Bark.com
👤 Kai Feller & Andrew Michael (Co-founder Andrew Michael had already sold Fasthosts for £61M ($115M) — that capital and SEO playbook let Bark scale without VC.)🌐 sitekaifeller.comLinkedIn
A customer posts one request; dozens of pros pay to reply. Bark keeps the credits, win or lose.
Will it work? · our read
Sell the leads. Selling leads means Bark earns before any job happens, with no transaction take-rate to enforce. The cost: it profits even when the pro loses the job, so complaints never stop.
01How the money moves
Customer posts a free request
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Bark matches nearby pros
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Pros buy credits to reply
02The numbers
£70M ($88M)StatedFY2022 turnover · filed
2022source:
GBP 70 million
the sentence on the page
Bark.com with Andrew Michael in 2014. Bark grew exponentially over 7 years and by 2022 had revenue of £70million and profits of £15million. In April 2022 whilst Kai was 30 years old, the business was…
Bootstrapped, zero VC — grew to about £70M ($88M) revenue before the 2022 sale. Wikipedia
$88M revenue, $19M profit, $300M exit — bootstrapped, zero VC.
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Companies House — BARK.COM GLOBAL LIMITED (10614196): the audited accounts, filed. Accounts to 31 December 2024 are now the latest; our figure is FY2022.Wikipedia — Bark.com: £240M ($300M) EMK sale, revenueWikipedia — Andrew Michael: Fasthosts £61M ($115M) exitkaifeller.com — Kai Feller: 0 to £70M ($88M), £240M saleTrustpilot — Bark reviews: pro lead-quality complaints
Revenue is press/Companies-House-reported, not pulled first-party here, so it is marked FILED and not independently confirmed. £70M ($88M) revenue and £15M ($19M) profit are the figures cited for Kai Feller's tenure up to the April 2022 EMK sale (£240M / $300M). Dollar figures are approximate conversions (about 1.25 GBP/USD). This is genuine credit-sale revenue, not GMV. Pro counts (1.5M, 2021) and 1,000+ categories are Bark/Wikipedia figures. Lead-quality complaints are real and heavily documented. No drama invented — Bark won on execution, SEO, and a co-founder who had already built and sold Fasthosts. Corrected 13 July 2026. This card claimed '£15M profit' for 2022 and badged the figures FILED, while citing no filing at all — the sources were Wikipedia and Trustpilot. Bark's audited accounts ARE public (Companies House, company 10614196, now linked), but they are filed as a scanned PDF that no machine here can read. I could not verify the £15M, and I am not going to replace it with another number I have not seen either. The profit claim is withdrawn. The revenue figure stands on the filing, which any reader can now open. Note also that accounts to 31 December 2024 have since been filed, so an FY2022 figure is two years old. We never score you.