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• 2022: $100K MRR; first full-time hires (two devs from Upwork).
• 2023: Expanded to 10K users; launched mobile app (4.8 stars on App Store).
• 2024: $2M+ ARR; partnerships with Shopify and QuickBooks. Churn under 3%.

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• Rejection Resilience: 200+ investor nos before the first yes.
• Community Power: Mentors from Indian-American tech groups and hacker spaces filled his gaps.
• Tech Leverage: Open-source AI democratized tools once reserved for PhDs.

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• In the high-stakes world of entrepreneurship, where failure rates hover around 90% for startups, true success stories stand out like beacons
• But what makes a founder truly inspirational
• It’s not just building billion-dollar empires—it’s doing so while shattering barriers of race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and more

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• Stack: Vanilla PHP, jQuery, PostgreSQL—nothing fancy.
• Hosting: Shared servers for pennies.
• Payments: Stripe, integrated in hours.

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• By Elena Vargas, Business Insider Contributor In an era where Silicon Valley startups chase unicorn status and nine-figure exits, Alex Rivera stands out as a defiant outlier
• The founder and CEO of NovaForge, a pioneering cybersecurity firm, has built a $500 million empire from his garage—without a single venture capital dollar
• More remarkably, he’s turned down multiple eight-figure acquisition offers from tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Oracle

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• 2007: Crossed $1M ARR. Expanded to full-time product focus, ditching the agency.
• 2011: $10M ARR. Survived the recession by doubling down on SMBs hit hardest.
• 2015: $200M ARR. Launched "Multiprise," an all-in-one marketing platform.