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Anthropic is on an unprecedented growth run. Just in the past year they grew from $1B to $19B ARR. They added $6B in ARR just in *February*. Companies like Palantir and Atlassian took 15-20 years to reach ~$5B ARR. Anthropic is adding that every month. Amol Avasare is head of g…↗

·@lennysan·Apr 6, 2026·media·activation·anthropic·cash·claude

yes, I crossed $1,000,000 / month was trying to keep it quiet but it got leaked on a pod so... let's go quick backstory: I sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio for $8m in 2024 then got back to work and honestly, I was terrified when you set a standard for yourself, you have to live…↗

1/ Base44 ended up making $189K *profit* in May - not $100K as expected. What changed: – Faster, unexpected growth – Drastically reduced LLM costs (see cost graph below) Sharing some details on what helped improve margins 🧵↗

·@MaorShlomo·Jun 4, 2025·essay·base44·growth·llm·margins

I’ve scaled Base44 bootstrapped, solo, and mostly organically. Once things started clicking - it took 3 weeks to go from $0 to $1M ARR, and 7 weeks to cross 140k users But before that, I failed miserably at marketing. Here’s a long thread of what worked and what didn’t 🧵↗

·@MaorShlomo·Apr 14, 2025·essay·arr·base44·growth·marketing

Today, my little one-person business crossed $7.5M in total revenue. It took 1,712 days, I ran zero ads & operate at a ~91% margin. Here are the 22 steps of my wild & strange journey: Hope they are helpful to someone ↓↗

This is the exact flywheel that I used to scale ConvertKit from $2k to $98k in MRR in 12 months with direct sales.↗

·@nathanbarry·Apr 10, 2024·essay·convertkit·growth·mrr·saas

How we added $100,000 MRR with influencer marketing step-by-step: 1. Find out who your audience watches - To find the first influencer to get you started, just go to your users' Instagram and see which influencers they are following - When you see an influencer that is followed…↗

10 newsletters doing $1,000,000+ per year with 1-person or small teams. Newsletters can scale to millions in sales with small teams. Here are some examples: 1) TLDR Newsletter Estimated annual revenue: ~$5-$10M Newsletter subscribers: 1,250,000 Monetization type: Sponsors…↗

These 2 Michigan University students founded one of the most popular business newsletter companies. Alex & Austin made the news look cool with Morning Brew. In just 7 years, Morning Brew got: - $50M in annual revenue - 4M+ subscribers Breakdown of how they did it🧵↗

Sharing a milestone! My team and I made $1 million selling @NotionHQ templates in a single year (Jan-Dec 2022). Here's a look at: - Our full income/expenses breakdown - Traffic stats - The apps and tools we use - Marketing strategy - How we'll grow in 2023↗

·@TomFrankly·Feb 6, 2023·essay·growth·income·marketing·notion

Today, my little one-person business crossed $3M in revenue. It took 1,187 days, I ran zero ads & operate at a 94% margin. Here are the 20 steps of my wild & strange journey: Hope it's helpful to someone. [🧵 thread]↗

Newsletter milestone: 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣💥 Some stats and learnings from my newsletter'ing journey so far:↗

·@lennysan·Oct 15, 2022·news·growth·milestone·newsletter

I've just published a completely revamped playbook for finding your first 1,000 users. This is based on researching 100+ B2C startups, talking to 30+ founders, and collecting tons of never before shared stories. This is def my new favorite post I've written. *Read on*↗

·@lennysan·Jul 26, 2022·tutorial·growth·playbook·startups·user-acquisition

signed some new team members, since we're small we basically grew 10% today 😂💪↗

·@saradu·Mar 1, 2022·news·growth·team

It took me 15 years to reach 81K on Twitter. On YouTube, we just did it in 4 years. I only started taking YouTube seriously 11 months ago. Now it’s allowing our team to practice, get feedback and improve quickly. Our content output is 3x. So what changed?↗

·@MengTo·Feb 10, 2022·essay·content-creation·growth·twitter·youtube

1/ How 7-Figure Newsletters Work Stoked to get back to writing about newsletters here. For easy reference, you can find all the threads below (will keep this updated). Based on months of dedicated research and dozens of interviews with operators across the industry. Enjoy!↗

What do Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, Hubspot, and Slack all have in common? They all have a North Star Metric that influences their long-term growth. This means the one metric that all business units focus on. Here's the breakdown 🧵↗

Before Udemy could succeed, we had to solve a chicken and egg problem. These problems are a constant dilemma for founders. (ie. Funding is needed to scale but scale is needed for funding.) Here's how we bumbled to a solution that kicked off our $3B business. **Read On**↗

·@gaganbiyani·Jan 22, 2021·essay·funding·growth·startup·udemy

I wrote 30 Twitter threads in 30 days. The goal? Learn how to craft interesting threads, and grow a following. It (mostly) worked. - New followers: +2.5K (+100% MoM) - Top thread: 373K impressions - Top tweet: 2.5K likes Here's what I learned. Quick thread 👇👇↗

Here's the quick story of how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR in <2 years. We did this with founder-led sales, and this also helped us become profitable. We then used a lot of these same techniques to build out our sales team. Let's go.↗

·@ChrisJBakke·Sep 24, 2020·essay·founder-led-sales·growth·saas·sales