Thank you! We did have a part time team on content/design/marketing and another full time team member on engineering (but we never quite figured out how to film everyone lol). Though I didn't write any code so you're right it was just two developers
@@ninobach7456Yup. Almost like being able to walk the talk and not just slapping AI / Web3 / Metaverse / Buzzword on stuff 😌. Awesome documentation and well earned ❤️ !
My jaw dropped at the part when you told the story of how your VC literally quit his fund to copy you guys. Kudos to you both you are absolute legends for powering through a founder's ultimate nightmare!
This is so inspiring it’s insane. Most of the time the media only shows the “overnight success” but they fail to show the struggles and failures along the way. Thank you for sharing this process with us. Wish you guys the best!
You two should start a RUclips channel. You guys have great energy and you’re both so positive. It would be a great way to find talent and bring attention to your next business
I am so glad you captured the startup building journey from start to finish. Super fascinating and insightful to see the behind the scenes successes and struggles! I just got some new motivation in life after watching this!
The consistent resilience and optimistic attitude you both have is incredible to watch and no doubt a huge reason why you both were successful. Congratulations and thanks so much for sharing this amazing story :)
Well done guys!! This shows how hard they worked even if they failed couple of times. Such a motivation as well, everything is possible if you push yourself a bit!
I'm glad to hear that being an iOS developer brings you so much joy and hope! Embrace your passion for development and continue to create amazing things.❤❤❤
From the bottom of my heart, congratulations. Your dedication, hard work, persistence and earnest attitude towards adapting to your environment and staying steadfast in all of your efforts to succeed is amazing. Your ability to adapt to the market demand at the beginning of the video was inspiring and I really enjoyed watching this! Thank you for filming and I hope you continue to do this! You just got a new sub! Also I'm a 4th year at Berkeley right now, go bears!
Currently in a seed round, specifically rejection face. Feels good to see others going through the same and eventually getting that VC Check. Thanks for the boost and congrats!
this was simply amazing to watch... Like you guys just literally served through problems to find a good idea. Seems so obvious but very difficult to be committed to. Well-done!
This is amazing! I truly enjoyed your documentation of the journey. This app was innovative, thought out, and extremely well timed with covid (very fortunate for that). I hope this video inspires more founders to document their journeys. Whether their startup succeeds or not.
Thank goodness you brought this up! Truly, investing has changed my perspective on how one can succeed in life; working multiple jobs isn't the optimal way to attain financial freedom and unfortunately, we discover this later in life. Currently earn as much as 10 grand weekly and this has improved my financial life. Great piece!
Best life changing advice is to pick a good financial mentor and let them guide you towards wealth. This really saves you from loss and time wasting. I am glad I know Olivia Sullivan.
That was such a great video! My friend an I are at the same stage right now, we raised our first round and we're running out of money and trying to make this work. This morning was bad for us, but after watching this I got more excited. Well done!
Absolutely love that you had the idea to document as you built. So cool seeing 2017 you talk about the company - it sometimes feels like your watching another person (maybe you technically are?? who knows). Excited to see what's next
this video has inspired me and this might actually be one of the most entertaining videos I have watched on youtube in a long time because I was so invested in this video
This is what makes America so great. The opportunity for young, hard working engineers to build products that people actually want, and the environment to bring them to life. These are the stories that need to be pushed out to the rest of the world so we can keep attracting the best and brightest.
For anyone wondering how much they sold Onyx for: Curefit has acquired 100% stake in Onyx in a pure share swap deal at a consideration Rs 91.84 crore or $12.7 million. Onyx's co-founders James Sha and Asaf Avidan Antonir got shares worth $5 million each and will have a stake of 0.65% each in the Bengaluru-based company. Feb 5, 2021 Curefit is now worth over 1.5 billion usd, meaning that 0.65 percent of it is worth roughly 1 million usd. Congrats guys!!!!
This is way too impressive not to be viral. I loved every bit of it. When I saw what the app did in the begining (home workouts) I anticipated the astounding rise that'll occour when the timeline hits the Covid lockdowns and so it did. Not just impressive but inspiring.
This is a great video! Love the editing and thought that went into all of it glad the algorithm is picking up on it I hope another project is in the works behind the scenes :)
I don't know how or why I stumbled across this video but all I can say is, genuinely, fair play and congratulations, gentlemen. One hell of an achievement. All the best for the future.
