🔗 My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven

2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.

It’s also been wild at RevenueCat. My journal is full of stories that could fill a whole book or even a few HBO Silicon Valley seasons. Some are inspiring, some are hilarious, and others are honestly gnarly. Due to limited space, the need for context, and respecting everyone’s privacy, I’ll cover only the most interesting topics at a high level.

Looking back, it was a good year for RevenueCat. Actually, a great one. Perhaps our best since 2020. We have plenty to celebrate:

• We accelerated again and we hit our C10 revenue plan.
• We made our first acquisition and welcomed an amazing founder to the team.
• We signed our first multi-million-dollar contracts.
• We went to more than 20 events around the world…
• …including hosting our own conference, featuring its own award ceremony.
• We became the #1 payments SDK on iOS.
• Our swag went to 11.
• We launched over 80 user-facing features.
• We showed up in Times Square and along Highway 101.
• We raised a mini Series C and welcomed two new board members.
• We landed in Japan for the first time.
• Our API grew beyond 2B requests per day.
• We are processing nearly twice the TAM we had when we started the company.
• OpenAI is a friend of the cat.
• We continued building a winning team. We hired people who were on my to work with bucket list even before we started the company.

By all the metrics, 2024 was our year of shipping and selling. We absolutely helped developers make more money.

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