Founder stories
$100K ARR via Other
9 founders who reached $100K ARR using Other
Key Statistics
Stories
9
Avg Time
3 years
Fastest
4 months
Solo
33%
Top growth channel
Other (9)
Cassey Ho
How a Farewell YouTube Video for 40 Students Became a Multi-Million Dollar Fitness Empire
Cassey Ho posted one Pilates video for her 40 students before moving cross-country. It accidentally became the #1 female fitness channel on YouTube with 500M+ views.
$100K ARR in 6 years·Solo
OtherHealth & Wellness🇺🇸 US
Alex Hormozi
How Alex Hormozi Built Gym Launch to $17M Profit in Year One — Then Sold It for $46.2M
Alex Hormozi sold his six gyms, poured the money into a licensing model, and hit $17M profit in the first year. He scaled to 4,500+ locations across 13 countries, sold for $46.2M, then built Acquisition.com into a $250M+ portfolio.
$100K ARR in 6 months·Team
Agency / ServiceEducation🇺🇸 US
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
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 in 2 years·Solo
Info ProductFinance🇺🇸 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.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
OtherE-commerce🇬🇧 GB
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.
$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.
$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
SaaSEducation🇺🇸 US
Thomas Frank
how thomas frank reached $1m a year selling notion templates
After a decade making content, Thomas Frank made $1 million in a single year selling Notion templates, with the line peaking at $100k a month.
$100K ARR in 4 months·Solo
Info ProductProductivityColorado, USA
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.
$100K ARR in 3 years·Team
OtherE-commerce🇪🇸 ES
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Quick Stats
Stories9
Avg Time3 years
Fastest4 months
Technical33%