This is really good content, leaving aside all motivational speaking bs on youtube, this is a person I’d allow to teach me how to make money in the new age
Just finished watching it and I have to say this was probably one of the biggest reasons I decided to pursue my ideas! Hope to come back here again after a while with good news! Thanks a lot guys!
A simple, authentic and amazing video, I've been in a crazy and endless process of building a product for two years, you have compressed the whole experience of the amazing and not simple process called "startup" and folded into 26 minutes, difficulties, despair, hope and success, there are a lot of "inspirational" videos on RUclips from all kinds of coaches, but a video like yours He is a real inspiration for you are true champions!! Humble and professionals all the way... Good luck with your next projects, Its dream to recive mentors like you, or even to be partners in my product, if you are available and jump to israel I would be more than happy to sit down with you.
I appreciate the kind words! I’d definitely be happy to connect and hopefully chat when I’m in Israel next :) LinkedIn would be the best place to send a message
this is truly inspiring ! ..It despite all the challenges you guys just never gave up with a beautiful smile . Its truely inspiring and a lesson to learn that success comes from failure after failure with enthusiasm . never venture never gain !
Brother, so proud of both of y’all, lol i dont even know you guys but so happy that you guys had the persistence to keep going and stuck w making the video!
Depending on how much they sold to the original Angels and VC, they probably made anywhere from 10-50% of that before taxes split amongst the shareholders (the first employees probably got shares as well). So probably somewhere in the realm of 0.5-3 million per person overall. Not bad.
One of the best inspirational and transparent videos of entrepreneurship out there, could we see a future video explaining the reasons to why certain previous ideas failed to execute?
Not sure when we'll do another video, but in general I'd say there was no obvious interest/demand from our user research. Some ideas were actually decent ideas but the technology wasn't there yet to do it well
Wow, this story is amazing! I am close to never commenting on RUclips videos, but this video is at another level. I love the dedication and commitment to make it work and how it turned out in the end! 🎉
This is so so so cool! I’m in the middle of this process and resonated with so much of this. It actually brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for documenting everything and thank you for the inspiration.
For an aspiring entrepreneur with a half-decent startup which didn't take off, this is the video which will keep me motivated. Thank you! Looking to connecting with you both and collaborating in the future!
Wow this come into my feed for some reason, I am creatin a Digital Identity Company, and hearing from someone from US the struggles to have a seed and make things happen gives me more hope to keep fighting. Shouting from Mozambique and happy if we could connect.
Great story and thanks for sharing! I understand the reasoning behind going to VCs before releasing so you could build and scale quickly, but wouldn't releasing and growing organically put you in a better place when you talk to VCs? E.g saying 'our app is getting this many users per month who are paying X amount' surely would put you in a better place than "we have an idea and we think people might like it, but we don't have much proof"
Thank you! We would definitely be in a better position to raise with traction, but funding helped accelerate things. We wanted to hire additional developers to build a better product/faster, and we needed at least some funding to get the motion capture suit, create the initial content, etc.
Man I'm glad I'm just an engineer at a municipal utility. Watching this I definitely don't think I could do the start up life. It looks rewarding as hell but also grueling
Thanks for this content. Very transparent. I really like the part where you showed the rejection emails for the VC's.... Congratulations on persevering through
Usually I feel like videos like these are so pretentious, but this was far from it. Really interesting seeing you fail and succeed, just shows what you can achieve with a good idea and determination. Great watch!
It's amazing how just two developers were able to pull this off up until the acquisition.
Thank you! We did have a part time team on content/design/marketing and another full time team member on engineering (but we never quite figured out how to film everyone lol). Though I didn't write any code so you're right it was just two developers
Choosing a strong engineer as cofounder seems helpful
@@ninobach7456Yup. Almost like being able to walk the talk and not just slapping AI / Web3 / Metaverse / Buzzword on stuff 😌. Awesome documentation and well earned ❤️ !
My jaw dropped at the part when you told the story of how your VC literally quit his fund to copy you guys. Kudos to you both you are absolute legends for powering through a founder's ultimate nightmare!
Same here bro. Now I believe that people actually steal ideas. One has to be very careful when sharing ideas.
@@davidconteh2231 dont trust anyone
@@davidconteh2231why won't they, when we have people like zuck as role models. 😅😂😂
I wonder what eventually happened to him.
name and shame....srsly, why are ppl too scared to name these guys
This is crazy inspiring. Me and my co-founder have been watching this on repeat and we're still in the early stages, thanks for posting!
