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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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Kathryn Minshew at Startup School NY 2014

@ Y Combinator

Kathryn Minshew at Startup School NY 2014

06/20/14

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Emmett Shear

10/15/14

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Launching our show garnered national attention, and we experienced significant growth, hitting 150,000 unique visitors in the first month.

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Hosain Rahman

10/15/14

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We went from zero to seventy million in revenue in our first year after launching our product, which sold out in a few hours.

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Kathryn Minshew

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

Even with many flaws, we saw incredible user growth, with 20,000 visitors in the first month, which encouraged us to keep going despite initial setbacks.

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We went from close to zero in scale to 200 million in run scale in just six months, which was a crazy growth period for us.

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08/10/23

@ Y Combinator

We launched our closed beta on Twitter, which rapidly increased our followers from 50 to 10,000 and attracted 150,000 unique visitors a day.

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06/20/14

@ Y Combinator

We grew our user base from 350 to 2500 through press coverage and word of mouth, targeting college campuses for further expansion.

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11/12/21

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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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Facebook's growth was initially slow, taking a year to reach a million users, but this time allowed us to refine the product and ensure it met user needs effectively.

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Emmett Shear

06/16/25

@ a16z speedrun

Within two months of launching Twitch, we realized we had product-market fit, experiencing growth rates of 30-40% per month, which was a clear indicator of our success.