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Jason Hsiao

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
262 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

They need to do one or two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

Some people, you know, come back after six months or 12 months or five years or whatever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

So it's a little bit all over the place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

But I think more and more now we're kind of getting into the wave where people are like, OK, video is actually kind of like a form of communication.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

I mean, I start figuring out how to use this more regularly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And so the onus is on us to figure out how to make it easier and easier and kind of show people what they should be doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

Yeah, well, let's see, man.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

So we had, we were basically, a few of us actually were still working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

We were working in the TV industry here in New York, and we actually kind of started this on the side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And we worked, we gave ourselves a year to see if we could actually prove out this technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And we thought it was going to take a few months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

It took us a year to even see if we could

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

if we could do this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And it was basically the idea of rendering original video frame-for-frame in the cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

It's totally nerdy, but we were like, no one's done this before, so we're going to try to do this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And who's we?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

There are four co-founders, but there are basically three of us that were more on the product side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And I'm the least smart of the other two, who are the geniuses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

And then we got to the point where we're like, okay, well, should we do this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

Let's give ourselves a year and see if we could pull this off.