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Thomas Ma

Keynotes, firesides, workshops

A decade of receipts, on your stage.

Bio, headshots, topics, and the intro your host reads. Take what you need.

$100M+ TikTok ad revenue across 250+ brands

StagesVidConSXSWEcom NorthYPO Global Summits
$100M+

TikTok revenue driven

250+

Brands partnered

$0

Outside capital raised

Creative at scaleAI + human intuitionBootstrapped to exitUGC Playbook workshop
01Bio

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Thomas Ma is a Chicago-born performance marketer, UGC growth strategist, and exited founder. He co-founded Sapphire Studios, a bootstrapped and consistently profitable UGC performance agency that helped drive $100M+ in TikTok revenue, before a successful exit in 2026.

Thomas has spoken at VidCon, YPO, and TikTok Leadership on performance creative, AI workflow automation, and building creative systems at scale.

02Talks

The talks people actually ask for.

№ 001Keynote · 30–45 min

Creative at scale: the UGC operating system

A decade of lessons from inside TikTok's creator economy. How to build a testing engine that compounds learnings and keeps CAC down as you scale.

  • 01The hooks matrix that drove $100M+ in revenue
  • 02How to brief creators for auction-ready ads
  • 03The 3-variant testing cadence that finds winners fast

For Founders · Growth Leads · CMOs

№ 002Keynote · 30–40 min

AI + human intuition: the new creative stack

Why AI doesn't replace the creative director. It replaces the bottleneck. A practical look at the workflows we built to ship 10× the creative volume.

  • 01Where AI wins, where humans still own the call
  • 02Our full production pipeline, tool by tool
  • 03How to protect taste while ditching the grind

For Creative Teams · Agency Leaders · Ops

№ 003Fireside · 45–60 min

Bootstrapped to exit: building without capital

How we built Sapphire Studios from zero to exit without outside capital, debt, or a single layoff. A candid story of compounding, discipline, and saying no.

  • 01The 10-year decisions that made the exit possible
  • 02When to hire, when to wait, when to walk away
  • 03Post-acquisition: what changes, what doesn't

For Founders · Operators · YPO

№ 004Workshop · 2–4 hrs

UGC Playbook workshop: hands-on

A working session for your team. You leave with a briefing template, hooks matrix, testing plan, and review cadence you can run Monday morning.

  • 01Custom hooks matrix built around your brand
  • 02Weekly testing cadence documented for your team
  • 03Creator brief templates + variant planning

For In-House Teams · Agencies · Offsites

03Assets

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Thomas Ma headshot, 03 / On stage
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04Intro

What the host reads.

15 seconds, walk-on

Please welcome Thomas Ma, co-founder of Sapphire Studios: the bootstrapped agency that drove more than one hundred million dollars in TikTok revenue for 250 brands before its exit in March 2026.

60 seconds, full read

Our next speaker spent a decade building one of the most influential creative agencies in the TikTok ecosystem.

From a bootstrapped shop in Chicago, he and his co-founder grew Sapphire Studios to drive over one hundred million dollars in TikTok revenue across 250 brands (names like Fabletics, Amazon, Nike, and Walmart) before exiting the business in March of this year.

His work sits at the intersection of creative intuition and AI-powered systems. He's here to talk about what actually moves the needle in performance creative. And what's coming next.

Please welcome: Thomas Ma.

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