
Nikhil Aitharaju
Co-Founder at Topic
Nikhil Aitharaju is the Co-Founder at Topic. Topic makes it easier for writers to create comprehensive content. Our AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work.
At Topic we have a team of 2 with over 150 customers while having over $250,000 in projected revenue. Topic is great for those writers looking to get actionable suggestions to drive higher traffic and get real results.
Nikhil’s audience on social media is greater than 2,000 and he is happy to share your episode with his fans!
- Marketing & Advertising
- SEO
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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Let's talk about
- How to find your first hundred users - SEO, Content Marketing.
- How to bootstrap a startup to millions in revenue.
- How to approach buyers when you are deciding to sell the company.
- Sales tips for founders with a technical background.
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Nikhil Aitharaju is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS business in college using SEO and content marketing. After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on a new product to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.

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Nikhil Aitharaju
Co-Founder at Topic
- Marketing & Advertising
- SEO
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Nikhil Aitharaju is the Co-Founder at Topic. Topic makes it easier for writers to create comprehensive content. Their AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work. Topic is great for those writers looking to get actionable suggestions to drive higher traffic and get real results.
Topic is a team of 2 with over 150 customers and over $250,000 in projected revenue.
Nikhil’s audience on social media is greater than 2,000 and he is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
- How to find your first hundred users - SEO, Content Marketing.
- How to bootstrap a startup to millions in revenue.
- How to approach buyers when you are deciding to sell the company.
- Sales tips for founders with a technical background.
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Nikhil Aitharaju is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS business in college using SEO and content marketing. After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on a new product to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Nikhil Aitharaju
Co-Founder at Topic
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Marketing & Advertising
- SEO
Nikhil Aitharaju is the Co-Founder at Topic. Topic makes it easier for writers to create comprehensive content. Their AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work. Topic is great for those writers looking to get actionable suggestions to drive higher traffic and get real results.
Topic is a team of 2 with over 150 customers and over $250,000 in projected revenue.
Nikhil’s audience on social media is greater than 2,000 and he is happy to share your episode with his fans!
read more
Let's talk about
- How to find your first hundred users - SEO, Content Marketing.
- How to bootstrap a startup to millions in revenue.
- How to approach buyers when you are deciding to sell the company.
- Sales tips for founders with a technical background.
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Nikhil Aitharaju is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS business in college using SEO and content marketing. After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on a new product to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
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Many big companies started as side projects of employees while they were at other companies. Github was a side project of Tom Preston Werner while he was working at powerset. The list goes on. But not all companies let their employees pursue their own side projects and safely retain full ownership of them.
Timeline
Feb 2019 – Present
Topic
Co-Founder
In order to rank high in search you need to establish your domain as an authority. This involves writing lots of comprehensive expert-level content. Unfortunately, this can be incredibly time consuming.
Topic makes it easier for writers to create comprehensive content. Their AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work. Topic’s system gives actionable suggestions to enable writers to create content that drives results.
Jun 2012 - Aug 2018
TINT
Co-Founder/CTO
TINT started as a business school project in the basement of a USC library. After raising an initial $350k seed round from StartEngine and Idealab, Nikhil grew the business to 40 full-time employees, 5M in annual recurring revenue, and 1000+ customers in 172 countries. In 2018 he successfully exited the company after selling to Filestack.
May 2011 - Aug 2011
NetApp
Software Developer Intern
Nikhil developed secure architecture for distributing Android applications within enterprises. He also developed and ported some of the existing Intranet applications on the web to the Mobile platform. He worked on both iOS & Android platform.
Dec 2010 - May 2011
Keck School Of Medicine, USC
Web Developer
Ask me
How do you win at search in 2020? |
How do you take your SEO content to the next level with AI? |
How will AI change content marketing over the next 5 years? |
How do you bootstrap a successful SaaS business in a crowded market? |
How can technical founders level up their marketing skillset? |
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