Sabah Keenyad

Sabah Keenyad (Veed): YC rejections to Sequoia

Veed founder Sabah Keenyad joins after the hosts dropped caps at his studio, opening with his viral tweet framing the decade since leaving college as an overnight success. He tells the bootstrapping story — rejected by YC four or five times, his co-founder working a job and paying half his salary to keep Veed alive, building to roughly $6M ARR before Sequoia invested — and describes today's scale of about 10M monthly users, split roughly half AI-generated and half edited video. He also covers hiring 30-year Apple veteran Pete Steiner as CTO to provide long-term direction against 'feature soup,' and the never-satisfied founder mindset, before the hosts discuss bootstrapping versus VC-backed growth.

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