. Then their payment processor froze every dollar. This is the story of how they survived.
$100K ARR in 1 month·Team
Info productHealth & wellness🇨🇦 CA
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 in 7 years·Team
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Ben Francis
How a 19-Year-Old Pizza Delivery Driver Built Gymshark into a $1.45B Fitness Empire
Ben Francis was delivering pizzas when he started screen-printing fitness apparel in his garage. By partnering with YouTube fitness influencers, he turned Gymshark into a £1.45B brand.
$814M/yr·$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
OtherE-commerce🇬🇧 GB
Vasco Monteiro
how Vasco Monteiro grew Journalist AI to $70k mrr with YouTube
After selling his SEO marketplace Vettted, Vasco Monteiro built Journalist AI and grew it past $70k MRR in under a year, with almost all of the growth coming from YouTube.
$840K/yr·$10K MRR in 5 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇵🇹 PT
Ramon Berrios
how ramon berrios bootstrapped castmagic to $1m arr in under 9 months
Ramon Berrios and his co-founders built Castmagic to fix their own podcast workflow, then bootstrapped it to $1M ARR in under nine months with no outside money.
$1M/yr·$100K ARR in 7 months·Team
SaaSContent creation🇺🇸 US
David Park
how jenni ai ground through three flat years to hit $10m arr
David Park sat at roughly $2,000 MRR for three years before a niche pivot to academic writing and a viral thread sent Jenni AI on a climb to $10M ARR and 10 million users.
$10M/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
SaaSEducation🇺🇸 US
SR
Sergi Ruiz
how a personalized map shop quietly made over 500k as a side project
Sergi Ruiz and his wife launched Mapness in 2017 selling custom map prints. Organic Instagram posts grew into a six-figure pandemic peak, then a slow fade.
$9K/yr·$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
OtherE-commerce🇪🇸 ES
CT
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta & Rob Hoffman
Turning an old LinkedIn extension audience into $62K MRR in three months
Cam Trew, Jake Ward, Lara Acosta and Rob Hoffman rebuilt Kleo from an old LinkedIn extension audience into an AI content workflow that reached $62K MRR in three months without ads or Product Hunt.
$744K/yr·$10K MRR in 2 months·Team
SaaSMarketing🌍 Remote
PV
Paul Vengeons, Nicholas Dulait & Léo Leducq
How ChatSEO reached €14K MRR in three months with zero paid ads
Paul Vengeons, Nicholas Dulait, and Léo Leducq turned an SEO coaching relationship into ChatSEO, then used beta calls, founder-led audience, free tools, and personalized organic distribution to reach about €14K MRR in roughly three months.
$168K/yr·$10K MRR in 3 months·Team
SaaSMarketingFrance / Belgium
AK
Adam Knorr & Ben A. Wise
how Adam Knorr and Ben Wise built InfluenceLab to $5.6k MRR by coaching one narrow niche
Adam Knorr turned years of manual LinkedIn editing for financial advisors into InfluenceLab, a $49/month AI coaching SaaS that reached $5,651 MRR from 119 paying users by selling to a niche he already served.
$68K/yr·$1K MRR in 9 days·Team
SaaSMarketing🇺🇸 US
PN
Preetam Nath & Sankalp Jonna
How two founders used the Shopify App Store to grow SuperLemon past $25K MRR
Preetam Nath and Sankalp Jonna turned a two-week Shopify App Store MVP into SuperLemon, a WhatsApp commerce tool that passed $25K MRR with 20,000 merchants and a two-person team.
$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
SaaSE-commerceBengaluru, India
JK
Jake Karls
How Mid-Day Squares sold 500,000 bars in its first 11 months
Jake Karls and his two co-founders started making chocolate bars by hand in a condo kitchen in August 2018. Eleven months in he posted that they had sold 500,000 of them.
$20M/yr·$100K ARR in 9 months·Team
OtherE-commerce🇨🇦 CA
Kristo Käärmann
Wise launched with a one pound fee and had customers moving money in seven days
TransferWise went live on 24 January 2011 with a flat one pound fee and one TechCrunch post. Seven days later the founders reported customers moving money between eight countries.
$1.2B/yr·First customer in 7 days·Team
MarketplaceFinance🇬🇧 GB
Matteo Franceschetti
Eight Sleep hit its $100,000 goal in under 11 hours, then spent a year learning to manufacture
Matteo Franceschetti and three co-founders put a sleep tracking mattress cover on Indiegogo on 27 January 2015. The $100,000 goal was met the same day, and the campaign closed at $1,231,729 from 5,202 backers.
$100K ARR in 4 months·Team
OtherHealth & wellness🇺🇸 US
Matthieu Rouif
Two weeks from the first commit to a paid app: how Matthieu Rouif started Photoroom
Matthieu Rouif and Eliot Andres shipped the first version of Photoroom, then called BG, fourteen days after the first line of code, with subscriptions already wired in. It now processes more than 7 billion images a year.
$50M/yr·First customer in 14 days·Team
Mobile appDesign🇫🇷 FR
MB
Mike Beckham
Six months of research, then the first Simple Modern bottle sold
Mike Beckham and two co-founders put $200,000 into a drinkware brand competing with Yeti. The first bottle sold about six months later, and 24 million followed in seven years.
$200M/yr·First customer in 7 months·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
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