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Shaan Arora

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Shaan Arora

@iamshaanarora

Bootstrapped to $60M Exit | Co-Founder of @aliapopups

NYC

Joined May 2023

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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Mar 4
This feels surreal to say. Alia has officially been acquired by Dotdigital. There were a lot of nights I pictured writing this post. [more emotional parts below, but I need to first talk to our customers and partners before anything else] NOTHING will change for our partners
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Sep 15, 2025
We've officially bootstrapped to $5M ARR. I feel like I'm dreaming.
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Aug 4, 2025
Achieved $4M ARR [bootstrapped] today. Smiling ear to ear right now.
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Aug 29, 2025
We scaled to $4.5M ARR ourselves. We rejected 50 VC term sheets. On Sept. 2nd, we release our biggest feature yet.
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Sep 18, 2025
Moved into a 3,000 sq ft office in Chelsea today! Our first office (10 months ago) was just 96 sq ft
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Oct 28, 2025
Today, we've bootstrapped to $6M ARR. A year ago, we DID NOT get into YC. Here's our yc vid👇🏽
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Jun 19, 2025
Today, we've crossed $3M ARR { bootstrapped } $1M -> $3M in 5 months Not bad for a few random 24yr old kids
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Sep 2, 2025
Over the last 3 months, we’ve been secretly testing this with 9-figure brands like Graza, ILIA, and Vessi. Today, it goes live for everyone.
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Jan 23, 2025
Well friends, we've reached $1M in revenue. In 12 months. Being 23 years old 🙏🏽 I've been waiting months to make this post and to be able to shout it from the rooftops. We've done it. We hit the magical $83,333 monthly revenue number. A year ago today, we had $1K monthly
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Nov 10, 2025
We scaled to $6.5M through word of mouth. We're now hiring a Head of Marketing👇🏽 Hot Ones, Graza, Hostage Tape, Nike Strength, and Comfrt are a few of the 2500+ brands working with us. In the past 14 months, we went from less than $100K ARR to $6.5M ARR without raising a
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Jul 9, 2025
We're at $3.5M ARR with popups. That's all we do. Popups = Alia. Alia = popups.
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Oct 30, 2025
Scratch-off popups are CRUSHING for brands [available in beta inside Alia]
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Oct 1, 2025
A year ago, our team had 3 people Today, we have these 17 beautiful faces on the Alia team I'm 24 yrs old This is how it feels to have a team of this size at my age👇🏽 The decisions my cofounders and I make now affect whether someone can pay rent next month. And that's a
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Shaan Arora
@iamshaanarora
Sep 12, 2025
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