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Gaurav Misra

05/02/25

@ EO

We raised over $100 million in funding and have tens of millions of users, with over 100,000 daily active users.

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The App We Almost Deleted-Now a $500M Success | Gaurav Misra, Captions

@ EO

The App We Almost Deleted-Now a $500M Success | Gaurav Misra, Captions

05/02/25

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Jason Citron

04/29/25

@ a16z speedrun

We didn't take the approach of getting a billion users and figuring out how to make money later; we focused on how to monetize if we could get to 100 million monthly active users.

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Loriana Sardar

04/28/25

@ EO

We currently have 20 paying customers and have generated about $200,000 in annual revenue, while raising a round of $1.5 million.

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Kathryn Minshew

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

After launching, we grew from reaching about a hundred thousand people a month to a million and a half a month.

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Jessica Mah

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

We were confident about our startup, thinking we would get a lot of PR and funding, and we did receive significant media attention and raised $1.2 million in funding.

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Apoorva Mehta

06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

I raised over 55 million dollars in financing for Instacart and we're generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue every day.

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Y Combinator Cast

11/12/21

@ Y Combinator

We exited beta in June and already have 230 paying clients, expecting to eclipse 1 million in overall revenue for the year.

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Luis von Ahn

12/01/23

@ The Logan Bartlett Show

Duolingo has about 24 million daily active users, but we aim to reach 500 million, indicating significant room for growth.

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David Hua

10/11/18

@ Y Combinator

We raised two and a half million dollars on a twelve million dollar valuation after nine months of fundraising post-Y Combinator demo day.

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Tikhon Bernstam

09/09/17

@ Y Combinator

We raised $5.5 million after our demo day, which was a quick process due to our traction and the interest from investors.