2025 Year-End Review: Small Tech Company Achieves €6.5M Revenue with 65% Margins Using 13-Person Team
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Summary
The article is a year-end retrospective from a small tech company celebrating its 10th anniversary. It highlights the company's strong financial performance with €6.5 million in revenue and 65% EBIT margins, achieved by a team of just 13 people. The piece reflects on key accomplishments including a full infrastructure migration, numerous feature releases, and maintaining profitability while staying small. It emphasizes the company's philosophy of sustainable growth, avoiding venture capital, and focusing on building a lasting business rather than chasing rapid scale.
Key quotes
· 5 pulled€6.5M in revenue, 65% EBIT margins, a full infrastructure migration, and enough features shipped to make your head spin — all with 13 people.
Ten years in, still small, still profitable, still having...
Not that many companies still have double-digit growth after ten years! Most are either dead, laying off half their teams...
Yes, we're patting ourselves on the back. It's our blog, we're allowed to.
Strong growth, with best-in-class margins
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