Marc Lou says September was $217,071
Marc Lou reports $217,071 in September across 17 named products at 90% margin, solo. Factory's founder fired a board observer over a competitor, and Arvid Kahl sold Podscan to a customer.
Real money
Marc Lou says he made $217,071 in September, 90% margin, solo
Marc Lou posted his September breakdown: $217,071 across 17 products at a 90% margin, all run solo. HYROX at $112K inflates the month, but he says TrustMRR ($53K) and DataFast ($31K) both had their best month ever. The tail is long and tiny: PoopUp made $9.
I never felt confident because nothing really worked out for 7 years.
Factory says revenue is up 100x as it fires a board observer over Cognition
Matan Grinberg says he terminated Christopher Degnan as Factory board observer and advisor, after Degnan disclosed that what he had described as a casual chat with a Cognition executive was formal and recurring. In the same post Grinberg says Factory's team has grown 10x and revenue 100x year over year.
It feels as though ethics is being thrown out of the window in the AI era.
What changed under us
Arvid Kahl sold Podscan to a customer already running on its tech
Arvid Kahl says Podscan has been acquired by AudioHook, and he is staying on to lead the product. AudioHook was already using Podscan's tech to power part of its platform, which Kahl says gave the deal free alignment and established trust. He calls it closer to a merge than his FeedbackPanda exit, and no terms were disclosed.
Turning a customer into an acquirer has been a new one for me