Leo @leonagano.com · 29/05/2026What gets me about this: they never asked restaurants to care about food waste. They just made it profitable to sell instead of throwing it in the rubbish bin. Read the breakdown: goodbusinessbetterworld.substack.com/p/good-busin... 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 29/05/2026Every night, restaurants throw away food they couldn't sell. TGTG built a market to sell that food. The numbers: - 120M+ registered users - 175,000+ partner stores in 21 countries - 500M+ meals saved since founding - $162M revenue in 2024 - EBITDA positive, growing 32% year on year - $182M raised 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 29/05/2026A woman on a bus mentioned an app to Mette Lykke. That conversation turned into a $162M business. Mette had just sold Endomondo. She heard a stranger talk about an app that sells leftover restaurant food. Invested six weeks later. Became CEO six months after that. The app was Too Good To Go. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 26/05/2026Full breakdown in the newsletter open.substack.com/pub/goodbusi...open.substack.com📲 Good Business #15 • Wave Mobile MoneyIt cost 8%. Until it cost 1%. 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 26/05/2026The numbers today: - 20M+ monthly active users across 8 West African countries - 150,000+ agents in the field - $300M+ in total funding - $1.7B valuation (2021) — Francophone Africa's first fintech unicorn - Only African company on YC's top 50 highest-earning startups list for both 2023 and 2024 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 26/05/2026The reason incumbents couldn't win the price war they started: Orange built its cost structure for 8%. Wave built its cost structure for 1%. Cutting the price didn't change the infrastructure behind it. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 26/05/2026Two months after Wave launched in Senegal, Orange Money cut its rate to 0.8%. Its market share still fell 8.7% despite subscriber growth. Orange's own Africa head described the situation as "the Amazon model: we burn cash, hoping to kill the competition." They were talking about Wave. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 26/05/2026In West Africa, sending money to your family cost 6-10% of whatever you sent. Every time. That was not a market rate. That was the price of having no alternative. Two founders changed it. Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk launched Wave. Wave charges 1%. Flat. Deposits are free. Withdrawals are free. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/05/2026For this "come back" edition, I wrote about Plinq, a company for women's safety. Super interesting how Sabrine, a non-tech founder, gathered 10k users in the first 3 months and has reached $450k+ ARR open.substack.com/pub/goodbusi...open.substack.com🚩 Good Business #14 • PlinqApp has helped women avoid more than 200 life-threat situations 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/05/2026Long story short: 3 years ago, I launched a newsletter to highlight those companies and entrepreneurs. I put it on hold for a while and now, I'm relaunching it...open.substack.com🚩 Good Business #14 • PlinqApp has helped women avoid more than 200 life-threat situations 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/05/2026I then researched the high-impact industry, where startups are built to fight inequalities, racism, climate change, poverty, etc etc. There are so many startups and entrepreneurs in this niche, making money and doing good...open.substack.com🚩 Good Business #14 • PlinqApp has helped women avoid more than 200 life-threat situations 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/05/2026I've been working in tech for 30 years 😱 I've worked in industries like: telecom, beauty, banking, motorsport.... At some point, i realised that i was working without any purpose. That's when I decided to use my skills and do something meaningful... 100
Reposted by LeoAntonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 26/06/2025So cool to see new tools bringing traffic to my small projects Thanks @leonagano Very cool product! 101
Reposted by LeoAntonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 26/06/2025The product is foundersaround.comfoundersaround.comFoundersAround | A map of startup founders around the worldAdd yourself to the map, find founders near you, and see who's building where. 001
Leo @leonagano.com · 01/04/2025Hi, I'm shutting down a few side-projects unless anyone buys them ($700 for any of them): blueskyshots.com toucanfx.com worldslargestfartcollection.com / blog.worldslargestfartcollection.com rejectedbyyc.com owlendar.com Is anyone interested in any of these?toucanfx.com AI sound effect generator - ToucanFX.com Ding sound effect. Moan sound effect. Pop sound effect. Create whatever you want to. 010
