Since launching in early 2022, former President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social took in $3.7 million in net sales, and lost $73 million.
The numbers are the first time that any internal financial details on the social platform have been shared publicly, and they suggest that while Trump has made Truth Social his primary social media platform, it has not been translating into meaningful revenue for the tech startup, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).
The numbers were revealed in a new financial disclosure from TMTG’s SPAC merger partner Digital World Acquisition Corp. The filing revealed that in 2022, Truth Social lost $50 million on just $1.4 million of net sales, and through the first 6 months of this year it brought in $2.3 million, but lost $23 million.
The financial situation of TMTG is such that “TMTG’s independent registered public accounting firm has indicated that TMTG’s financial condition raises substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern,” according to the filing.
I bet that’s a lowball number.
I find it unfathomnable that he’s lost ten million on it.
It’s only been around for what? 2 years? 40-some employees, most of whom are probably paid shit wages…. Even at 100k average salad … that’s only 4 million…and apparently they’re loosing 1.7 million, each month. (Or we’re/are)
Wooopz…
You may be overlooking the cost of infrastructure. Running servers is a huge overhead.
And whatever else they can toss on the debt pile so they can write off as much as possible from taxes.
Looking at cloud billing pages makes me long for the days of owning your own racks.
And you can’t lowball tech workers too much if you want to have a working solution.