Zimbabwe Founder's $2.5M App
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A story about Joseph Mambre, who moved from Zimbabwe to England and built a successful fitness app called GymStreak by himself.
"This guy Joseph Mambre is super fascinating. He's from Zimbabwe, moved to England when he was 12 or 13 - that was the first time he experienced the internet. He taught himself how to code, taught himself design, and then launched GymStreak.
At first it was just an app for tracking workouts. Then he got his buddy to wear one of these suits so he could do 3D visualizations of all the exercises. He has hundreds of them, and his app is free to use with some premium features. It tracks your workouts, uses AI to suggest which weights you should do for the next workout, and shows 3D models of what proper exercises look like.
In year one (2021) he did $300,000. In year two he did $2.5 million, and his goal in the next 2 years is to get to 15-20 million a year in revenue. He's the only employee. He got most of his users from Facebook and TikTok ads, hiring consultants to help him learn that.
Right now he said 'I'm taking the summer off, so our growth this year might still only be 2.5 or 3 million in revenue because I don't feel like buying ads or staying on top of that. We just had a kid.' It's super fascinating to see a guy who came from Zimbabwe, didn't use the internet until he was 12-13, and taught himself how to do all this."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.