$0 to $12k/m in 10 months
October 12, 2025
Well, where do I start?
Back when I started, I was doing my semester abroad and after partying for a month straight, I had this moment like: Ike, you're wasting your life away. You want to be an entrepreneur one day, and what you're doing right now isn't aligned with the person you want to become.
I had started different things before. I have always dreamed of making money online, but I kept jumping from one shiny object to the next (dropshipping, newsletters, affiliate marketing, etc.). All failed, and I made little to no money.
Then I came across this guy on YouTube talking about AI & Automation and was like fuck it, I'll give this a shot. I told myself I'd follow his videos strictly for one month, and if I made any money in those first 30 days, I'd go all in (made my first $ on day 6, lol).
Here's what happened:
Revenue
- October '24: $150
- November '24: $750
- December '24: $641
- January '25: $0
- February '25: $2,705
- March '25: $1,661
- April '25: $5,001
- May '25: $4,213
- June '25: $7,500 ($4,200 MRR)
- July '25: $8,372
- August '25: $11,982 ($7,200 MRR)
Other highlights
- Had dinner with Bryan Johnson
- Made new friends doing business
- Met insanely interesting people
- Got offered a 6-figure job twice (turned it down)
- Know exactly how to go from 0 to 1 again
- Will never in my life have to work for someone else again
- Clear path to hitting $15k/month by end of year… maybe even $25k best case
I'm finishing my last semester at uni right now. It's crazy to think my business already makes more than most of my professors earn in a year and next year, I'll probably be making 3x what my friends from uni will earn in their first jobs.
It's been a hell of a ride. Lots of ups and downs, crazy hard work, and small burnouts along the way. I want to encourage everyone to stick with it and grind it out.
It's so worth it.
The first 4 months were really slow for me (as you can see in the revenue breakdown), but then things started to pick up at a wild pace.
If you stick to the basics you will win. For me, the key shift was realizing I hadn't made revenue-generating activities my #1 priority. Once I went back to basics, things took off. I reflected on what was actually working… Upwork, for example, was working great. So I just doubled my volume and closed 4 clients in the last 2 weeks just from Upwork.