this 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 memories, and even more grateful to be cancer-free! 🤠
David Park
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David Park
@Davidjpark96
founder of jenni ai
tweets about growth and my startup learnings!
- How to go from 0 to $5M ARR profitably (step by step) Here is every growth hack we used for each of our distribution channels: - Organic Short-form content - Influencer Marketing - SEO - Paid Ads Organic Short-form content The most important thing to remember in this new age
- Despite 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 friend But when I arrived, I immediately got an acquisition offer, and I spent the whole month locked
- When 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 'young' person there because my cousins were busy earning degrees or working There was one humiliating
- This 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 free and our startup is ~4x larger than when I was diagnosed Life is unpredictable 🤷♂️
- 4 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 :)
- 🎉 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 by end of 2024 (and doing so profitably) Don't give up 🤠
- it 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 at $2k MRR for 3 years!
- How 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 little bit of traction 5. Get diagnosed with cancer, kills momentum 6. Get surgery to remove thyroid 7.
- We 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 send me a DM! The race to $10M ARR continues! 🫡
- In 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 pack up their things and go to their room so I could focus on my meeting I would be anxious as fuck
- How 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 product just to have the user base dry up. 2. The value of the product must increase over time. For
- Wow 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 you look at it side by side, it's almost identical🪞 Have you ever seen copying this blatant?
00:00 - We 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 that our big acquisition is done we're going to be scaling growth across all products in May! This
