#2286 Pepper: AI + people = > $10 million
Startup Stories - Mixergy
Andrew Warner
4.5 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Anirudh Singla is the founder and CEO of Pepper, a global content marketing platform that blends AI and human creativity to produce content at scale. What began as his side hustle on Upwork has grown into a company serving Fortune 500s —recently crossing $10M in annual recurring revenue. Pepper now operates across writing, design, video, and localization, helping brands drive measurable growth through AI-powered content systems.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Freedom Fighters. I've got a story about a guy who's creating a content business that's exciting. Check it out. |
| 0:05.4 | I read about a guy who uses AI and people to create over three quarters of a million pieces of content. |
| 0:11.4 | So I asked him to do an interview about how he does it. Let's watch. |
| 0:15.4 | Annie Root Singla is the founder of Pepper, which uses AI and humans to create content for enterprise clients. |
| 0:27.6 | Anirud Singhla, what's your revenue right now, Pepper? |
| 0:32.6 | So we just watched 10 million in ARR, and we're now in the 10 to 25 to 50 journey so yeah being uh it took us some |
| 0:41.9 | time to get us here but uh yeah very excited to finally cross this when you were working on upwork |
| 0:48.1 | as a writer how much money were you making a year then you You know, it's funny. |
| 0:54.8 | So just for reference, I was trying to figure out a way to finance my education. |
| 0:59.2 | And the goal was to earn $2,500 in two months. |
| 1:03.8 | And I've never earned a single penny in my life. |
| 1:08.9 | And I slogged about 17, 18 hours on Upwork Fiverr, all these check and all these other tutoring |
| 1:15.6 | platforms and made that happen. |
| 1:19.6 | And you know, that actually gave me this one very unique inside that, you know, |
| 1:23.4 | hey, I put in the hustle and the slog to get this done. |
| 1:26.3 | But there's a real need out there where there's like, |
| 1:29.9 | like I discovered these Facebook groups, |
| 1:31.8 | which are like hundreds and thousands of writers at that time. |
| 1:35.9 | And I figured someone needs to aggregate this market. |
| 1:38.7 | This is huge value. |
| 1:39.6 | And if you just recently saw Mercer, |
| 1:42.2 | which went crazily to, I don't know, 250, there is 250, 300 million |
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