I appreciate it, good luck with your journey!
This is so inspiring it’s insane.
Most of the time the media only shows the “overnight success” but they fail to show the struggles and failures along the way.
Thank you for sharing this process with us.
Wish you guys the best!
Thank you!!
You two should start a RUclips channel. You guys have great energy and you’re both so positive. It would be a great way to find talent and bring attention to your next business
You’re watching this on a RUclips channel what are you talking about
@@jamescliff8038 "You two" go read a fucking book.
I am so glad you captured the startup building journey from start to finish. Super fascinating and insightful to see the behind the scenes successes and struggles! I just got some new motivation in life after watching this!
So glad to hear that!
The consistent resilience and optimistic attitude you both have is incredible to watch and no doubt a huge reason why you both were successful. Congratulations and thanks so much for sharing this amazing story :)
Holy shit, this is like a real-life startup creation documentary. One of the coolest videos I've seen in a while! Thank you!
Well done guys!! This shows how hard they worked even if they failed couple of times. Such a motivation as well, everything is possible if you push yourself a bit!
Thanks! Really appreciate it!
I'm glad to hear that being an iOS developer brings you so much joy and hope! Embrace your passion for development and continue to create amazing things.❤❤❤
At a time where I questioned if it was worth it to continue building, this came at the right time. Excited to see the rest of your journey
What are you building?
@@alokwuchiemelieezekiel2973 currently building a marketplace in the food industry as a nontechnical person
From the bottom of my heart, congratulations. Your dedication, hard work, persistence and earnest attitude towards adapting to your environment and staying steadfast in all of your efforts to succeed is amazing. Your ability to adapt to the market demand at the beginning of the video was inspiring and I really enjoyed watching this! Thank you for filming and I hope you continue to do this! You just got a new sub! Also I'm a 4th year at Berkeley right now, go bears!
Thank you for the kind words, that really means a lot! Go bears!
I love that you two are working together. I would love to have a friend that will be with me on my start up journey as well 🙌🔥
Currently in a seed round, specifically rejection face. Feels good to see others going through the same and eventually getting that VC Check. Thanks for the boost and congrats!
Read the unplugged alpha by Richard cooper
this was simply amazing to watch... Like you guys just literally served through problems to find a good idea. Seems so obvious but very difficult to be committed to. Well-done!
You guys timed a HOME workout app perfectly when everyone was working from HOME
This is amazing! I truly enjoyed your documentation of the journey.
This app was innovative, thought out, and extremely well timed with covid (very fortunate for that).
I hope this video inspires more founders to document their journeys. Whether their startup succeeds or not.
Thank goodness you brought this up! Truly, investing has changed my perspective on how one can succeed in life; working multiple jobs isn't the optimal way to attain financial freedom and unfortunately, we discover this later in life. Currently earn as much as 10 grand weekly and this has improved my financial life. Great piece!
She's OLIVIA SULLIVAN FINANCIALS
She's definitely going to help you. All you have to do is look up her full name and reach out to her on her webbsite...
You're right! I have lost a lot trading all by myself without a guide. It's been an uneasy ride for me, not until I meet Olivia Sullivan
Best life changing advice is to pick a good financial mentor and let them guide you towards wealth. This really saves you from loss and time wasting. I am glad I know Olivia Sullivan.
Your right, people make money even when the market is down. I started investing recently and realised there's a secret to constant wins .
That was such a great video!
My friend an I are at the same stage right now, we raised our first round and we're running out of money and trying to make this work. This morning was bad for us, but after watching this I got more excited. Well done!
What are you creating
Absolutely love that you had the idea to document as you built. So cool seeing 2017 you talk about the company - it sometimes feels like your watching another person (maybe you technically are?? who knows). Excited to see what's next
This deserves way more attention than it has received. I'm a year into co-founding a marketplace and this was super inspiring.
As an entrepreneur myself, this was so inspiring to watch! Thank you for sharing your story. I'll keeo documenting mine. :)
this video has inspired me and this might actually be one of the most entertaining videos I have watched on youtube in a long time because I was so invested in this video
That means a lot!
Thank you for sharing your startup journey! Amazing that a startup with just a niche idea was able to make a huge impact on an industry like fitness!
