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150 members and $15,000 in a day and a half, off five years of audience — and the founder's own verdict is that it is the least useful story he could tell you
150 members · about $100 a member
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The interviewer opens with the number everyone wants: Founder Circle, launched recently, zero to $15,000 in about 36 hours. Tibo Louis-Lucas immediately talks it down.
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Data credibility: Founder interview, self-reported and unaudited. The $15,000-in-36-hours figure was stated by the interviewer; Tibo did not dispute it and supplied the 150-member count himself, immediately attributing the result to his existing audience. The roughly $100 per member is our arithmetic on those two numbers, and the transcript never says whether the payment was one-time or recurring, nor what platform or format the community uses. Surrounding figures used for context are likewise the founder's own: an $8 million sale of Tweet Hunter and Taplio to Lempire, a portfolio "over $1 million a month", ~900 Twitter followers at the start, and roughly $30,000 in affiliate payouts in one month. No dashboards, contracts or third-party data were shown. Nothing here was verified independently, and the founder's stated uncertainty about whether the community will continue is quoted rather than resolved.
The 150 founding members came from one place: an X audience built over five years, cashed in over a weekend.
The first dollars arrived within hours of the announcement, and $15,000 spread across 150 members averages about $100 a head — the top of the $49-to-$99 band Tibo uses across his products.
This is the honest part: the community's own flywheel has not started turning yet.
For a community the quiet stretch does not arrive at the start, it arrives around week three, and Tibo names both versions of it: "it can either go completely silent and no one's talking, or you have this weird guy that is very painful and you don't know what to do with him." Neither failure announces itself.
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