Co-founder & CEO of VEED. Sharing stories on the Napkin Math podcast napkinmath.fm
Joined April 2012
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20 Oct 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: Found first paying customer.
2021: Bootstrapped to $5M ARR.
2022: Raised money from Sequoia Capital.
2025: 10M monthly users.
And we’re still just getting started.
Still so much more to learn.
As they say...
You overestimate what you can do in a day and underestimate what you can do in a year.
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Jun 13
I can’t stand EU regulators 😂
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 13
Looking for a good pod for the weekend?
Give napkin math a go!
Jun 11
Listening to users almost killed my company.
So this year...
We made the hard call to reinvent everything.
Here's how it saved us & sent our growth through the roof👇
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Jun 11
Listening to users almost killed my company.
So this year...
We made the hard call to reinvent everything.
Here's how it saved us & sent our growth through the roof👇
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Jun 11
Some amazing people & companies we talked about 👇
At 03:00 - How @cursor_ai, @Lovable and @ElevenLabs are absolutely killing it in AI
At 04:15 - How @netflix ignored user requests and built the future of streaming
At 11:05 - Why @Google, @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI show that “the model is the product”
At 16:10 - Why @NotebookLM is one of the best examples of AI leverage
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Jun 10
VEED MCP is now live.
Use VEED inside your favourite AI tools.
We built a guide so anyone can get started.
Want it?
Comment and I’ll send it over.
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Jun 8
Should I spend $15,000…
Just to try sell @nikitabier on our subtitles api?
Feeling kinda YOLO right now
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Jun 8
Just going to leave this here….
May 11
Pro-tip to video creators:
Add captions to your videos. Most people scroll Timeline with volume off. It will increase engagement on your content by 5x.
We’ll be adding this natively to our video uploader soon.
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Jun 8
7 years ago, Tim and I slept in this bunk bed at a YC Hacker House in Mountain View, California.
We worked 14 hours a day.
Tried everything to get into YC.
You know what happened?
We got rejected. TWICE!
But we didn't quit. Kept trying.
Today, we're shipping and working on technology we could've never imagined...
Back then, we didn't have paying users.
Just a vision that great video creation should be accessible to everyone.
Most things we tried failed.
And then, VEED turned into an AI content creation platform used by 10M people with one video exported every second.
Lately we've been on a path of reinvention.
Last year, we shipped our own SOTA talking video model, VEED Fabric, and are seeing massive PMF with our API business - more on that soon!
But sometimes it’s worth looking back, just to realise how far you’ve come.
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Jun 5
Hey @nikitabier
The video reacts look 10 times better with great subtitles!
You can use VEED's subtitle API for this.
Happy to chat.
Jun 5
Saw this tweet and I had to comment
Don’t let being “out of network” discourage you
Just focus on building a great product
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Jun 5
Saw this tweet and I had to comment
Don’t let being “out of network” discourage you
Just focus on building a great product
Jun 3
Picture a 2026 founder who
- didn’t work at a faang
- didn’t go to an Ivy League
- doesn’t know any investors
- didn’t reach a substantial revenue milestone on past business
Be honest.
Is it possible for them to fundraise?
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Jun 3
VEED 🤝 Melius
Melius is now powered by VEED’s Subtitle API 🔥
Jun 3
92% of people watch videos with the sound off.
But you're not fazed. Because dynamic subtitles are now available in Melius. Auto- transcription, custom styling, export – with one prompt to our agent or yours.
Powered by @veedstudio.
Try it now on melius.com
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May 28
Vibe coding is a ~$10 billion gold rush.
But, almost no one is selling picks & shovels...
We breakdown 3 ways you can make millions from this wave.
Full episode 👉 bit.ly/nm_podcast
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Some amazing people & companies we talked about 👇
At 00:38 - Origins of term "vibe coding" by @karpathy
At 01:46 - @Replit's insane $2.8M to $150M ARR milseton
At 04:42 - How @retool scaled to $140M ARR
At 16:33 - Why people stick with @TallyForms
At 26:45 - @WIRED report on vibe-coded apps leaking data
At 41:17 - @every's biggest moneymaker isn't the newsletter
At 45:04 - @paulg 's legendary advice: "live in the future, build what's missing"
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May 28
I’m speaking at Applied AI Conf today in Berlin.
MainStage at 16:10
See you there!!!
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Sabba Keynejad retweeted
May 27
VEED Subtitles are in Figma Weave. Use it wisely
Try it yourself: figma.bot/4dMCKjM
@veedstudio
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May 26
Can a 10-person bootstrapped team compete with VC-backed giants?
@MarieMartens did.
Scaled @TallyForms to $5M ARR.
In this episode, she covers:
– Her playbook to win AI search
– How she got first 1000 users
– Her distribution strategy
Watch here→ shorturl.at/GQ4tT
May 22
This is @MarieMartens
She built a $5M ARR company
By giving her product away for free...
– Did it 100% bootstrapped
– Turned AI search into a growth channel
– Built a big brand from a free product
– Competed against VC-backed giants
Full ep → shorturl.at/GQ4tT
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