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Shahed Khan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

We actually had a growth engineer at one point whose job was solely to launch an experiment once a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

And a lot of those experiments, those that exceeded, we launched into production.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Those that did not work, we ultimately just moved forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Yeah, so we came up with a bunch of ideas.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

There's a lot of things that we can experiment around, whether it's triggering someone to record a Loom video, giving them jobs to be done, specific use cases, or if they're writing up an email, it's like, hey, we noticed that you're spending a lot of time drafting up an email, just record a Loom video.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

It'll take you two minutes to convey your message.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Inside Gmail?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Inside Gmail, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

So at one point, we actually had a...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

So anyone who had the Chrome extension was able to either compose a new email with text or create a Loom recording.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

And then that video would natively insert into the compose window.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

And for anyone who had the Chrome extension, they'd be able to watch the video in line in the email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

And for those that didn't have the Chrome extension, which was obviously most of the users,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

or sorry, most of the recipients are receiving the email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

It would just be a thumbnail with the play button that they would click on and it would take them to Loom's website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

So the one thing that we talk about quite a bit here at Loom and also to our customers is.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

We see that consumer behavior tends to lead the path of enterprise by around two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

So what we saw with Instagram, Snapchat, where people would pull out their phones and it was socially acceptable to record yourself and send a video of yourself speaking to the camera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

And like these bite sized video, like video recordings files, we're starting to see that trend and behavior kind of come into the workplace.