Nas Daily: 1-Minute Videos to a $27M Startup

Key Takeaways:

Nuseir Yassin left a $100K+ Venmo engineering job in 2016 to make 1-minute daily videos
He completed 1,000 consecutive daily videos, growing from 0 to 10M Facebook followers
He built Nas Academy (creator education), Nas.io (AI business platform), and 1000 Media (marketing agency)
Nas.io now has 3.5 million members and just raised $27M from Khosla Ventures in April 2026

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Who Is Nuseir Yassin?

Nuseir Yassin is a Palestinian-Israeli creator, Harvard economics graduate, and former software engineer at Venmo. He's known as Nas Daily, the guy who made one-minute videos every single day for 1,000 days straight. Today he runs a tech company with 3.5 million members across 150 countries. He grew up in Arraba, a small town in northern Israel. His parents, a teacher and a psychologist, pushed education hard. He got into Harvard at 19, graduated with an economics degree and a computer science minor, then moved to New York to write code at Venmo for PayPal. By most definitions, he'd made it. Six-figure salary. Top-tier resume. Comfortable life. But as he put it in a 2018 interview with Yahoo Finance: "My job was overpaid. It wasn't satisfying enough." So he saved $60,000 over 18 months. And quit.

From Harvard to Facebook to 70M Followers

In 2016, Yassin bought a camera and started posting one-minute videos to Facebook. One every day. No days off. The logic was simple: "We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute." The first 268 videos went mostly unnoticed. Then video 270, about electricity generation in the Philippines, went viral. By video 500, monthly views jumped from 100,000 to 1 million. On January 5, 2019, he posted video number 1,000 to an audience of 10 million Facebook followers. That daily discipline forced something most creators never experience: compounding. Each video was a tiny investment that built on the last. By the end, Nas Daily had become one of the biggest creator brands in the world, now over 70 million followers across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. But here's what matters: the videos were never the business. They were the foundation for one.

How Did a Creator Build a Tech Company?

Most creators with 70 million followers would ride brand deals until the money dried up. Yassin did the opposite. In 2020, he launched Nas Academy, an education platform where creators could learn video production and storytelling. It raised $12M in 2021, eventually pulling in $23M total in venture funding. He built Nas Studios to handle brand partnerships and productions. He hired nearly 200 employees across Dubai, Singapore, India, and the Philippines. The media business was generating $400K to $500K per month, according to ProHustle's analysis. But Yassin saw a bigger opportunity. Like Ali Abdaal building his own AI productivity app or Thomas Frank turning Notion templates into a $2M business, Yassin bet that the real money wasn't in content. It was in product.

What Is Nas.io?

What is Nas.io? Nas.io is an AI-powered platform that takes someone from business idea to paying customers, handling everything from storefronts to marketing to payments. Yassin launched Nas.io in 2023. The pitch: no technical skills, no existing audience, no business experience required. The platform handles digital products, storefronts, community tools, memberships, automated marketing, ad creation, and global payments with 0% transaction fees. One tool replaces the entire tech stack a solopreneur needs. The numbers:

Metric	Number
Members	3.5 million
Countries	150+
Paying business owners	20,000+
Monthly price	$29
Revenue growth (2025)	5x
Top user revenue (first 12 months)	$1M to $2M

More than 90% of those 20,000 paying business owners have zero employees. They pay $29/month for a platform that replaces a tool stack costing $100+ per month.

The $27M Bet from Khosla Ventures

On April 8, 2026, Nas announced a $27M Series A round led by Vinod Khosla's firm, Khosla Ventures. Lightspeed Venture Partners and 500 Startups also participated. This isn't charity. Khosla Ventures backed Nas.io because the solopreneur economy is exploding and the platform sits at the center of it. It proved it could convert millions of community members into thousands of paying business owners who stick around. Yassin's own trajectory is the proof of concept. He went from creator to operator to platform builder. Now he's building the infrastructure so others can skip the decade it took him. As he told BusinessToday: "Most YouTubers are secretly broke." His solution: stop depending on platforms that don't pay you and build something you own.

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What Can Creators Learn from Nas Daily?

1. Distribution comes before monetization. Yassin made 1,000 free videos before charging anyone a dime. He built the audience first, then the product. That order matters. 2. Your content isn't the product. The videos built the brand. The businesses built the wealth. If you're still treating content as your revenue source instead of your marketing channel, you're leaving money on the table. 3. Recurring beats one-time. Brand deals reset to zero every month. A platform with 20,000 subscribers paying $29/month doesn't. That's $580K in monthly recurring revenue from just the subscription layer. 4. Software compounds, content doesn't. A video gets views for a week. A platform gets subscribers for years. Products scale in ways creators can't.

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Nas Daily by the Numbers

Milestone	Data
Harvard graduation	2014
Venmo salary	$100K+
Savings before quitting	$60,000
Daily video challenge	1,000 days (2016 to 2019)
Followers at video 1,000	10M
Total followers (2026)	70M+
Nas Academy funding	$23M total
Nas.io members	3.5M
Series A funding	$27M (April 2026)
Monthly revenue (Nas Group)	$400K to $500K

Yassin started with a camera and $60,000 in savings. A decade later, he runs a tech company backed by one of Silicon Valley's most selective venture firms. You don't need 70 million followers to start building. You need expertise, an audience that trusts you, and a product worth paying for. Ready to turn your audience into a business? Built by Foundry builds custom apps for creators. Three weeks to launch, we handle the tech forever.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How did Nas Daily get started?

Nuseir Yassin quit his software engineering job at Venmo in 2016 and committed to making one-minute Facebook videos every day for 1,000 days. The challenge grew his audience from zero to 10 million followers.

How much money does Nas Daily make?

The Nas Group generates $400,000 to $500,000 per month across Nas Studios, Nas Academy, and Nas.io. The Nas.io platform alone has 20,000 paying business owners at $29/month.

What is Nas.io?

Nas.io is an AI-powered platform that helps solopreneurs build online businesses. It handles products, storefronts, communities, marketing, ads, and payments. The platform has 3.5 million members and raised $27M from Khosla Ventures in April 2026.

Does Nas Daily still make videos?

Yes. Yassin still creates content across YouTube (14M subscribers), Facebook (20M followers), Instagram (5M followers), and TikTok. But content is now the marketing channel for his businesses, not the business itself.