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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?

I know that's kind of like a non-answer.

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

Well, yeah.

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

Yeah, probably about 25%.

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

Okay.

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

Yeah.

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

I mean, it's always hard, you know, you look at other companies and I think it's, we just have to understand the type of product we are, which is video.

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

And it's just different from like email or some other things.

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

And so in some ways we're kind of figuring things out as, as we go.

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

Yeah.

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

Oh yeah.

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

We have kind of teams dedicated to, you know, like how do we upsell or win backs and all those.

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

Um, I'd say it's close, but I think where we do, where we do better is where we're kind of strong in our top of the funnel.

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

So our growth kind of comes more from top of the funnel and finding new customers.

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

I think we could actually honestly do better and kind of like the win back or retention side of things.

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

Interesting.

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

Um, I think part of it will just come from the macro trend of people actually realizing that they need to do video more and that's becoming kind of more cost effective than some, some other traditional marketing channels.

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

Well, I know this, this probably, it actually is word of mouth and we've tried, you know, Jason, that is the most boring answer you could possibly give.

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

Well, I'll actually say our second biggest.

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

So word of mouth, and it's because we're a video company, so we happen to be the type of product that people share and talk about, and it's visual and it's exciting.

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

But the one that we can actually control better, it is basically direct paid marketing, primarily on Facebook, on Instagram, on social media.