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Sabba Keynejad
@sab8a
Co-founder & CEO of VEED. Sharing stories on the Napkin Math podcast napkinmath.fm
London
Joined April 2012
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    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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    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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    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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    We had a 15% lift in trial conversion. What one do you think did it. Left or right
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    We built Cursor for video editing (and its live)
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    The last three years....
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    🎉 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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    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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    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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    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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    How it started. How it's going.
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    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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    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
    We had a 15% lift in trial conversion. What one do you think did it. Left or right
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    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?