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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

the specific behaviors and seeing how Loom is adopted, say, from an individual contributor all the way up to an executive.

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

And then an executive records a video summarizing, say, a quarterly update and sends that to his entire marketing team.

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

And then you have this trickle effect where now the entire marketing team is signing up because they see their manager, their boss, using the product as well.

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

I would say looking at those behaviors that we start to see in a lot of these companies with Loom was one of the bigger selling points.

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

And that's kind of what's going to allow us to see how Loom evolves.

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

I would say it was a big part of it.

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

Um, I, I love Eric.

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

He's a very nice guy.

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

Um, we have like conversations about selling the company have not been a topic here.

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

I would say everyone is generally excited about like the opportunity that's ahead of us.

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

And I think we're pretty, we're, you know, we're, we're in, we have a, we have a very clear path to get there.

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

So, I mean, like from a financial perspective, we were still burning because we were completely bottoms up and we just launched our premium tier.

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

So it was more so looking at, you know, from a cost perspective.

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

So there are a couple of things that went into place.

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

We did patent like the way we do our upload and like how we save cost being a video company.

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

So that was one thing, you know, investors looked at, like, can this scale say if we're 15, 20 million users tomorrow?

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

And then my co-founder, Vinay, who is our CTO, also has a background in video.

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

And his previous company, he worked at and led an engineering team at a company called UpThere that was acquired.

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

And that was basically...

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

taking on Dropbox and for storage.