Loom

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18 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2019 by Drew Sheehan · said 112 times in 24 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Everything said about Loom, oldest first

Apr 13, 2019 bullish
What-if
Sheehan estimates 10% of Birdseed users would immediately pay $40 monthly
“I think if we were to literally flip the switch tomorrow to say, hey, you can sign up for this, you know kind of like Loom, I think about 10% of those businesses would automatically just say, hey, I'd love to spend 40 dollars a month to be able to remove brand…”
Drew Sheehan Apr 13, 2019 ▶ 15:58 1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?
Jun 18, 2020 positive
Insight
Arnott: Best backlink strategy is training VAs via Loom videos
“I honestly think the best thing to do is follow somebody like Neil Patel. He's got a ton of articles on how to build backlinks and then hire a VA and you know, make a loom video. If you're the expert on that, make a loom video and show them how to do it and th…”
Andy Arnott Jun 18, 2020 ▶ 12:07 SellerSEO Gets Booted From Stripe, Now Rebounding and Bootstrapped
Jun 8, 2021
Insight
Shahid Khan: Consumer behavior leads enterprise adoption by two years
“You know, we see that consumer behavior tends to lead the path of enterprise by around two years.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 6:47 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Khan: Loom reached 1.1M registered users across 21k companies in 2.5 years
“Launched the product in June of 2016, and then in two and a half years we went from zero to now 1.1 million registered users in about 21, on about 21,000 companies around the world.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 10:22 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
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Khan: Loom's Monthly Net Burn Exceeded $100,000 for 16-Person Team
“I would say above a hundred grand. So, 16 people, half remote, half here in San Francisco.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 22:30 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
Disclosure
Khan: Loom Offered $5 Referral Credits at 100K–200K Users
“We experimented quite a bit with like a referral system where we would give say like five dollars in Loom credits for every person you'd refer back to Loom. And that kind of encouraged people early on, probably when we were at a 102 100,000 users to invite the…”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 3:56 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021 bullish
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Khan: Loom Expects 3% to 4% of Active Users to Convert to Pro
“And once premium or once loom pro had launched because we're still like in the mid month, we're expecting anywhere from three to four percent of the existing user base of active users converting over to pro.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 14:20 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Khan: Companies Similar to Monday.com Have Tried to Acquire Loom
“No, but like, I mean, there's companies similar to Monday that have reached out some who've tried to acquire, you know, for the sole purpose of like, you know, this like basically what we're doing on the asynchronous video side.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 16:36 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
Assertion Supported
Khan: Loom Patented Video Upload Process to Lower Infrastructure Costs
“We did patent, like the way we do our upload and like how we save cost being a video company.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 21:13 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
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Khan: Loom Raised Series A in Two Weeks With Eight Months Runway
“We had about we had about eight months of burn when we started to think about our series A and then the process itself, like going from initial meetings to term sheet took about two weeks.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 22:02 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
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Shahid Khan: Loom has done zero paid marketing
“There hasn't been any paid marketing done on our end. It's normally been like the community has been talking about Loom.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 7:51 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
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Khan: Loom has approximately 200,000 monthly active users
“So we have around 200,000 monthly active users.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 11:11 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Khan: Loom raised nearly $14M in venture capital led by Kleiner Perkins
“We raised just under fourteen million dollars in total. It was a pre-seed, a seed, and then our series A was most recently led by Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman, who comes from a background at, from Dropbox.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 11:34 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Jun 8, 2021
Disclosure
Khan: Loom Employed a Growth Engineer Launching Weekly Experiments
“We actually had a growth engineer at one point whose job was solely to launch an experiment once a week.”
Shahid Khan Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 4:35 Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch
Sep 2, 2021 negative
Opinion
Claap founder: Loom is for video sharing, not making decisions
“So, so I think like the main difference with like Loom, Loom, it's more like for video sharing. Like if you want to share like an update, it's like perfect, but it's not like build to basically like collect feedback and make decisions. It's not also, it's not …”
Pierre Touzeau Sep 2, 2021 ▶ 3:37 Claap Is a More Feature Rich Loom for Product Managers, $3m Raised on $17.5m Post Money Valuation
Aug 7, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Claap adds collaboration and decision-making to asynchronous video
“To sum up, it's Loom, but for feedback and decision making, because we add like on top of Loom, a layer of like collaboration together to annotate the video to make decisions and so on.”
Pierre Touzeau Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 2:07 They Used ProductHunt to Make $60,000 for their New SaaS, 6,000 signups
Aug 7, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Loom's user-centric design limits its ability to expand across enterprises
“I think like one way they build the product being like super just user centric has some limitation in actually like becoming a platform for the entire organization.”
Pierre Touzeau Aug 7, 2022 ▶ 20:04 They Used ProductHunt to Make $60,000 for their New SaaS, 6,000 signups
Nov 24, 2022 positive
Disclosure
MatterMade helped Loom scale demand post-Series A through high-intent channels
“Yeah, this would be post revenue. So this was essentially when I think they had raised a series A at this point. And they were trying to figure out how to cast a wider net. Like their goal was to increase work user signups efficiently. And so we launched this …”
Eli Rubel Nov 24, 2022 ▶ 2:01 Imagine doing $6.1m in revenue helping Loom, Dropbox, and G2 break $100m in ARR
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