💰 Passed $10M/y in revenue + investment gains this year

I've always been aggressively increasing my profit margins to as high as possible, especially the last few years, and especially this year where I've reduced my SaaS dependencies to just a handful of companies by vibecoding my own replacements

It's now about 94.5% profit!

Spend less -> lower costs -> more profit -> more money saved -> more money to invest -> more % returns on investments

And at some point that investment return starts to pass by your business revenue which it has for me for about a year now

Most of my investments have been simple ETFs like Vanguard S&P500, but also a few lucky stock and startup bets that worked out:

Back in 2022, I couldn't get any available GPUs, so I thought it might be smart to buy Nvidia if there's such a shortage and that was a good bet too

Then back in 2023 @dannypostma recommended me to invest in the companies we used for our AI inference for our photo AI apps, so I did that too. First I invested in @replicate and then also @FAL

From then I just asked every app/service I used if I could invest, like @cursor_ai in 2025 which then got acquired by @spacex recently!

My business revenue has remained very stable at about $200K-$250K/mo, but even with that investment returns have now surpassed that

Investments fluctuate a lot so some years it's up some years it might be down a lot (who isn't expecting a big crash at some point?), and most investment gains are unrealized (I never sell!), so keep that with a big grain of salt!

I keep my revenue/gains together with my profit margin and my sleep score in my situation monitor dashboard, as those are equally important :D

Many people in the last decade told me to spend all my money, either personally or with my business to grow it, we don't know how that would have ended up, maybe my companies would be bigger, but I'm happy I did it in my own lean profitable healthy way and it ended up great I think! 🙏😊

Here's how my situation monitor (or part of it) looks 😂

Sleep score mixed with revenue and profit margin and last work out

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