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$100K ARR via Other
13 founders who reached $100K ARR using Other
Key Statistics
Stories
13
Avg Time
2 years
Fastest
1 month
Solo
23%
Top growth channel
Other (13)
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
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
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.
$49.2M/yr·$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.
$814M/yr·$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.
$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
AP
Amy Porterfield
From a $267 first launch to a $120 million course business
Her first digital course made $267 and she cried about it. Sixteen years later she reports a $120 million business built on relaunching the same courses.
$100K ARR in 6 years·Solo
Info productEducation🇺🇸 US
Gretta van Riel
How Gretta van Riel turned $24 and an Instagram account into $600,000 a month
Gretta van Riel started SkinnyMe Tea in May 2012 with $24 in her bank account, while still working a full time marketing job. She says the brand was doing $600,000 a month within six months of launching.
$100K ARR in 6 months·Solo
OtherE-commerce🇦🇺 AU
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
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
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Quick Stats
Stories13
Avg Time2 years
Fastest1 month
Technical31%