Stephen Titus
- Co-Founder and CEO at Faved
GetLatka interview
How Faved Passed $50M in Lifetime GMV Connecting Brands to Creators (Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Stephen Titus)
Stephen Titus (Co-Founder and CEO of Faved) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 4, 2026.
Faved figures from the interview
- Projected Net Revenue (2026)
- $1.2M to $2M
- Projected Gross Bookings (2026)
- $8M to $9M
- Lifetime GMV
- $50M+
- Active Brands (monthly)
- About 30
- Creators on Platform
- 30,000+
“We will process somewhere around eight to nine million of gross bookings on the platform this year. And your follow-up question is probably going to be: what's our take rate? Because we're a marketplace. We roughly take about 15 to 20%, which will put us somewhere in the 1.2 to 2 mil net revenue range.”
“We've processed over fifty million dollars worth of orders, over twenty thousand across over twenty thousand orders.”
“Last month we've probably gone closer to 30 brands having spent at least a dollar. And that would have gone to close to a thousand creators. And lifetime we've done and and the composition of 30 brands every month keeps changing because brands can be seasonal in their campaigns. We've done over 300 brands lifetime and over 30,000 creators on the platform.”
Bio
Stephen Titus is the co-founder and CEO of Faved, a creator sponsorship marketplace based in London. He studied engineering at university, where he met his co-founder and CTO (known as Tush), and the two launched a Kickstarter for a smartwatch called the Death Watch that raised approximately $20,000 and sold a few hundred units. After university, Titus completed internships in finance at Goldman Sachs and BlackRock before deciding to pursue entrepreneurship full-time with his co-founder. Titus went through multiple failed startups before co-founding Faved in 2022. His early Kickstarter experience introduced him to the power of Reddit micro-communities and online evangelists as distribution channels, which became the intellectual foundation for Faved's creator marketplace model. He turned 30 in 2025 and is based in London, traveling to the US at least once a month. Under Titus's leadership, Faved has grown entirely bootstrapped from $1 million GMV and $100,000 net revenue in 2022 to a projected $8 9 million GMV and $1.2 $2 million net revenue in 2026. The platform has processed over $50 million in lifetime GMV across more than 20,000 orders, hosts over 30,000 vetted creators, and has served more than 300 brands.