Jason Hsiao
Co-founder & Chief Video Officer, Animoto. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jason Hsiao co-founded the cloud-based video creation platform Animoto in 2006, serving as Chief Video Officer and President through its growth to millions of users and eventual acquisition by Canadian tech company Redbrick in 2023. Prior to tech entrepreneurship, he worked as a television producer for MTV Networks and Comedy Central.
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17statements
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Everything Jason Hsiao said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hsiao argues 'try a lot of things' is terrible startup strategy advice
“The biggest kind of bullshit kind of strategy advice we've been given and what a lot of people tout is just try a lot of things and see what sticks. And I just realized, man, especially for any kind of early stage startup, time and resources is limited, and yo…”
Video SaaS faces intermittent usage because customers rarely produce video continuously
“And what's interesting about video as opposed to, I think, a lot of other SaaS businesses is video is still kind of one of those things. Even though video is everywhere, not everyone is actually convinced that they, you know, yeah, that they need to be using v…”
Animoto operates with a 24-month customer acquisition cost payback period
“We kind of use a 24 month payback period.”
Animoto's average revenue per customer is $200 to $250
“Yeah, more like the two, two 50 kind of range. So we kind of have our professional plan, the middle plan.”
Animoto pitched Sequoia the exact week the 2008 financial crash hit
“We were actually about to raise kind of our first serious round, like literally the day, the week of that, where everything kind of like everything crashed and Sequoia posted their rest in peace, you know, memo or whatever it was. And we were like sitting in w…”
Animoto has over 100,000 active paying subscribers
“We have active, we've got like a 130 active paying subscribers, and a lot of them are kind of coming back. So, but active, I'd say right now, like, you know, over a 100,000.”
About 20% of Animoto customers remain active subscribers indefinitely
“We know that, I don't know, about, like, about 20% of folks who come in will actually just stick around, you know, with us forever.”
Animoto maintains a net revenue retention rate close to 100%
“I'd say it's close, but I think where we do better is we're kind of strong in our top of the funnel. So our growth kind of comes more from top of the funnel and finding new, new customers. I think we could actually honestly do better and kind of like the win b…”
Animoto spends approximately $1 million per month on paid advertising
“Oh, yeah, yeah. Probably yeah, it's probably around, it's probably up there, around there, and we're trying all sorts of different channels”
Animoto attracts approximately 150,000 new business trial users per month
“Business customers, we get probably average about a 150,000 a month.”
Animoto converts roughly 7% of free business trials into paying customers
“We have about, like, a seven percent conversion rate.”
Animoto employs zero quota-carrying sales reps due to its low price point
“Too cheap for that. We've kind of entertained the idea, but I think It's we need to rely more on kind of cheaper channels.”
Animoto has operated cash-flow neutral or positive since its inception
“Pretty much from day one, we have run basically a cashflow, you know, call it neutral business. So we were always, we've always been making money.”
Animoto is growing at approximately 20% year-over-year
“No, no, we're probably like in the 20% growth rate.”
Hsiao predicts Animoto will reach $50 million ARR within 24 months
“Probably a couple years, maybe a year and a half. 17 months, 18 months.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Jason's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-founder & Chief Video Officer, Animoto | 1 | 17 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |