Gravl spends $50,000 to $80,000 monthly on payroll for 14 people
Julian Gargicevich · How I Built It: $400K/Month Mobile App (Gravl) · Nov 13, 2025 · at 13:07
Julian Gargicevich is the founder of Gravl, an AI workout app. He shares the startup's team structure and monthly payroll expenses.
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“Expense number two is salaries. It was mainly just the three of us for our first year. I did the development, and then Matthias and Aaron did the growth and ads. Since then, we've grown the team to probably maybe 13 to 14 people, give or take. There's some, like, part-times, there's some contractors. I'd say somewhere between 50 and 80 K.”
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