Niv: Spines has published 3,700 authors with 10x YoY growth
Yehuda Niv · Revolutionizing Publishing: How AI Empowers Authors and Scales Global Storytelling with Yehuda Niv · Sep 17, 2025 · at 1:31
Yehuda Niv, founder and CEO of AI-powered publishing platform Spines, describes the platform's traction and growth metrics.
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“And we've been able to already, when it's recorded, to publish 3700 American authors. And we are growing very, very fast for the past two years, more than 10 X year over year growth.”
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