Kaeda
Free · Sourced
← All cases
Empire Flippers
USA · remote · $0 VC · profitable · 2011
👤 Justin Cooke & Joe Magnotti (Two nomads flipped their own sites in public, podcasting every dollar — that audience became their first buyers and sellers.)🌐 site𝕏

A vetted marketplace for buying and selling online businesses — over $580M sold, built on 12 years of public trust.

Will it work? · our read
Rare trust moat. A bootstrapped marketplace that beat a scam-heavy market by selling trust — vetting, migration, 12 years of transparency. The catch: revenue is lumpy and deal-by-deal.
01How the money moves
Owner lists a vetted online business
EF verifies traffic & profit, then matches a buyer
Deal closes — EF keeps about 15% commission
02The numbers
$7.2M
2024 revenue
Latka
$580M+
businesses sold
EF site
about 15%
seller commission
EF fees
$580M+ is total marketplace volume (businesses sold), not Empire Flippers' revenue. GetLatka
Revenue $7.2M (2024), up from $4.9M (2023) — founder-stated, GetLatka, not independently audited. Over $580M in businesses sold is marketplace volume, not revenue. $0 raised.
🔒
The facts are free. The judgment is for members.
You've seen how the money moves, the numbers, and every source — free, on all 365 cases, always. Members get the part you can't look up: why it won · where the moat really is · how it dies · how it beats its rivals — plus the 🚀 launchpad prompt that turns any case into a plan for your business.
Sources stay public, always · cancel anytime · 14-day refund
(demo: preview the full teardown)
Sourcesupdated · daily
Empire Flippers — About Us: team, "$580M+ sold," "the first business we sold was our own."Commission structure: about 15% seller fee under $700K, tiered down.GetLatka — Empire Flippers: $7.2M revenue (2024), about 80 staff, founder-stated.FirstMRR growth story: bootstrapped marketplace, Joe Magnotti.Empire Flippers Podcast: 318 episodes 2011-2025, RSS adsenseflippers.libsyn.com (AdSense Flippers origin).
{"revenue": "Revenue $7.2M (2024) is founder-stated via GetLatka, not independently audited (not independently confirmed). $580M+ is total businesses sold (GMV), not revenue. About-15% commission, the 2011 AdSense Flippers origin and the podcast are from first-party pages."} We never score you.