Vimeo CEO Adam Gross describes the scale of Vimeo's core video hosting and player infrastructure at a SaaStr fireside chat.
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Gross: Zoom During COVID Was the BlackBerry Era of Video Collaboration
“We're going to think about Zoom and hanging out in COVID times. As the BlackBerry era, not the iPhone era, this stuff.”
Insight
Gross: Converting free users too fast harms retention and customer quality
“If you're trying to accelerate people or mine too aggressively for, convert them too aggressively from free until paid, and you don't have that engagement, you're going to pay for it on the other side and quality and retention and those things.”
Opinion
Gross: Vimeo Is Not Seeing AI-Driven Headcount Disruption Yet
“I'm not connecting those dots yet. I I'm not seeing that. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just not seeing that from where we sit.”
Insight
Gross: Infrastructure choices are the single most determinative decision for SaaS companies
“Your infrastructure choice, your platform choice, is your destiny. It is the single most determinative, ah, decision that your organization will make, and will have profound implications that will ripple across the rest of your, ah, go to market strategy, your…”
Opinion
Gross: Building proprietary data centers is no longer credible for most companies
“It is not credible for an organization, unless you're truly one of the top three technology organizations in the world, to do that. Net, if your organization is thinking about building and running its own data centers, good luck. Because that's no longer a thi…”
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Gross: Complex big data and ML stacks will deploy in 10 minutes
“By the end of the year, your developers are going to be able to stand up a stack that does this in 10 minutes. Because you're just going to consume all these things as a service. And we're going to see a rapid and dramatic commoditization in the data nature of…”