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Most net worth numbers online are guesses. These pages only show figures a credible outlet published and the money events behind them (sale prices, stakes, copies sold, revenue), each with a source.

  • Marc Lou avatar
    Marc Lou net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Marc Lou. He publishes his revenue: TrustMRR shows $3.27 million in verified lifetime revenue across his 20 startups, including $1.27 million…

  • Dan Koe avatar
    Dan Koe net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Dan Koe. His revenue figures are self-reported and vary by source: he was projected at $2.5 million a year in a February 2023 interview with Noah…

  • Pieter Levels avatar
    Pieter Levels (levelsio) net worth

    No credible outlet such as Forbes or Bloomberg has published a net worth figure for Pieter Levels. He self-reports his numbers: in September 2026 he wrote that he passed $10M a year in revenue plus…

  • Tony Dinh avatar
    Tony Dinh net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Tony Dinh. He self-reports his numbers: he sold Black Magic for $128K and Xnapper for $150,000, passed $1M in trailing 12-month revenue in…

  • Nathan Barry avatar
    Nathan Barry net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Nathan Barry, and his ownership share of Kit is not public. The documented money facts are that Kit, which he founded and still runs without…

  • Derek Yu avatar
    Derek Yu net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Derek Yu, and Mossmouth has not published sales numbers for Spelunky 2 or UFO 50. The documented money facts are that Aquaria sold well enough…

  • Jonathan Blow avatar
    Jonathan Blow net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Jonathan Blow. The documented money facts are that he put about $200,000 of his own money into Braid, which brought in more than $4 million by…

  • Ali Abdaal avatar
    Ali Abdaal net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Ali Abdaal. He has disclosed his business numbers himself: in a January 2023 video he reported $4.6 million in revenue and $2.07 million in profit…

  • Justin Welsh avatar
    Justin Welsh net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Justin Welsh. He self-reports his revenue: his one-person business passed $10M in total revenue in June 2025, about five years and nine months…

  • Andrew Wilkinson avatar
    Andrew Wilkinson net worthC$350 million (US$253 million) (Bloomberg, citing a Tiny spokesperson, 2024)

    Bloomberg reported in July 2024 that Andrew Wilkinson was worth about C$350 million (US$253 million), a figure provided by a Tiny spokesperson that combines his roughly two-thirds stake in Tiny with…

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    Markus Persson (Notch) net worth$1.4 billion (Forbes (real-time billionaires list), 2026)

    Forbes lists Markus Persson's real-time net worth at $1.4 billion as of October 29, 2026, and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index put him at $1.5 billion in 2014. Nearly all of it traces to Microsoft's…

  • Kevin Powell avatar
    Kevin Powell net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Kevin Powell, and he has not shared revenue numbers. He has said that courses make up most of his income, with YouTube ads and Patreon a…

  • Marco Arment avatar
    Marco Arment net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Marco Arment, and the price he got for Instapaper was never disclosed. The documented money facts are that he sold a majority stake in…

  • Eric Barone avatar
    Eric Barone (ConcernedApe) net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Eric Barone, and he has not disclosed his revenue. What is documented is sales: Stardew Valley, which he made alone and now self-publishes, passed 41…

  • Toby Fox avatar
    Toby Fox net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Toby Fox, and he has never released official sales or revenue figures for Undertale or Deltarune. The documented money facts are small and specific…

  • Pat Flynn avatar
    Pat Flynn net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Pat Flynn. Unusually, he published his own income for years: his reports show $946,256 in gross revenue for 2014 and about $2.1 million in income for…

  • Lucas Pope avatar
    Lucas Pope net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Lucas Pope. The documented money facts are sales figures for Papers, Please, which had sold about 1.8 million copies by August 2016 and more…

  • Jason Fried avatar
    Jason Fried net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Jason Fried. 37signals, which he co-owns with David Heinemeier Hansson, is private and does not publish financials; Fried has described its annual…

  • Edmund McMillen avatar
    Edmund McMillen net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Edmund McMillen, and his revenue share from his games is not public. The documented money facts are sales: Super Meat Boy passed 1 million copies by…

  • DN
    Dong Nguyen net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Dong Nguyen. The best known figure is his own: he told The Verge in February 2014 that Flappy Bird was earning about $50,000 a day from in-app ads at…

  • MT
    Maddy Thorson net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Maddy Thorson. The documented money facts are that TowerFall Ascension brought in over $500,000 in its first month in 2014, and that Celeste…

  • Rob Walling avatar
    Rob Walling net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Rob Walling. His biggest documented exit, the sale of Drip to Leadpages in July 2016, was for an undisclosed price; the broker said it closed…

  • Danny Postma avatar
    Danny Postma net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Danny Postma. The documented money facts are that he sold Headlime to Jarvis (now Jasper) for a seven-figure sum in March 2021, and that…

  • David Heinemeier Hansson avatar
    David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for David Heinemeier Hansson; figures on celebrity net worth sites are estimates and not used here. 37signals, which he co-owns with Jason Fried, is…

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    Luca Galante net worth£40 million (The Sunday Times (Gaming Rich List), 2024)

    The Sunday Times put Luca Galante's wealth at about £40 million in its first Gaming Rich List in August 2024, ranking him joint 26th among UK gaming names. Vampire Survivors began with about £1,100…

  • SC
    Scott Cawthon net worth

    No credible outlet such as Forbes or Bloomberg has published a net worth for Scott Cawthon. The best documented money facts come from court records: his tax returns, reviewed by Game File, show more…

  • TS
    Tynan Sylvester net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Tynan Sylvester, and Ludeon Studios does not publish revenue. The documented money facts are that RimWorld raised CA$268,132 on Kickstarter in…

  • Josh Wardle avatar
    Josh Wardle net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Josh Wardle. His one documented money event is the sale of Wordle to The New York Times in January 2022 for an undisclosed price described as in the…

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    LocalThunk net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for LocalThunk, who stays anonymous, and his revenue share from publisher Playstack has not been disclosed. The documented money facts are sales: Balatro…

  • AR
    Andrew Spinks (Redigit) net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Andrew Spinks, and Re-Logic, the studio he founded, is private and does not publish revenue. The documented money facts are sales: Terraria sold…

  • DS
    Dan Salvato net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth figure for Dan Salvato. The original Doki Doki Literature Club is free, so the documented money facts come from the paid Plus edition, which sold 500,000…

  • AG
    Ari Gibson net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for Ari Gibson, and Team Cherry, which he co-founded and co-directs with William Pellen, does not publish revenue. The documented money facts are sales…

  • WP
    William Pellen net worth

    No credible outlet has published a net worth for William Pellen, and Team Cherry, which he co-founded and co-directs with Ari Gibson, does not publish revenue. The documented money facts are sales…

Former makers

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Sahil Lavingia

@shl United States394K followers

Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur

Gumroad, Flexile, Helper$17.8M/yr

former maker
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Chris Sawyer

United Kingdom

Scottish programmer who built Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon alone

RollerCoaster Tycoon, Transport Tycoon, Chris Sawyer's Locomotion