From art school to $40M ARR—with no money, no network, no plan B: Sabba Keynejad on building VEED

As co-founder of VEED, Sabba Keynejad spent years building without funding, optimising for what users actually searched for, and scaling through obsessive customer focus—not pitch decks.

In this episode, we get into:

•⁠ ⁠Why getting rejected by YC twice in a weekend became fuel for growth

•⁠ ⁠How to build for what users search for (not what they say they want)

•⁠ ⁠What makes SEO and YouTube a powerful GTM engine—if you’re scrappy

•⁠ ⁠How loving your users more than your investors changes your roadmap

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