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1Oct 30, '24Despite the newfound success with my startup, my personal life has been challenging Earlier this year, when I went to visit New York, I was really excited to spend time with my fri28.9×591k4.8k1911.7k
2May 19, '24We are getting some serious acquisition offers What are things you would consider if/when accepting an acquisition offer? This would be my first exit ever, so any advice would be g23.5×481k76027656
3Oct 5, '23How to hit $2M ARR: 1. Struggle for 3 years straight with few results 2. Run out of cash, get funding from Jason Calacanis 3. Fly to Asia to extend runway 4. Thankfully get a littl21.2×433k1.5k63471
4Oct 16, '259000+ new users in one day 🥳 it's normally difficult to tell exactly what impact a viral video has on your business but occasionally a video will bang so fucking hard that it's ab18.4×376k86815274
5Feb 13, '23Wow this is actually interesting... A startup is copying our videos word for word and shot for shot 🤯 Our original video got 4.9 million views and theirs got 2.9 million views If 17.6×361k1.3k128524
6Oct 22, '254 years of burning cash got rejected by almost every VC had to move back in with parents posted hundreds of videos into the void but eventually everything works out :)17.6×359k2.2k46692
7Feb 11, '24🎉 Today we hit $300K MRR 🎉 For 3 years, we were stuck at $2K MRR, and we were constantly burning cash with very little to show for it Now it's looking like we could hit $1M MRR b17×347k1.8k35502
8Nov 9, '23A founder and his son had an AI startup that helped the family earn a living. One day, OpenAI released ChatGPT and tech twitter cried out “Your startup is fucked, what terrible luc17×347k1.1k108383
9Oct 2, '23Our startup gets cloned all the time If you're building in public and you get any semblance of success, you will inevitably also get cloned. Here's why you shouldn't be too worried16.8×344k95584836
10Nov 3, '25this time 3 years ago i was diagnosed with thyroid cancer it's been so long that i honestly forget i even had it 99% of the time grateful that time has erased most of the bad memor16.5×337k7.2k91226
11Jul 23, '24We just turned down multiple $20M+ acquisition offers There was a part of me that wanted to accept, but didn't feel right Time will tell whether we'll regret this decision or not �16×327k1.1k20277
12Nov 20, '23This time last year I was diagnosed with cancer It felt so unfair that I was having health problems just as our startup was finally starting to scale Thankfully, I am now cancer fr15.8×322k2.6k47127
13Jun 27, '23I just spent $91,000 to acquire a 3 month old start-up This is either the smartest or dumbest decision I've made 😋 🧵15.5×316k56329268
14Mar 25, '25When my startup was struggling, I moved back into my parents’ house, and they financially supported me Every once in a while, we'd have family gatherings, and I was the only 'young12.3×251k2.8k158747
15Feb 2, '25Pretty surreal that Jenni will be hitting the $10M milestone this week When we hit the milestone we will be flying our entire team out to Osaka to celebrate :) Took 3 long years to12.2×249k79613150
16Sep 9, '23How we got our first 100 paid users via Facebook groups step-by-step: 1. Join as many Facebook groups that your target users hang out in. We targeted groups with at least 10,000-1011.8×240k988812.5k
17Dec 1, '24We made ~$738k this month 🥳 - $633k from Jenni AI - $105k from our other products We are looking to acquire a few more EdTech products, so if you're looking to sell your tool send11.1×226k1.5k30863
18Jul 17, '24Grateful that we are in a position where we can solely focus on improving our product No more networking No more pitching No more fundraising We can get to the finish line just off10.8×222k1.2k16345
19May 20, '24The Korean startup ecosystem is pretty interesting Back when we were stuck at $2K MRR, I was at a pitch competition My advisor told me that my traction, product, and story didn't r10.6×216k75845368
