Assertion Supported AI assessment confidence: 95% certainty 4/5 debate potential 1/5

Hays: Bootstrapped manufacturer SendCutSend scaled past $100M in annualized revenue

Jordi Hays · The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) · Mar 11, 2026 · at 1:01:08

Jordi Hays discusses rapid sheet metal and manufacturing startup SendCutSend with the My First Million hosts, highlighting profitable and bootstrapped hardware businesses.

0:00 / 0:14exact quote · 14.5s

▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark

“Send, cut, send is a bootstrap company. The founder Jim has been on our show. Scaled over a hundred million in annualized revenue you know, completely independently and have thousands and thousands of happy customers”

quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →

The claim, plainly

SendCutSend is a bootstrapped, independent company that has scaled to over $100 million in annualized revenue.

a quote alone can be ambiguous, so this restates it with the references and context of the conversation around it resolved. AI-written; the tape below the player is the source.

Assessment

At the time the claim was made on March 11, 2026, SendCutSend was an independent, bootstrapped business that had already surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue. Official company records show SendCutSend crossed the $100 million revenue milestone in October 2025. Subsequent reporting by The Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine in May 2026 confirmed that SendCutSend bootstrapped operations to approximately $200 million in revenue prior to raising its first institutional venture round ($110 million led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm) on May 19, 2026.

SendCutSend reached the $100 million revenue milestone in October 2025 while operating as a self-funded and bootstrapped company.
The Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine reported in May 2026 that the company bootstrapped up to roughly $200 million in revenue before accepting its first institutional venture round.
SendCutSend operated without institutional venture capital until May 19, 2026, when it announced a $110 million investment led by Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.

Checked against

[1] sendcutsend.com [2] stockanalysis.com [3] inc.com [4] thefabricator.com [5] torchmate.com [6] sendcutsend.com [7] youtube.com [8] kucoin.com

SendCutSend funding institutional venture capital SendCutSend annual revenue 2023 2024 2025 2026 SendCutSend 100 million revenue bootstrapped SendCutSend revenue Inc 5000

assessed as of 2026-09-02

This assessment is an AI reading of a public statement, made against the cited references with the confidence shown. It can be wrong. The quote, the tape and the references are all on this page; if something is off, use report an error below. full disclaimer →

Mentioned

Jim SendCutSend

⚑ Spot an error? Report it

More from Jordi Hays

Insight

Hays: Passing on Multi-Billion-Dollar Winners Is a Massive Career Mistake

“The biggest mistake that people make is not going with an obvious winner because It's already in the multiple billions, and it just looks like, okay, what, what's the potential upside from here? And that's just been wrong so many times in the last 10 years.”

Jordi Hays Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 4:14 The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)

Insight

Hays: Network Aesthetics Help Podcasts Bypass PR Gatekeepers to Book CEOs

“And we wanted the aesthetics of being, like, a cable network because we wanted to go and get these, like, public company CEOs on. If you're trying to get a public company CEO, some of them, the really founder mode ones, you just talk, DM with, text, and jump o…”

Jordi Hays Mar 11, 2026 ▶ 1:08:47 The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)

Hays: Bootstrapped manufacturer SendCutSend scaled past $100M in annualized revenue

More from Jordi Hays

Turn any episode into a week of clips.