We have no investors. No board. No VC money. Just 40 employees and $200 million in annual revenue. People keep asking when we'll raise. Why would we?
I ran Midjourney out of a Discord server. That's our entire distribution. No app. No website with a fancy landing page. Just Discord. And it worked better than any growth strategy I've ever seen.
I co-founded Leap Motion — a hand-tracking device that was supposed to change computing. It didn't. Midjourney taught me that timing matters more than technology. The tech was ready this time.
We're not trying to replace artists. We're trying to give everyone the ability to visualize what's in their head. Imagination has always been free. Now visualization is too.
OpenAI has 1,500 employees. Stability AI had 300. We have 40. Forty people generating $200 million in revenue. That's not a company — that's a leverage ratio.