Leo @leonagano.com · 27/02/2025I always dreamed of being a game dev. Since I was a child playing Atari for the first time. Cursor is making it real. "Create a new game. • Ghosts will be famous people like Elon Musk, Trump, etc" 120
Leo @leonagano.com · 22/02/2025I need to test it :) My mind can’t stop thinking about new projects 🤯 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025Cursor is great. Look what a couple of prompts have done with my website 010
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025Being a founder is not easy, but I don’t want to give up. If you’re curious, here’s the list of everything I’ve built 👇 leonagano.com 010
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025I built it because I don’t want to pay for another SaaS subscription just to test if SEO can help my projects grow. My projects aren’t making enough money. I don’t want to be cashflow negative just to experiment. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025Then I launched an AI sound effects tool - another failure. Last week, I launched owlendar.com, an AI tool that automatically researches keywords, plans, writes and publishes blog posts.owlendar.comOwlendar - Smart Content Calendar 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025Every time a project fails, you have to restart. New motivation. New goals. New dreams. Like many of you, I feel the frustration. Lately, I’m excited about AI. Last year, I bought a small AI text-to-voice project. It makes a little each month, and I’m trying to grow it. 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 21/02/2025Here I am, 45 years old, launching another product, trying to make some money… Since 2017, I’ve built 21 products. Only 4 made more than $100. Which means 17 failures. People say you learn from failure, but honestly? It’s exhausting. 200
Leo @leonagano.com · 18/02/2025Do you really have a SaaS/website if it doesn't have a gradient button? 🤣 The newest addition to my list of projects: Owlendar It finds the keywords, writes the titles, adds to the planner and writes the posts. I'm testing it with 2 websites. Is anyone interested in testing it? 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 18/02/2025Thank you @andrei.blue and @mubashariqbal.com Spending some time on Reddit can give a good result. 020
Leo @leonagano.com · 18/02/2025microns is a good one, will do it. Maybe Telegram/Slack groups might work as well! Thanks Pete 020
Leo @leonagano.com · 17/02/2025Does anyone know any marketplace to sell my Bluesky project @blueskyshots.com ? It's a small side project: website + Bsky bot + Chrome Extension It still doesn't make money. @mubashariqbal.com @petecodes.bsky.social ? 240
Reposted by LeoSavonian Fella 🇫🇮 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 @savonianfella.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Another great tool for Bluesky 🦋 www.blueskyshots.com Thanks @leonagano.com 🙏 021
Reposted by LeoCody Gunderson @coeyymarie.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I got a grade D on blueskyshots.com Check yours. @blueskyshots.comblueskyshots.comBlueskyshots - Stunning Visuals for Bluesky PostsCreate stunning screenshots for your Bluesky posts. Make your content stand out and engage your community with high-quality visuals. 021
Leo @leonagano.com · 17/12/2024I might be selling @blueskyshots.com It creates beautiful screenshots from posts and profiles - Website + Bsky bot + Chrome Extension Would anyone be interested? 100
Leo @leonagano.com · 15/12/2024I have a challenge accepted by Andrew from Acquire. I’m challenging him as his valuation tool gave me a 15x my annual revenue as an estimation for my startup anytospeech.com So far, I got a few interested but no LOI. It’s been a month… Let’s see how it’ll end up. 010
Leo @leonagano.com · 12/12/2024@rose.bsky.team you got an A on your Bluesky Facts. It's a tool that I created to transform your profile into a "Nutrition Facts" like. What do you think? @blueskyshots.com 020
Leo @leonagano.com · 11/12/2024I'm just deploying a new version. You might get an error if running it right now 100
Reposted by LeoMubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 11/12/2024Been a bit quiet recently, but been working on some cool stuff 😀 Coming soon to @blueskydirectory.com ... 3202
Leo @leonagano.com · 11/12/2024Thank you @petecodes.bsky.social for the shoutout on your Newslettter highsignal.io 010
Leo @leonagano.com · 11/12/2024Hi @katharinehayhoe.com I created a tool to generate your Bluesky Profile, like Nutrition Facts What do you think? bsky.app/profile/blue... 000
Leo @leonagano.com · 11/12/2024Hi @scott.hanselman.com I create this Bluesky bot that builds your Bluesky Facts, like a "Nutrition Facts". What do you think? 010
