Thread by @RaoulGMI

When @JuliaLaRoche discovered me on twitter languishing with less than 1000 followers I explained I was on a mission to democratise the kind of financial information only hedge funds and others got. The world I exclusively lived in.

But I felt people needed and wanted more. They wanted the paying field levelled so they could take control, with confidence and knowledge.

I didn't quite imagine it would blow up like this with 400,000 friends on Twitter. You helped create Real Vision and I can't thank you enough. Hopefully we've paid you back for being part of this incredible journey. Even if just on FinTwit.

RV now has nearly 100,000 subs, 500,000 subs to our YouTube channel, 1m monthly podcast downloads and we have the highest engagement rate of any media business in the world with 82% of people starting a video, watching it to the end (and they are around 60mins long).

We have a zero CAC too. Literally never had to pay for a customer. It has all been word of mouth. (We are building out marketing now, however with some amazing hires like @Cocopoppyhead )

We've been entirely funded by investments from our members with no VC or anyone else. Don't know any other company that can claim this, outside of crypto.

That is our special power.

I am honoured and humbled. We started creating content but what we built was a community.

RV Crypto is literally a game changer too as we've been able to offer it for free and entirely changed the quality of content in the space, with breadth and depth, free of biases.

I don't take the time to thank you all enough for helping me and @Damianhorner create something amazing and this beautifully crazy Fintwit community was the start of everything, and remains the core, whether you are an RV member or not)

I learned the way to interact with a community was to try to add as much value as possible. And that is what I try to do each and every day.

Real Vision has become another Super Massive Black Hole that sucks in everyone in the end...and that only happens because we work every day to add value extra to you.

We are busy building new member value from education to community tools and a lot more on top

Real Vision in 12 months time will be entirely different from today and that is for one reason only - we listen to what you need and want and try our damnedest to deliver it (and think up stuff you've never thought of too!).

Thank you, You 400,000 crazy Fintwit guys and girls!