20Nov 12, '23🎉 $200k MRR 🎉 Momentum is a powerful thing I genuinely think going from $10k to $200k MRR was way easier than going from 0 to $10K 🤷‍♂️ Simply because back then we had slow prog10.5×214k79318202
21Sep 24, '23It's ridiculously easy to go viral with your AI tool on short-form platforms All AI demos are inherently flashy/impressive because the underlying tech is so powerful So I'm very co10.5×214k52625976
22Jun 17, '25Acquired a startup 1 month ago and it's growing fast! Should hit $1M ARR by 2026 with 0 marketing spend 🫡 We've only fixed the conversion flow since acquisition, so there's still 10.4×213k6207237
23Jun 8, '24We had 10+ years of failure before any semblance of success Full Timeline: 1. Watch The Social Network on 14th birthday, get interested in startups 2. Start first business at 16 3.10.1×207k97336508
24Jan 14, '24How to go from 0 to $3,000,000 ARR in 18 months (step by step) I included all of our growth hacks that we used at each stage of our startup 1. The student cold caller ($0 - $5000 A9.6×197k1.1k812.7k
25Sep 25, '25Jenni has plateaued at ~$730k MRR for a year now Kind of hurts my ego to type it out, but I prioritized creating a profitable + robust startup over explosive growth I don't regret 9.6×195k89715372
26Aug 28, '23My time as a digital nomad is coming to an end 🥲 I met my gf, grew our startup to 1M+ users, and made lifelong memories ✈️ I don't regret a single day of my travels 🤠 I hope this9.5×195k88133224
27Oct 26, '24Our second product just hit $1M ARR 🎉 It was fun to retry all of our growth + product hacks on a newer startup and see that they were still effective Collectively, Jenni AI is now9.5×193k1.1k18511
28Sep 14, '24Our churn may have caught up with our growth One year ago we were at $160k MRR and we forecasted that because of our churn, we'd have growth issues at $550k MRR We internalized thi9.4×193k75816465
29Oct 29, '25it took us around 46 months to hit $1M ARR btw it may seem like everyone on the timeline effortlessly/instantly hits this milestone, but that's not normal or realistic i was stuck 8.8×180k1.7k47364
30Mar 31, '24March 2024: 💸 $390k MRR (+19.2%) 💰 $526k total revenue (+28.1%) 👨‍🎓 26.6k active subs (+19.7%) 👋 250k signups (+50.2%) When we hit $5M ARR (in 2 weeks) I will write up a post 8.5×173k94818529
31Dec 10, '23How 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' In8.5×173k822622.2k
32Jul 18, '23Throwback to when I realized I could eat solid foods again 🥲 This cancer diagnosis was so painful because I was diagnosed right when our startup was getting a ton of momentum The 8.4×173k882736
33Jan 7, '25I ran a TikTok agency on the side and we hit ~$300,000 ARR We closed it down this week We had to close it down for a few reasons: 1. It was taking too much time. I have to spend 958.4×172k75011643
34Apr 2, '25March 2025: $771k MRR Jenni AI: $658k MRR Stealth 1: $106k MRR Stealth 2: $6k MRR Running a multi-product startup is challenging, but I think we're slowly getting the hang of it :D8.4×171k69819323
35Jan 28, '24Video is out now :)8.3×170k63729307
36May 13, '24We're never too worried about our startup getting killed by OpenAI because we operate in a gray area Many of the largest startups in the world started this way: Uber, Coinbase, Air8.2×168k54232482
37Apr 13, '24We've built our startup in public, from day one, and today we hit $5M ARR 🥳 Took 4 years to go from 0 to $1M ARR Now we add $1M ARR every 38 days Very proud of the team + what we'8.1×166k1.1k24322
38Jul 20, '25We've just acquired RateMyDorm by jedcal 🎉 With this partnership, we can help students on day 1, right after they arrive at their dorm Jed will be joining the Jenni team and helpi8.0×164k6169110
