One person. One canvas. No investors.
I'm Raghav. I'm building Macro on my own.
For years I worked at the edges of performance marketing — running campaigns, leading teams, sitting in too many meetings about why a creative cycle that should take a week takes a month. And every team I ever joined had the same picture on a whiteboard: a campaign branching into platforms, into audiences, into creatives.
Then we'd close the whiteboard and open eleven tabs. Figma. Premiere. ChatGPT. Midjourney. The Meta UI. The Google UI. A folder of mp4s named FINAL_v3_REAL.mp4. Slack to send the screenshots in.
The whiteboard was always right. The tools weren't.
I'm keeping the whiteboard.
No round raised. No board. No deck. I'm working from wherever the wifi is good and answering to whoever's running ads on Macro right now. The product gets paid for by people using it; that's the only feedback loop I trust.
I'll grow the team when the work needs more hands — not before, and probably never as fast as a fund cycle would want. The tool will keep getting smaller, sharper, more opinionated. Never wider, never softer.
If you've ever drawn that picture on a whiteboard, you'll know what Macro is the second you open it.
Thanks for the time.