AI companion Tolan tops 100K paying subscribers, mostly 30-40s non-tech users
ajaymehta · x · 2026-09-08
Tolan founder ajaymehta revealed on the My First Million podcast that the AI companion app has surpassed 100K+ paying subscribers. Notably, most subscribers are people in their 30s and 40s completely outside the Silicon Valley bubble. He attributes this to building AI that gets to know users deeply to support everyday life — a signal that AI companionship's mainstream market is far broader than tech Twitter assumes.
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