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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

But I do think...

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

we, you know, as a company and as, as a community, uh, we, we definitely will do better.

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

Yeah, I would say there's a lot of avenues we can go down.

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

The one that's been the most fascinating, I mean, we've gotten a lot of inbound from a lot of, like you said, the Mondays of the world that have reached out to us saying, hey, we want to take Loom and build it inside of our product using your API.

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

Oh, no, no, no.

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

Um, no, but like, I mean, there's companies similar to Monday that have reached out, um, some who've tried to acquire, you know, for the sole purpose of like, you know, this, uh, like basically what we're doing, um, on the asynchronous video side.

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

But for us, what's most fascinating right now is seeing how a lot of the, uh, knowledge worker behavior is going from more, you know, text-based to, uh, and live video conferencing to an asynchronous format.

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

And people, because, you know, like we said and talked about, are more comfortable broadcasting themselves.

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

We're starting to see that trend and we want to be the leaders of that trend.

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

And we currently are, you know, riding that wave, which is why now it's like the best time to be working on, working on Loom for us.

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

Uh, no.

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

So we are actually, um, due to the product, you know, due to us being like a remote friendly and distributed friendly product, uh, we are a remote first company.

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

So half of our team is scattered, uh, kind of across Europe and in Canada.

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

Um, and we actually have our DevOps engineer based in Omaha, Nebraska.

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

It's definitely, uh, I would say it's definitely like a people budget.

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

So like the, just like headcount and things like that.

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

Um, whereas I would say most of it was investing into people and also investing into product.

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

Yeah, I think a big part of that is looking into the data and the cohorts of how engaged

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

a lot of the users are and what are the jobs to be done and desired outcomes that they're performing with Loom that they couldn't have done prior to Loom being a product.

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

So I think if you look at