Live Tourney · B2B · tournament software for golf courses
Keep your job and build every morning from 6 to 9 a.m.
Reached ~$350K ARR before quitting; became unsustainable with two young kids
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What they did
Kept a full-time senior engineering job at Meta for salary and benefits while building nights and weekends; the main block was 6:00-9:00 a.m. before work. Quit only once the business was at ~$350K ARR and doing both was no longer sustainable.
What happened
Grew the business to ~$350K ARR without giving up salary, but running both with two young kids became unsustainable, so he quit.
- Stage
- early
- Effort
- About 4 years
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