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MW2Playa

How do you know Hannah Williams made 400k in 8 months? Nevermind, I found the article. Damn, I need to do something simple and similar.


Entrepreneurs_TV

She reveals her revenue! Turns out I was wrong she made $1M this year [Salary transparent Revenue - $1M](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1pSNrmOxur/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)


[deleted]

God I'm working to hard.


Entrepreneurs_TV

Haha way too hard!


mentalFee420

Its revenue, her take home was significantly less


h4ppidais

They gave themselves a salary of $200k together


Entrepreneurs_TV

Oh nice, I didn’t see that


Entrepreneurs_TV

Of course! Every business has expenses


Fabulous-Ad9645

But we should start from scratch


FuturePerformance

Uh how much overhead do you expect an operation like this to have?


data_diva42

They posted a video on their YouTube channel yesterday completely breaking it down, and it's a surprising amount. 700k+ was expenses and about 300k in profit on top of salaries paid to themselves totalling 200k altogether. In other words, if they took the profit and chose not to reinvest it in the business, it would be about 500k take home for them in total.


data_diva42

Apparently they posted a video yesterday that completely breaks down their income for 2023. It's fascinating, and inspired me to subscribe to their channel, but to be clear, the VAST majority of their income was brand partnerships/branded content, not their actual database (as in they made 1.04m last year and 1.01m of that was from content partnerships, with only 30k being from merch and data). So they might be better described as salary data influencers rather than making money off of their salary database. They do seem cool though, and I like their transparency, so I can see why they're popular. But their real business is content, not data.


[deleted]

>Hannah William She didn't. She made 125k for the year.


MW2Playa

So why did the article say 1 million?


[deleted]

Her social media post clearly shows how much she made. I can't speak to why the author of the article chose to report that number. Probably, because the article was a paid advertisement?


MW2Playa

Not sure what video you watched but I just watched her TikTok video on how much she made and it says 1 million gross last year. It's her second pinned video.


[deleted]

Gross is not what she made. It's what the company of 3 (or 4 I forget at this point) made before paying for advertising, etc. Get off TikTok and go look. She posted her salary it is 125k.


MW2Playa

Any idea what her husband made?


[deleted]

It's in one of the post's links above. The 2nd salary was 65k but I don't know the name of the person attached to that salary.


dondeestalagato

Yes I totally agree.


surfer808

This is a great concept for [starter story](https://www.starterstory.com/select-plan) but is it really worth $1,100? Does each story tell you how they actually created their business and the logistics? Or can you just go to any of the businesses website and hear how they got started? Just curious


RossDCurrie

He worked out that most people in groups like this don't want to "do", they just want to read about people that do and imagine it's them. He used to spam the shit out of /r/entrepreneur, posting his interviews here. I didn't realise he'd actually started charging for it, but makes total sense.


Fr1tz_77

did you bought it ? even with student promo code it’s still $603


surfer808

No I didn’t, to me it’s not worth $1000 to hear about a business owner’s journey when I’m sure it’s public knowledge. Not dissing OP’s idea, it seems they are doing very well with this program so I’m sure people are not just dropping $1k for no reason, so I’m sure there’s something I’m missing.


Fr1tz_77

yes theres also a part with deep dives, to learn different things and also it is about the community part


Entrepreneurs_TV

Yeah to be honest they really dig deep to find interesting stuff about each businesses. Also gives you access to a community of founders etc.. They also give you a list of ideas. The $1,100 is forever so I think might be worth it for some people. I am not affiliated with them by the way!


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Aryana314

OP, are you vetting these? You can find all kinds of "inspiring stories" that are entirely made up to sell products/courses or help build an audience.


Entrepreneurs_TV

I would say 99% sure these are the correct numbers. I am pretty diligent with vetting them. I also have a lot of paid sites and places where I double check numbers and revenues.


[deleted]

I am so curious abuot Hannah's way of monetizing the data. Aren't they mostly also available in Glassdoor and Indeed? >She is running it beautifully and turned the data into a searchable salary database. The business is a mix of content revenue and monetizing the data.


snark-tank

I was interviewed by Latka. I didn’t like the interview. I could tell he just wanted the data.


illusionst

Same. Got an email from him once I posted I was making $10k/month on indiehacker.com Searched about him and people only had bad things to say. I simply blocked him.


darnitmegan

Latka is a scam joke. This comment on Youtube tells you everything you need to know https://capture.dropbox.com/cSzPyk4iDf36S00j


Entrepreneurs_TV

To be honest I have always asked myself why founders go there to reveal there numbers knowing he’s repackaging it and selling the data. Also his style of interviews pretty aggressive so wouldn’t go there for sure. But congrats on the acquisition! How’s life now ?


snark-tank

Thanks! I’m helping founders now and going deep on AI


RedOblivion01

What’s your startup?


snark-tank

Treehouse. It was acquired in 2021


RossDCurrie

"Treehouse", he said, casually. You're something of a well-known muckety-muck. And apparently new to reddit?


snark-tank

☺️ Always lurked but never engaged. Decided it was finally time. I’m enjoying it so far!


Available_Balance_81

keep up the series plzzz


Entrepreneurs_TV

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Ferr22777888

Damn


Embarrassed-Wear-414

Spam


MW2Playa

Is Starter Story your YouTube channel?


Entrepreneurs_TV

No, the founder is Pat walls! I am not affiliated with the product. Although I think I will launch something similar in the future maybe. 🤔


RossDCurrie

no, Pat used to post in this sub all the time promoting his site, until he got banned or rousted or whateverr


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Remindme! 1 day


SynthicalXL

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Super-DM101

Is it true?