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Co-Founderss Using Paid Ads
8 Co-Founderss who succeeded with Paid Ads
Key Statistics
Stories
8
Avg Time
2 years
Fastest
2 days
Solo
0%
Top growth channel
Paid Ads (8)
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Glow AI
Skincare AI App Reaches $10K MRR in 2 Days Using TikTok Influencers
Glow AI launched on November 7th, reached $10K MRR by November 9th, and accumulated 32,000 downloads in just 3 days. Influencer Equity Strategy...
$10K MRR in 2 days·Team
Mobile AppAI / ML🇺🇸 US
Saeju Jeong & Artem Petakov
800 Rejections, 8 Years No Revenue, Then a $3.7B Valuation: The Noom Story
Saeju Jeong pitched 800+ times over 4 years with zero funding before building Noom to $3.7B valuation.
$100K ARR in 8 years·Team
Mobile AppHealth & Wellness🇺🇸 US
Ezra Firestone
How Ezra Firestone turned $434,256 of ads into $1.4 million in a single month
BOOM! by Cindy Joseph made almost nothing for four years. Then Firestone published the exact numbers behind a month where $434,256.72 of advertising produced $1,422,500.15 in sales.
$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Justin Mares
Justin Mares took nearly $500 in two weeks before Kettle & Fire had any bone broth to sell
Before quitting his job in April 2014, Justin Mares put a $29.99 bone broth page online with a PayPal checkout and about $50 of Bing ads. Two weeks later he had taken nearly $500 for a product that did not exist.
$10K MRR in 1 year·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
MR
Marcus Rader
Free beer for Airbnb hosts: how Marcus Rader took four years to get Hostaway to $100k MRR
Investors told Marcus Rader the short term rental niche was too small. He printed a t-shirt reading Free Beer for Airbnb Hosts, stood on a Toronto street corner for an hour, and spent the next four years getting Hostaway to $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue.
$100K ARR in 4 years·Team
SaaSTravel🇨🇦 CA
MC
Mike Cessario
Mike Cessario spent 14 months building an audience for Liquid Death before there was a can to sell
Liquid Death was a Facebook page and a fake commercial for over a year before it was a product. By the time the first cans shipped in January 2019, the brand already had 100,000 followers and less than $10k of paid media behind it.
First Customer in 1 year·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
RB
Ryan Bartlett
$26,000 in month one: how Ryan Bartlett started True Classic as a side project
Three friends put a few thousand dollars into a t-shirt brand in late 2019. Bartlett says the first month brought $26,000 and 651 orders.
$10K MRR in 1 month·Team
OtherE-commerce🇺🇸 US
Zach Yadegari
Cal AI went from a high school classroom to nearly $300k a month in 98 days
Zach Yadegari announced Cal AI on Product Hunt in April 2024 as a 17 year old high school junior. Ninety eight days later he reported nearly $300,000 in monthly revenue, and in March 2026 MyFitnessPal bought the app.
$100K ARR in 3 months·Team
Mobile AppHealth & Wellness🇺🇸 US
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