How do you go from 0 to $30 million in ARR in just 3 years while purposely losing money on every single free user?

Richard White is the founder and CEO of Fathom, a free AI meeting assistant used by hundreds of thousands of professionals daily.

After running UserVoice for nearly two decades, Richard entered the hyper-competitive AI transcription war against giants like Zoom, Otter, and Firefly. Instead of playing the traditional VC game, he gave the product away, lost $50 per user, and built an absolute rocket ship that dominates through bottom-up distribution.

You'll learn:

— Why purposely losing $50 per user per month was the ultimate growth hack.

— The 5-step framework to sequence risk (Retention -> Onboarding -> Acquisition -> Referral -> Monetization).

— How to hit $100k MRR in your first 30 days of monetization.

— Why Richard hired three enterprise salespeople before writing a single line of code for the premium product.

— The exact strategy to gamify fundraising by reserving 15% of your Series A for your users.

— Why open data, MCP servers, and local agents are replacing walled-garden SaaS models.

— How to scale to $30M ARR by pricing bottom-up teams at $25 per seat.

— The reality of stepping down as CEO from a $10M ARR company after 18 years.

 

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UavacWr2jbQ 

Connect with Richard:  https://fathom.ai/

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