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Yahya Mokhtarzada

Co-Founder and CRO, Rocket Money · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutiveinvestor@YahyaMokh ↗LinkedIn ↗rocketmoney.com ↗

He co-founded Truebill (rebranded as Rocket Money), a personal finance and subscription-tracking platform acquired by Rocket Companies in late 2021 for $1.275 billion. Prior to Truebill, he served as VP of Business Development at ad-tech company Nanigans and is an active angel investor and startup mentor.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 insight · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 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 Yahya 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
Truebill raised $1.75 million in total seed capital
“So we've actually raised about 1.75 million in total capital. We closed that in the last month actually.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 4:48 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay

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

Insight
Mokhtarzada: Charging users to save them money creates a fundamental conflict
“And I think there's just, you're fundamentally at odds. If you're trying to charge the user money to save the money at the same time.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 4:20 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Disclosure
Truebill is not selling user spending data to investors
“And that's just a distraction that, you know, we're well capitalized at the moment, so we're not not pursuing.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 8:53 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Disclosure
Mokhtarzada: Truebill stays free for consumers, monetizing via recommendations
“So we keep true will completely free for users. And that opens up a couple of new channels for us in the form of intelligent recommendations.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 2:01 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Disclosure
Truebill combed standard affiliate networks before pursuing direct partnership deals
“So what we did firstly was we just sort of signed on to Commission Junction and a few other affiliate programs and combed through to see, you know, what would be interesting or more actually what would be contextually relevant for users. And then we just sort …”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 3:00 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Truebill grew monthly revenue from $500 to $4,000 in month two
“So the first month that we turned on revenue, we did just 500 dollars. The second month that went up to about 4000 dollars.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 3:45 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mokhtarzada predicts Truebill will hit $50,000 monthly revenue within 12 months
“So I think that around 12 months we should be making 50,000 dollars a month.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 4:04 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Assertion Supported
Truebill raised $1.75 million in total seed capital
“So we've actually raised about 1.75 million in total capital. We closed that in the last month actually.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 4:48 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mokhtarzada admits Truebill lacks user volume to meaningfully move partner metrics
“Realistically for none of the companies that we're working with right now, do we have enough volume to move the needle for them to be meaningful?”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 7:06 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Truebill signs up 10k to 15k users per month
“I think last month we signed up about 10 or 15,000 users.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 9:07 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Truebill reports 50,000 lifetime signups since January 2016 launch
“It's around 50,000.”
Yahya Mokhtarzada Aug 16, 2016 ▶ 9:17 EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 388: TrueBill Saves You $ On All Those Monthly Subscriptions You Pay Aug 16, 2016 6m
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