39Mar 5, '24It took us 1678 days to hit $4M ARR 0 to $500k ARR: 1216 days $500k to $1M ARR: 186 days $1M to $1.5M ARR: 62 days $1.5M to $2M ARR: 60 days $2M to $2.5M ARR: 43 days $2.5M to $3M 7.8×160k80824425
40Feb 5, '25$10M ✅ Feels good :D Product will continue to improve and new milestones will continue to be hit Thanks everyone for following along!7.7×157k75813131
41Sep 9, '25this is one of our 80+ creators 🥳7.6×156k77923954
42Mar 24, '23We went from 0 to 1 million users in 9 months 😋 Here are all of the growth hacks we used to scale our startup 🧵7.3×150k9171002.2k
43May 4, '25How I would choose my next startup idea: 1. It must be a product in a growing market. Startups can take years or even decades to fully develop, don’t risk creating an amazing produ7.3×148k1.5k1082.4k
44Jul 29, '25Just closed another acquisition 🎉 Really trying to build a super team of EdTech founders to crush it this Back To School season 🤠 Will announce the name of this startup + why we 6.8×139k52214159
45Jun 18, '25Details of our Acquisition (revenue multiple, amount paid, structure, etc) Jenni paid: - $250k upfront - $200k in Jenni stock - $300k in deferred payment over 9 months Acquired sta6.7×137k58910431
46Nov 26, '24In the early-stages of my startup I lived with my parents and we only had one table in the living room I would always tell my parents when I had an important VC pitch and they’d pa6.7×137k1.5k87565
47May 2, '25We hit $793.3K MRR in April! 🥳 ✍️ Jenni AI — $667.5K 🤖 Stealth 1 — $109.7K 🧑‍🏫 Stealth 2 — $6.2K ⌨️ New Acquisition — $10.5K Growth was a bit lackluster this month, but now tha6.3×129k1.2k20526
48Jun 4, '24VC's told us that the college market was too risky so we built for researchers too Now we have a 50/50 parity of undergraduate and researchers They said we didn't have enough opera6.2×127k71829273
49Sep 30, '23September 2023: 💰 $184k revenue 💸 $161k MRR 👨‍🎓 +2.7k active subs 👋 +145k signups October goals: 💸 $200k MRR (~25% growth) ✈️ Fly to New York 🤠 Make friends in NY We have so6.1×124k4809105
50Mar 19, '23Our startup hit 1 million users today⚡️ One year ago, we were stuck at ~65 In that year, we struggled, we pivoted, and I even got cancer 😅 Despite the hardships, I'm grateful for 6.0×122k6782546
51Sep 20, '23Today we hit $150,000 MRR!! 🎉 We've finally made it out of summer break and we're seeing Jenni traffic return to pre-summer levels 😎 Very excited to scale like crazy this Fall Qu6.0×122k64216129
52Nov 5, '25When I was part of a korean accelerator there was this mentor that was supposed to meet with me weekly, but he just never showed up Unfortunately, he realized that in order to get 5.9×120k7521591
53Dec 10, '24Our 2nd product just hit $100k MRR 🥳 It's been super fun re-living these early growth milestones again via acquisitions Will likely be finishing up 2-3 more acquisitions this mont5.8×118k77512248
54Jul 1, '24End of June update: $533k MRR MRR growth has slowed due to summer break, but churn is down (-5.2%), LTV is up (6.6%), and retention is up (~3%) All signs point to an extremely stro5.6×113k63312218
55Aug 4, '23Our startup just hit $1.5M ARR! 🥳 Coincidentally, today is also my girlfriend's birthday! 🎂 Will celebrate by taking her to an extra fancy restaurant tonight haha 🤠5.5×113k6681771
56Jun 24, '23🎉 Our startup hit $100,000 MRR 🎉 Until now, we've relied heavily on short-form for growth (TikTok, IG Reels, YT Shorts) 🎥 But these past few months, views and impressions have b5.2×107k45414192
57Aug 16, '25A tale of two founders: Marc wants to build 100 startups I want to 100x my one startup Marc likes being a solopreneur I want to keep expanding my team Marc loves working from home 5.2×106k72212196
58May 23, '24We got our first $100k angel check exactly 3 years ago Today, we hit $500k MRR! We now make the equivalent of that check every 6 days Cool milestone just in time for summer break G5.1×104k77112136
