7 Companies with Freemium Business Model
Learn from founders and CEOs who have built successful businesses using a Freemium business model

Harry Halpin
CEO and Co-founder
How I'm building privacy technology that protects users from surveillance while making it accessible to everyone, not just tech experts.

Travis Kalanick
Co-founder & Former CEO
How I revolutionized transportation by digitizing the physical world and turning a simple idea into a global tech giant.

Luca Martini
Founder & CEO
How I built a YouTube marketing agency from scratch and scaled to a team of 15 through SEO and content marketing.

Zach Yadegari
Founder
How I built an AI-powered calorie tracking app that disrupted the fitness industry and scaled to $24M in yearly revenue.

Michael Truell
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor an AI native code editor built for professional developers. Under his leadership, Cursor became one of the fastest growing AI tools in devtech.

Verun Mohan
Co-Founder & CEO
Verun is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, an AI‑powered IDE that brings agentic capabilities to developers. Under Verun’s leadership, Windsurf has rapidly become a go‑to platform for building and iterating on code with AI.

Jordan Welch
Founder
From MW2 video edits to seven figure exits: Jordan Welch built a durable creator operator career through YouTube, drop shipping, and his SaaS company Viral Vault, favoring slow, steady compounding over hype.