Before Fanvue hit a $200 million run rate, Joel Morris and his co-founders were five months from running out of cash.

Fanvue co-CEO Joel Morris joins Supercompanies host Greg Shove to explain how a teenage YouTuber who uploaded for 600 days before getting any traction built a creator monetization platform now running at a $200 million revenue run rate with 130 employees.

Morris shares how Fanvue came within five months of running out of cash, the mindset that got him and his co-founders through it, and how one investor meeting and a later $22 million raise turned things around. He also talks about how Fanvue runs internally on Claude, why AI fluency is now a hiring pillar, and the company's push toward $1 billion in revenue.

Mentioned in this episode:

Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic: https://dailystoic.com

Connect with Joel Morris:

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/joel-morris-jmx

X: https://x.com/JoelXMorris

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYz27J7fd8lK_FKKTal_I-g

Fanvue: https://fanvue.com

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