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@IronBrands16
Building internet companies. Writing in public.
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    @IronBrands16
    Mar 27, 2025
    Me and bro at the office. Building a 1 Million/year company Almost half way: $465K/year 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟨 ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️ ⬜️ 1M
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    @IronBrands16
    Nov 12, 2023
    When people tell me I’m lucky to work with 2 engineers — I stop them right there. Two 10x engineers working together on a Sunday night ain’t no 2 engineers. It’s the equivalent of full-fledged, VC-backed engineering department Happy to work with these legends 🫶
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    @IronBrands16
    Apr 19, 2024
    Man this was about damn time
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    @IronBrands16
    May 20, 2025
    Me and bro cooking Berlin
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    @IronBrands16
    Oct 13, 2025
    Sorry not sorry
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    @IronBrands16
    Apr 30, 2025
    To all the people who said I got lucky: You are absolutely right.
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    @IronBrands16
    Jul 31, 2025
    ⚡️⚡️Breaking: Simple Analytics is the slowest company ever to reach 500k ARR. It took us 6 years and 8 months! We were so fucking slow that we didnt bother to raise funding or hire a team. Contrary to popular belief, this is not just the beginning. We are way to far in
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    @IronBrands16
    Jan 24, 2025
    Never spending January in europe again
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    @IronBrands16
    Jul 16, 2024
    👶 Me five years ago: • Funding • Pitch decks • Social status • Built next Uber • Create big team • Multiple co-founders • CEO, CT0, CMO 👨‍💻 Me now: • Build something cool that people love to use. Took a while for me to understand 🧘‍♂️
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    @IronBrands16
    Sep 24, 2025
    My gf thinks I'm a nerd, but my god she should see all of you here.
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    @IronBrands16
    Jul 2, 2025
    Me and Adriaan passed 500K/year in recurring revenue 🥳 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 2 people 🚀 1 startup ✊ 0 funding Only halfway...
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    @IronBrands16
    Feb 5, 2024
    I’ll say it once more you nutters: My actual name is Iron Brands! My actual firstname is Iron. My actual last name is Brands. 🇳🇱I’m dutch and my parents just never thought that I would be a sick high rolling madafakka that makes into the international waters Sorry for
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    @IronBrands16
    May 1, 2025
    I’ll die on this hill: Every company that is doing 1k MRR, can do 20K MRR Getting to that 1K MRR is the hard part
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    @IronBrands16
    Jan 5, 2024
    Why do all open-source projects have the same design and why do I really like it How do you call this? @twentycrm @calcom
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