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Jozef Gherman Settled With CFTC For $400,000 Over Crypto Firm
“We later settled with them after I think like two or three years of dealing with this issue. It was like a 400,000 dollar total settlement. Still paying for it to this day.”
Ben Leavitt: Follow Buddy operates entirely within Instagram's terms of service
“All that we're doing is telling people who unfollowed them through leveraging Instagram's export data feature. So all that you have to do is go follow the steps to get your followers and following information that is approved from Instagram. We're not breaking…”
Czerny: New Emails Combined With New Reddit Accounts Trigger Bans
“And when you create an account, do not create it with a new email. So if you do the combo new email plus new Reddit account, You will get banned right away.”
Walls: Reddit Users Created a Petition to Ban Starter Story
“People were so mad that we were sharing these business stories on starter story that they created a petition to ban us from Reddit.”
Pieter Levels built his flight simulator entirely using AI coding tools
“In fact, Peter Levels built his game with 100%
AI coding tools”
Myers: Google and Microsoft each employ 120,000 offshore workers
“Google has like a 180,000 FTEs around the world. They have a 120,000 people offshore. Microsoft, same ratio.”
Anderson: Apple's effective App Store cut is 20% under $1M, 33% beyond
“Apple charges 15%, but for whatever reason, it's really closer to 20% of revenue, up to your first million dollars in earnings. Beyond that, Apple charges 30, but really closer to like 33%”
Pearl: Manifestation content generated over one billion TikTok views
“I have 1.2 million followers on Instagram. Yeah. I post a bunch of manifestation content, and this is my TikTok with 2.8 million followers. Combined views have generated over a billion views on TikTok, which is crazy.”
Mezzadra's yoga deck generated over $200K on Kickstarter in first month
“We launched our first product on Kickstarter and generated over 200,000 dollars in the first month.”
ChartDB has surpassed 21,000 stars on GitHub
“So this is our GitHub chart to be chart to be, and we just passed 21,000 stars on GitHub.”
Wysocka: Rootd hit 10k downloads year one and 100k year two
“I'd say in the first year we reached around 10,000 downloads. It wasn't until year two or so that we reached a 100,000 downloads. And I remember after that, I guess we just knew that there was a real demand for it and kept going. And I hit a million downloads,…”
CJ: CodeGuide holds official partnerships with Cursor, Windsurf, Bolt, and Lovable
“We have official partnership with Cursor AI Windsurf, Bolt, Lovable, and all the top AI coding tools.”
Pat Walls: Pieter Levels is making $50K from his flight simulator
“And my buddy Peter Levels is making 50,000 dollars with his plain game simulator.”
McIntosh: Reddit resume guide ranks first on Google for 'resume advice Reddit'
“I just sat down and I wrote out a whole long resume guide of do's and don'ts, and that post on Reddit blew up so much that it is now the first result on Google for resume advice Reddit.”
Sheets & Giggles generated $284,000 in total crowdfunding revenue
“What ended up happening is our email list converted at four and a half percent, we got 450 customers at a hundred dollar AOV, did 45,000 dollars on day one, and that snowballed into a 284,000 dollar campaign.”
Patis deployed $60M across 275 startups as a side hustle
“So I was able to invest in 275 companies Deploy about sixty million in total capital, all as a side hustle while I was kind of operating as an early stage employee at a startup.”
Patis's first syndicate startup grew from a $6M to $500M valuation
“In this particular company, they were raising two million dollars at a six million dollar valuation. We had the opportunity to invest a 150,000 as the final trunch, and that company today has recently raised at a five hundred million dollar valuation.”
Lieberman: Morning Brew generates over $75M annually with 200 employees
“Morning Brew is a two-hundred-person company that does more than seventy-five million dollars a year in revenue”
Smale: In 2010, no M&A firms or brokers serviced online businesses
“There was no M&A firms that did this. There were no business brokers. If you had a really big business, you couldn't call a big investment bank because they wouldn't return your phone call. So very much offered a service that no one else did, and really built …”
Leavitt: Video inventing the Instagram 'compare lists method' hit 1M+ views
“I made a video about that and it got like one point Something million views. And that strategy that I brought to the internet has since been repeated so many times that it's referred to as the compare lists method.”
Baron: Prayer Lock Reached Number 22 in App Store Reference Category
“In November, prayer lock reached number 22 in the reference category.”
Fricks: A 60-second TikTok video generated 15 validation comments for CuriosityQuench
“And then for curiosity quench as an example, I posted a video, 60 seconds on TikTok. I just point and shoot recorded it, talking to the camera and 15 people commented saying, I need this.”
Neuro hit its $30K Indiegogo goal in days via Reddit Nootropics
“Kent, luckily, was a big Redditor, so he got the Reddit Nootropics Group to support, and I think we hit, like, our goal, like, of 30 K in, like, three or four days.”
Ryan Chen was paralyzed at 19 in a snowboarding accident
“When I was 19, I was at a friend's birthday party, and I was going off a big jump out in Big Bear, California, and I over-rotated on the jump, and I landed on my back, shattered my spine, and was Paralyzed instantly, and literally my life changed in a split se…”
Neuro rejected two Shark Tank offers to maintain its minimum valuation
“We got two offers that were, like, below what we were asking for, and Kent and I just had this floor where, like, we're just not gonna go below this, and we stuck to our guns.”