This is what makes America so great. The opportunity for young, hard working engineers to build products that people actually want, and the environment to bring them to life. These are the stories that need to be pushed out to the rest of the world so we can keep attracting the best and brightest.
For anyone wondering how much they sold Onyx for:
Curefit has acquired 100% stake in Onyx in a pure share swap deal at a consideration Rs 91.84 crore or $12.7 million. Onyx's co-founders James Sha and Asaf Avidan Antonir got shares worth $5 million each and will have a stake of 0.65% each in the Bengaluru-based company. Feb 5, 2021
Curefit is now worth over 1.5 billion usd, meaning that 0.65 percent of it is worth roughly 1 million usd.
Congrats guys!!!!
This is way too impressive not to be viral. I loved every bit of it. When I saw what the app did in the begining (home workouts) I anticipated the astounding rise that'll occour when the timeline hits the Covid lockdowns and so it did. Not just impressive but inspiring.
I think it's awesome that you showed how you dealt with what at the time must have felt like failures. Very cool and inspiring!
This is a great video! Love the editing and thought that went into all of it glad the algorithm is picking up on it
I hope another project is in the works behind the scenes :)
This is inswanely inspiring! I am so starting my own company. Rawest motivation I've found so far!
Thank you! You should absolutely go for it
I don't know how or why I stumbled across this video but all I can say is, genuinely, fair play and congratulations, gentlemen. One hell of an achievement. All the best for the future.
This is really good content, leaving aside all motivational speaking bs on youtube, this is a person I’d allow to teach me how to make money in the new age
This is really fun and inspiring at the same time! Congrats on everything that you guys have achieved, and you deserve every single bit of it!
the video is so amazing and inspiring kudos to you. Hope you post some lessons about how did you build your startup . (i mean the specific stuff )
james did all the work 😂
Woz and Jobs v2
Just finished watching it and I have to say this was probably one of the biggest reasons I decided to pursue my ideas! Hope to come back here again after a while with good news! Thanks a lot guys!
Did u succeed, u didn’t come back to tell us
A simple, authentic and amazing video,
I've been in a crazy and endless process of building a product for two years, you have compressed the whole experience of the amazing and not simple process called "startup" and folded into 26 minutes, difficulties, despair, hope and success,
there are a lot of "inspirational" videos on RUclips from all kinds of coaches, but a video like yours He is a real inspiration for
you are true champions!! Humble and professionals all the way...
Good luck with your next projects,
Its dream to recive mentors like you, or even to be partners in my product, if you are available and jump to israel I would be more than happy to sit down with you.
I appreciate the kind words! I’d definitely be happy to connect and hopefully chat when I’m in Israel next :) LinkedIn would be the best place to send a message
How is this video getting only 22k views ?! very inspiring, thank you for sharing.
Well done. This is pure encouragement to everyone to chase your dreams at all costs.
this is truly inspiring ! ..It despite all the challenges you guys just never gave up with a beautiful smile . Its truely inspiring and a lesson to learn that success comes from failure after failure with enthusiasm .
never venture never gain !
well done Asaf and James , respect !
How does this video not have more views. Incredible story
Brother, so proud of both of y’all, lol i dont even know you guys but so happy that you guys had the persistence to keep going and stuck w making the video!
I needed this video . Thank you so much for sharing.
Not sure how I’m just finding this, but we sold our startup last year as well. Incredible up and down journey
Onyx was acquired for 12.7 million. Congrats guys!
Depending on how much they sold to the original Angels and VC, they probably made anywhere from 10-50% of that before taxes split amongst the shareholders (the first employees probably got shares as well).
So probably somewhere in the realm of 0.5-3 million per person overall. Not bad.
Yeah. I love you guys. Please keep existing.
I got more excited for you as I noticed the dates… haven’t got to 2020 yet but I have to say. What timing
I'm from India and I've used Cure Fit. I did use this feature, and always wondered how they did it. Thanks for this full circle!
One of the best inspirational and transparent videos of entrepreneurship out there, could we see a future video explaining the reasons to why certain previous ideas failed to execute?
Not sure when we'll do another video, but in general I'd say there was no obvious interest/demand from our user research. Some ideas were actually decent ideas but the technology wasn't there yet to do it well
It’s crazy this doesn’t have more views, well done!