59Dec 25, '24This year could be characterized as the year of almost. I almost sold my startup at age 27. It would have been a life-changing amount of money, but I just couldn’t sign on the dott5.1×104k1k14359
60Jan 18, '23Someone asked me for "advice" and then cloned my startup Down to the copy, icons, and functionality 😵‍💫 They saw us building in public, asked for help, and then copied everything5.0×102k4511755
61Nov 16, '23Our startup has crossed 2 million users 🎉 We were at ~200 users last year (in June) 10,000x growth Great job team! 🤠4.9×101k549867
62Jun 2, '25We made $818,793 in May 2025 ✍️ Jenni: $689,841 🤖 Stealth EdTech: $107,062 ⌨️ New Acquisition: $14,870 🧑‍🏫 Stealth B2B: $7,020 These numbers are about to be a lot less pretty wi4.9×99k87611387
63Aug 7, '24It surprised me when I learned that most "growth experts" literally can't turn $1 into $1 I would give them a budget of $10,000 and they would come back with less than $1,000 of re4.8×99k97241238
64Jun 1, '23🎉 Our startup just hit 1M ARR 🎉 $83,333.33 is a random number to anyone that isn't a founder But to entrepreneurs like us, it's a huge milestone Such a wild ride, thanks to every4.8×99k7702180
65Dec 12, '23How to celebrate $3M ARR 😋4.8×98k649451
66Mar 20, '25I broke down how to do influencer marketing and UGC in latest Starter Story video :) I hope it is helpful to you!4.7×97k1.1k521.3k
67Feb 24, '23👕16: 1st business 🙅‍♂️17: Business failed 🏫18: Graduated High School 📈19: UC San Diego + 1st startup 🥲20: 1st startup and 2nd startup failed 💸21: Dropped out + 3rd startup 💰4.7×95k5012475
68Feb 16, '24Jenni AI was just featured on the My First Million Podcast!! 🤠 My phone is blowing up right now with all my friends congratulating me haha I've been a genuine fan of the pod so th4.5×91k5381367
69Jan 28, '25I didn't have a ride after the shoot, so the videographer dropped me off at a nearby grocery store At that point, I was concerned I’d just ruined my credibility because I randomly 4.3×89k60032371
70Dec 11, '23🎉 Today we hit $3M ARR 🎉 Grateful for the journey thus far and very excited for the absolutely wild marketing plays that we have planned in January 😋 Next goal: $5M ARR by March4.3×88k597593
71Jul 26, '24My first paying user ever ended up blocking me on all socials and threatened to sue me Five years ago, I cold called every single SEO agency in California and told them that AI wri4.3×87k87338354
72Jun 30, '25We made $660,423 in June 2025 ✍️ Jenni: $537,928 🤖 Stealth EdTech: $97,488 ⌨️ New Acquisition: $19,759 🧑‍🏫 Stealth B2B: $5,248 Unfortunately, a fair amount of churn due to summe4.1×84k81129384
73Sep 2, '25My startup is currently at $713K MRR 🫡 Our next play is to bundle up all of our great EdTech tools so students can pay one affordable price and get amazing value Bundle will be la4.1×84k67112323
74Nov 1, '25hit $775k MRR this month (up +$52K)! we're now back in striking range of hitting $10M ARR 🤠 im very bullish, products are feeling slicker than ever and our ugc engine is starting 4.1×83k6079149
75Sep 12, '24We just hit 4M users 🥳 Summer was painful but we've survived + growth is slowly picking back up Usually traffic continues to increase until December, so hopefully 5M is just aroun3.8×78k550774
76Jun 1, '24May 2024: 💸 $505k MRR (+9.2%) 💰 $612k total revenue (+12%) 💳 $312k total costs (-4.1%) 👨‍🎓 35.1k active subs (+10.3%) 👋 272k signups (-9.7%) Seasonality + bugs held us back a3.7×76k4547208
77Dec 27, '232023 stats: 💸 $260K MRR (+440.8%) 💰$1.95M revenue (+623.2%) 👨‍🎓 17.27K active subs (+379.5%) 👋 1.86M signups (+292.9%) thank you to everyone who has followed our journey this 3.6×73k5266134
78Aug 29, '25Jenni AI has acquired Scholar AI let’s gooooo 🥳 Scholar AI has over 700k users, $22k MRR, and is one of the most popular GPTs on the GPT store Super excited for the founders Damon3.6×73k46013142
79May 12, '24how to go from 0 to $5M ARR guide is done will be posted tomorrow morning i hope it provides some value to you!3.4×70k63516619
