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Sabba Keynejad
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Co-founder & CEO of VEED. Sharing stories on the Napkin Math podcast napkinmath.fm
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Oct 20, 2025
    2015: Left the first job right after college. 2016: Failed as a YouTuber. 2016: Failed as a freelancer. 2018: Launched the MVP of VEED. 2018: Went broke. Sold all crypto. 2019: Applied to YC. Rejected. 2019: Applied to YC. Rejected. Again. 2019: Thrown out of office space. 2019:
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    Sep 15, 2025
    Introducing VEED Fabric 1.0 The world’s first-ever AI talking video model. – 1-minute-long videos – 60x cheaper – 7x faster 🚨 Giving away unlimited FREE credits for the next 24 hours. (until they run out). Want access? • Retweet • Leave a comment
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    Jun 24, 2020
    12 Months ago we had no revenue, where rejected from @ycombinator and had 3 months runway in the bank. We just crossed the magic $83,333 MRR - $1M ARR threshold, 100% bootstrapped. I am SO excited for what's next and am so fortunate to be working with such an amazing team 🎉
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Nov 1, 2025
    We had a 15% lift in trial conversion. What one do you think did it. Left or right
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Apr 16, 2025
    We built Cursor for video editing (and its live)
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Jan 24, 2023
    The last three years....
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Jan 13, 2022
    🎉 I'm giving away this brand new M1 MacBook Pro (M1) 🔄To enter, just Retweet this tweet. 👩‍💻We are growing our dev team at @veedstudio and looking for talented developers to join the ride. 🔗100% Remote, DM's Opens, apply link in bio. 🙏Thanks!
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Feb 3, 2022
    We just raised $35,000,000 from Sequoia! But as a profitable boostrapped company doing +$6M ARR, you might ask yourself why? Let's get into it 👇
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Jun 25, 2021
    Today, VEED just hit.... $5M ARR 🤯 100% bootstrapped 🎉 It was not always sunshine and rainbows ☀️🌈 Here is the story of how we got there, let me take you back to June 2018 👇
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Sep 25, 2025
    VEED Fabric 1.0 💥 The world’s first-ever AI talking video model. Now, available on API on @fal. – 60x cheaper – 7x faster 🚨 Giving away up to $2000 in credits to 5 lucky users. Want access? • Retweet • Leave a comment Winners announced via DMs.
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Feb 4, 2022
    How it started. How it's going.
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Apr 3, 2024
    Today is @ycombinator demo day. A day we tried hard to be part of.  But failed. Let me explain... In 2019, we made it to the YC final interview stage and got rejected (because we didn't have any paying customers yet). So we pulled some all-nighters, added a paid plan, got
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Nov 3, 2025
    Alright, so this blew up. Correct answer: Left one. The majority of folks got it wrong It also got us: - 3% higher conversion to paid - 17% higher ARPU - 33% higher MRR
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Nov 1, 2025
    We had a 15% lift in trial conversion. What one do you think did it. Left or right
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    Sabba Keynejad
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    Nov 4, 2024
    In 2020 we where rejected from YC 20 months later we bootstrapped to $6M ARR In 2022 we raised 35M from Sequoia This year we blew passed $40M ARR in ARR Im doing a talk at @WebSummit on the journey building @veedstudio What topics should I cover?
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