Wow, this story is amazing! I am close to never commenting on RUclips videos, but this video is at another level. I love the dedication and commitment to make it work and how it turned out in the end! 🎉
What a video is this. Thank you so much for the video.. A big Congratulations to both of you..
One of the best youtube videos i have watched in a long time! loved watching the journey!
This is so so motivating. I'm on a similar journey bro and your vid just pumped me up 100X.
God bless bro.
This is so so so cool! I’m in the middle of this process and resonated with so much of this.
It actually brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for documenting everything and thank you for the inspiration.
That means a lot, good luck!
For an aspiring entrepreneur with a half-decent startup which didn't take off, this is the video which will keep me motivated. Thank you! Looking to connecting with you both and collaborating in the future!
Great video gents. It's so good to see startups documenting the process.
Incredible video, incredible story. Wow. Congratulations.
תודה! נותן המון השראה לעתיד שיהיה המון בהצלחה בעשיה!
This is exactly looks like my life- unbelievable guys. I wish you all the best
Thanks for sharing this. You guys are an inspiration to founders everywhere
I found this video/documentary very inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Good luck to your next adventure!
Incredible story, loved it! Also loved the 'dude', your loyal supporter in the process
What a wonderful video! I hope one day I can follow this path, and make something amazing.
Wow this come into my feed for some reason, I am creatin a Digital Identity Company, and hearing from someone from US the struggles to have a seed and make things happen gives me more hope to keep fighting. Shouting from Mozambique and happy if we could connect.
No idea how this ended up in my feed. Crazy to think that you guys made this before the pandemic!
Great story and thanks for sharing! I understand the reasoning behind going to VCs before releasing so you could build and scale quickly, but wouldn't releasing and growing organically put you in a better place when you talk to VCs? E.g saying 'our app is getting this many users per month who are paying X amount' surely would put you in a better place than "we have an idea and we think people might like it, but we don't have much proof"
Thank you! We would definitely be in a better position to raise with traction, but funding helped accelerate things. We wanted to hire additional developers to build a better product/faster, and we needed at least some funding to get the motion capture suit, create the initial content, etc.
This is an amazing journey. Thanks for sharing and all the best on next stages of your life!
Amazing work Asaf. It's really inspiring what you guys managed to achieve!
The best startup journey video I've ever seen!
This video has really inspired me. Thank you very much. Hopefully we can get a life update video
Great hustle.
Product-market fit means everything and execution is the best moat.
Good luck!
this deserves more views. congrats guys
What an amazing video! Really awesome to see!
This is an amazing video!
Thank you!
Man I'm glad I'm just an engineer at a municipal utility. Watching this I definitely don't think I could do the start up life. It looks rewarding as hell but also grueling
Wooohooo!!! Amazing journey and proud to have been part of it!! ❤❤
Very much looking forward to seeing what you're doing next! Great video. :-)
Thanks FOr Making This Video Man.
This is so Interesting!
Absolutely love this. Do more. Start a VC fund and do this with each startup!
Such a great journey and a video. You guys are awesome
I really love this as my friend and I are on this journey. Thanks for this
yo, thank you very much for sharing the background. Gives a lot of motivation
Wow, such a great startup idea I’m sure you went through thousands of ideas and just never quit along the way
Thanks for this content. Very transparent. I really like the part where you showed the rejection emails for the VC's.... Congratulations on persevering through
Thank you really appreciate it ❤ this content is gold! For someone that is trying to build something. You gave me a push thanks 🙏
Usually I feel like videos like these are so pretentious, but this was far from it. Really interesting seeing you fail and succeed, just shows what you can achieve with a good idea and determination. Great watch!
Hey this is a crazy capture. Congratulations to you on building a great app. Truly inspiring!
Insanely motivational. Thank you for having the forsite to document everything.
Thank you for documenting your journey,
this video is really insightful and inspirational for people who want to be entrepreneur .
11:16 reading those rejection emails actually taught me a thing or two
Such a big motivation just from watching this, I bookmarked the video for inspiration
wow thanks for sharing this amazing video
LOVE this video - this is really inspiring - hope to see more companies built!
Great video Asaf. Thanks for sharing such an intimate video and inspiring us.
$5M each for two years and a lot of hard work. Congrats, well deserved
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this. Remind me a similar process that I lived with my brother! Good luck!
Inspiring, for sure. That's all I have to write.
Thanks for sharing this video.