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👤 Jake Gaba (Stanford GSB student who took a year off, bought a $25K site already ranking with a 2% margin loan — acquired, didn't build.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
'Be in the water to catch the wave' — he ranked across every survival game before Palworld broke.
Will it work? · our read
Timing over novelty. He didn't invent game hosting. He bought a $25K ranked site and cloned it across every survival game, so the next viral hit landed on servers he already ranked for.
01How the money moves
Rent dedicated servers wholesale (Hetzner, Servers.com)
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One control panel auto-provisions a private server per game
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Gamers pay monthly to rent a private world
02The numbers
$82K
MRR (2025)
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$25K
bought it, 2021
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+50%
MRR in 3 days
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Revenue is founder-disclosed via Starter Story, not audited filings. Starter Story
About $988K ARR / $82K MRR (2025), up from $63K total revenue in 2021.
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Starter Story: Palworld took ARR from about $500K to $1M in 3 days (2025)Starter Story: left Stanford, bought the site for $25K, tripled revenueServers.com customer story: infrastructure and originPodcast #42: Jake Gaba on acquiring and growing the SaaSBoringCashCow: one-person host generating about $1M/yr
Revenue is founder-disclosed via Starter Story (about $82K MRR / $988K ARR, 2025) — self-reported in interviews with a connected dashboard, not audited filings. Purchase price ($25K, Feb 2021) and the Palworld surge ($43K to $75K MRR in 3 days, Jan 2024) come from the same interviews. Yearly revenue (2021 $63K, 2022 $340K, 2023 $515K) is from Starter Story's figures. Rival bar weights are our illustrative estimate of relative market size, not measured. 'Our read' tags mark interpretation; the Palworld timeline, acquisition story, and quotes are documented first-party. We never score you.