
Ryo Chiba
Co-founder at Topic
Ryo Chiba is the co-founder of 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.
Topic has a projected revenue of $250,000 and has 150 customers with a team size of 2. They are perfect for SEO and content marketing.
- SEO
- Content Marketing
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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- The challenges of bootstrapping a business from zero to 40 employees!
- SEO and content marketing.
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Ryo Chiba is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS company in college using SEO and content marketing called TINT. Bootstrapped it with his 2 cofounders to 40 full-time employees, 5M in annual recurring revenue, and 1000+ customers in 172 countries.
After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on Topic to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
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. We plan on releasing a new product soon - Topic Copilot - a copywriting assistant that learns your writing style and writes actual paragraphs for you.

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Ryo Chiba
Co-founder at Topic
- SEO
- Content Marketing
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Ryo Chiba is the co-founder of 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.
Topic has a projected revenue of $250,000 and has 150 customers with a team size of 2. They are perfect for SEO and content marketing.
read more
Let's talk about
- The challenges of bootstrapping a business from zero to 40 employees!
- SEO and content marketing.
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Ryo Chiba is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS company in college using SEO and content marketing called TINT. Bootstrapped it with his 2 cofounders to 40 full-time employees, 5M in annual recurring revenue, and 1000+ customers in 172 countries.
After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on Topic to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
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. We plan on releasing a new product soon - Topic Copilot - a copywriting assistant that learns your writing style and writes actual paragraphs for you.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Ryo Chiba
Co-founder at Topic
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- SEO
- Content Marketing
Ryo Chiba is the co-founder of 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.
Topic has a projected revenue of $250,000 and has 150 customers with a team size of 2. They are perfect for SEO and content marketing.
read more
Let's talk about
- The challenges of bootstrapping a business from zero to 40 employees!
- SEO and content marketing.
--
Ryo Chiba is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS company in college using SEO and content marketing called TINT. Bootstrapped it with his 2 cofounders to 40 full-time employees, 5M in annual recurring revenue, and 1000+ customers in 172 countries.
After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on Topic to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.
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. We plan on releasing a new product soon - Topic Copilot - a copywriting assistant that learns your writing style and writes actual paragraphs for you.
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Timeline
Feb 2019 – Present
Topic
Co-Founder
Ryo is the Co-Founder of Topic which helps content teams and writers create comprehensive content that ranks on search. Topic makes it easier for writers to create comprehensive content.
Topic’s AI analyzes the top results in Google, extracts key topics to cover, and provides an interactive editor to allow writers to grade their work. Their system gives actionable suggestions to enable writers to create content that drives results.
Nov 2011 - Jan 2019
TINT
Co-Founder
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, Ryo 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 - Sep 2011
Yahoo!
Technical Intern
Ryo worked in the Yahoo Streaming Video Player team, a division of Yahoo’s Cloud Platform Group. Ryo contributed to the player delivery backend, using node.js and cloud platforms, he created configuration storage/retrieval API and related front-end tool used to modify player instances all while creating test tools for quality engineering team to test player in different configurations.
May 2010 - May 2011
Daily BR!NK
Co-Founder
Daily BR!INK launched an innovative online publication in 2 months with a small team while partnering with Nissan to develop a unique marketing campaign for Innovation Week 2012
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