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Sahil Arora

Cryptocurrency Promoter and Entrepreneur · 1 appearance on the record.

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After launching Indian in-cab digital tablet advertising startup Tabverts as a teenager, Arora later relocated to Dubai and founded crypto ventures including ZelaaPay. In 2024, he gained widespread notoriety for promoting controversial celebrity-backed memecoins tied to figures such as Caitlyn Jenner and Jason Derulo.

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11 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 10 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 Sahil argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
TabWords installs tablets in Indian Uber cabs broadcasting Netflix and ads.
“What we do in TabWords is we put tablets behind headrests of Uber cabs across across India for now, and we broadcast ads, and we broadcast content in these tablets from Netflix.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 1:48 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Arora claims TabWords scaled to 10,000 cabs funded purely on revenue.
“So that's how we grow from 500 cabs to 10,000 cabs on pure revenue.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 15:13 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Contradicted
TabWords installs tablets in Indian Uber cabs broadcasting Netflix and ads.
“What we do in TabWords is we put tablets behind headrests of Uber cabs across across India for now, and we broadcast ads, and we broadcast content in these tablets from Netflix.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 1:48 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TabWords has deployed advertising tablets in 10,000 Indian cabs.
“I've got around 10,000 cabs.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 6:43 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
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Arora dropped out of high school to pursue entrepreneurship full-time.
“I dropped out of high school and I said screw it.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 11:57 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
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Arora claims he only sleeps one to two hours a day.
“I'm always up, so I get around one or two hours sleep every day.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 18:34 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
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Arora sold an iris-scanning tech company at age 17.
“We created an iris scanning solution, which we sold off to another company when I turned 17.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 1:43 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
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Arora recruited three to four developers unpaid for the initial product.
“And I got almost three, four of them on board for the idea without paying them a penny. And after that, I started the product with them.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 3:40 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Disclosure
Arora spent $100k of personal capital to fund his first 1,000 tablets.
“So I spent around a 100,000 dollars on the initial stages of the business, wherein we got our presents in around thousand caps.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 7:06 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Disclosure
TabWords raised a $500,000 VC round to fund hardware deployment.
“After that, we raised an investment from a venture capitalist. That was a 500,000. That was a 500,000 dollars, and then we funded the remaining 10,000 caps through that.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 7:12 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Disclosure
Snapdeal signed a six-month, 10 lakh rupee in-taxi ad deal.
“They have taken a fixed slot for six months, wherein we are, wherein they have a one minute video at played on every ride on every, so basically they have a presence in every ride. So we have taken, so we have finalized the deal in, in a 10 lakh rupee value fo…”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 8:18 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TabWords generated $70,000 in monthly revenue in March 2017.
“I did a revenue of 70,000 dollars this month.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 11:08 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TabWords pays a 15% revenue share directly to cab aggregators.
“So we share around 15% of our revenues with the aggregator directly.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 13:23 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TabWords generated approximately $550,000 in total revenue in 2016.
“So close to around five 50,000 dollars.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 13:38 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TabWords pays approximately $100 per in-cab hardware tablet unit.
“It's costing me around hundred dollars.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 15:23 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora
Disclosure
TabWords charges 1,500 INR per second for in-taxi video ads.
“So basically my normal cost right now is 1500 rupees per second to broadcast or second video, right? 1500 INR.”
Sahil Arora Mar 29, 2017 ▶ 8:37 EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with CEO Sahil Arora

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Appearances (1)

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EP 613: 16 Year Old Doing $70k MRR Helping You Put Your Ads Inside of Taxis' in India with Mar 29, 2017 10m
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