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Sabba Keynejad

Co-Founder and CEO, VEED · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutive@sab8a ↗veed.io ↗

Keynejad co-founded VEED in 2018 alongside Timur Mamedov, growing the browser-based video editing platform from a bootstrapped startup into a company backed by Sequoia Capital. Under his leadership as CEO, VEED scaled to more than 10 million monthly active users.

14statements → 6claims → 2claims resolved → 3.71/5average certainty → 1.57/5average debate potential → 1said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 4 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Sabba argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Keynejad: Veed's YouTube tutorials capture Google's position zero featured snippets
“We're getting the number zero spot on Google with it.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 20:11 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Keynejad: Veed can reach $10M ARR efficiently within two years
“I see a very comfortable, like I kind of see a decent path for the next couple of years to get to the ten million ARR and I think there's a very good possibility we're going to get there and we're going to get there relatively efficiently.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 13:22 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
0% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Sabba Keynejad on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Sabba Keynejad said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Keynejad: Co-founders must split equity 50-50 to stay fully incentivized
“That's not the right way to do it. If you're doing it that way, then you shouldn't be your co-founder. I mean, like, come on. So you split fifty-fifty. I mean, like, you're going to be doing this for years, hopefully. You're going to make a really big company.…”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 3:17 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Opinion
Keynejad: Venture capital would not accelerate Veed's current growth rate
“Capital's not going to make us grow any faster right now. I can't see that happening.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 13:49 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Keynejad: Veed can reach $10M ARR efficiently within two years
“I see a very comfortable, like I kind of see a decent path for the next couple of years to get to the ten million ARR and I think there's a very good possibility we're going to get there and we're going to get there relatively efficiently.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 13:22 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Keynejad: Veed adds 60 to 80 new paying customers daily
“We did we did 80 yesterday, which is good. Anywhere between like 60 to 80 today, something like that.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 11:35 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keynejad: Veed has high monthly customer churn of roughly 13%
“Churn is about 13%, so, you know, much higher than a normal SaaS company, should we say.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 17:02 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keynejad: Veed retains about 30% of users after one year
“No, we retain about 30%. So the people that first joined a year ago, we got about 30% of that first cohort still on.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 18:12 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keynejad: Veed is generating about $1.5M in ARR
“We did a one million ARR. Yeah we're about one and a half now.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 2:24 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Keynejad: Veed Is Putting Away Approximately 30% of Revenue
“Three, four months ago, our runway was zero and we'd spend everything we would on, you know, growth and putting it back into the company. Now we're probably putting away about 30%.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 5:28 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Veed founders paid themselves $2,000 monthly until hitting $1M ARR
“We were paying ourselves about 2000 dollars a month until, I mean, even to the million, I think when we hit a million ARR, we paid ourselves more than 2000 dollars a month.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 5:49 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Keynejad: Veed has just under 5,500 paying customers
“5000, just under 5500.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 9:31 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Keynejad: Veed receives about 10,000 website visitors daily
“I mean, I know how many people, you know, we've got about 10,000 people hit the site every day.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 10:14 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Keynejad: Veed has raised zero outside capital
“No, we haven't raised any money.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 12:51 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Disclosure
Keynejad: Veed has done zero paid marketing for growth
“No, we haven't done any paid.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 19:01 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
Assertion Supported
Keynejad: Veed's YouTube tutorials capture Google's position zero featured snippets
“We're getting the number zero spot on Google with it.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 20:11 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles

The other half of the tape: Sabba Keynejad's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 1 time in 1 episode on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles Sep 2, 2020 9m
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