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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

And that's why we feel, you know, with video and as more companies are becoming remote and distributed, you know, synchronous calls aren't always the best answer.

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

So sending an asynchronous quick message that takes you just two minutes, three minutes to record tends to be the better option.

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

Yeah, right now, so it's completely free user growth.

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

As we've been launching experiments, we haven't necessarily paid anything

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

There hasn't been any paid marketing done on our end.

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

It's normally been like the community has been talking about Loom.

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

And if I'm a designer at one company and I hang out with one of my other designer friends, I'll bring it up in conversation.

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

So word of mouth is also very key for us.

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

Is there a paid model though?

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

So right now we've been completely bottoms up.

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

And actually as of February 19th, we just launched Loom Pro, which is our first premium product.

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

Okay.

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

So it's at $10 per user per month.

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

And that basically allows you to do things on top of the existing free products, such as if you're a salesperson and you record a video for one of your clients, you

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

and you're trying to upgrade them, or if you're recording a video for a lead and you're trying to convert them, you can basically attach a button at the end of your video that'll allow them to go straight to, say, your upgrade page.

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

So there's a lot of things that we're allowing.

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

We're trying to take the behavior of people recording videos and making them more tactical in nature.

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

So there is a call to action or there is analytics

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

in terms of who watched the video, how long they watched it, and where they fell off.

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

So we launched Loom, the product itself, June of 2016.