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Thomas Harding

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Uh, I guess at this stage I'd prefer not to answer and, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

you know, you can sort of see the general context of where we're at today and where we sort of started four and a half years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

No, we're fully leaning into stories, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Stories have grown 842 percent in terms of the amount of content posted and consumed in the last two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And so while we started out as a Snapchat platform, we're leaning really heavily into some of these emerging spaces for stories.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we recently released our Instagram product and suddenly see some really fantastic traction in that space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And it doesn't seem to be slowing down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

I mean, Facebook themselves, you know, just this year have started saying

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

The story feed is about to take over the news feed in terms of the primary way people share and consume.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And they're not, as far as we can see, afraid to cannibalize a lot of what they've previously set up in that news feed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And we're here to support businesses who are looking to make that transition and, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So it is absolutely harder to break through the noise now more so than ever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

And this is why we really exist is to help our customers understand what is working and what isn't working.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

What are the types of stories that resonate with your audience?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

How can we double down on that strategy?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

So we're really advocating that it is harder than ever and trying to be here to support through that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

In terms of the metrics Facebook's pushing here, I think there's kind of a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

a few things at play.