80Aug 28, '25just acquired another startup (this time 7-figure deal!) i think we now have all the pieces for an amazing bundle of EdTech tools 🤠 will post all the details tomorrow 🫡3.3×67k463783
81Jun 26, '25Two years ago I woke up to my friends frantically messaging me that a huge competitor just entered my space I opened Instagram to see that a brand new AI writing product somehow pa3.3×67k48519244
82Sep 13, '24Digital nomad life is paused for now I signed a 6 month lease in Korea because our next stage of growth is going to be quite challenging I think having a home base, a healthy routi3.2×66k524569
83Feb 7, '25Strange thing I noticed after sponsoring hundreds of influencers: Creators that turned down our money and talked about our product for "free" added vastly more users than influence3.2×65k50418665
84Feb 18, '25We did it :') Our churn rate is finally in the single digits! If you have a B2C AI SaaS, you know how much of a battle this was Huuuge shoutout to the Jenni team ❤️ Now...can we hi3.2×65k4558101
85Aug 4, '244 years difference! Last time, I was quite poor, lived off of baguettes, and I had to cut my trip short because I ran out of money 😅 This time, I can afford non-baguette foods for3.2×65k639662
86Nov 30, '24I dropped out of college in late 2017 One day I got tired of classes and just left without telling anyone It was hard for me to explain why I dropped out, so I'd starve all day and3.2×65k67617171
87Mar 7, '25Pretty cool we got featured as one of the top lean AI companies! We actually have 9 employees so we're closer to $1,111,111 rev/employee 😅 I assume a lot of great companies are mi3.1×64k46019397
88Feb 29, '243 milestones: 1. Our startup has now made over $3M 2. We cracked $400k revenue in February 3. We broke our daily revenue record today with $19k in 24 hours Dec + Jan were lackluste3.0×62k47211127
89Jun 28, '25Our third tool has now passed $10K MRR! We were able to hit $10k MRR this time around by just focusing on how to convert more of our free users to paid Here's how we did it: Identi3.0×61k53820767
90Jun 9, '25How to get your first customer (and millions more) I wrote this after talking to a friend who’s spent a year trying to monetize his app When I asked how he’s monetizing, he said: “3.0×61k621371.2k
91Feb 27, '23🎉 The surgery was successful and it's very likely I am now cancer-free!! 🎉 A short video about the journey 🎥 Really appreciated everyone's support through this whole ordeal 😭 N3.0×60k6511425
92Sep 18, '24When I was a kid I came home to a terrible stench inside my house I walked into the living room and saw my mother trying to salvage a piece of beef by cutting off the rotting parts2.9×58k53816110
93Jul 19, '24I feel like all CEO's should do customer service and refund calls, it's the fastest way to understand the highest priority things to work on I get a lot of surprised reactions when2.6×54k49026180
94Sep 11, '23My parents flew out to Korea to support me during my hospital visits ❤️ Doctor says my blood tests are completely healthy post thyroid surgery and lowered my daily medicine dosage 2.6×52k470412
95Sep 26, '22My story of dropping out of college and building Jenni AI 🦄 #buildinpublic #startups #jenniai2.4×098663287
96Oct 8, '25today i turned 29 🤠 used to be the youngest kid at every startup event but now it's not rare that i'm one of the oldest time moves so fucking fast man 😅 if anyone has advice for 2.2×44k460836
97Aug 9, '241. Find out who loves your product the most 2. Find out where they hangout 3. Make content, network, sponsor, make partnerships with everyone in that space 4. Improve product from 2.1×44k53843502
99Dec 4, '22Got my CT scan results back 🥰 My cancer is localized and has not spread anywhere else ☺️ This means my chance of survival is near 100%!! No tweets about startups or growth today, 1.0×060556

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