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$100M+ TikTok ad revenue across 250+ brands
TikTok revenue driven
Brands partnered
Outside capital raised
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.
Originally from Chicago, Thomas Ma is a performance marketer, UGC growth strategist, and exited founder.
He co-founded Sapphire Studios, a bootstrapped UGC performance agency built without outside capital, debt-free, and profitable from day one. Over a decade, the agency helped drive $100M+ in TikTok revenue across 250+ brands, including Fabletics, Amazon, Nike, Walmart, and Our Place. The agency exited successfully in March 2026.
His work centers on helping brands lower CAC and lift LTV through rapid creative testing systems, scroll-stopping UGC, and AI-powered workflow automation.
He's spoken at VidCon, YPO, and TikTok Leadership on performance creative, AI workflows, and building operating systems for creative at scale.
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.
For Founders · Growth Leads · CMOs
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.
For Creative Teams · Agency Leaders · Ops
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.
For Founders · Operators · YPO
A working session for your team. You leave with a briefing template, hooks matrix, testing plan, and review cadence you can run Monday morning.
For In-House Teams · Agencies · Offsites
Need logos, a one-pager, or a zip built around your run of show? Ask and it goes out the same day.
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.
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.
Send the date, the room, and the outcome you need. He will tell you straight if he is the right fit.