The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Jason Hsiao ▶ 3:01 · Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will… · Jun 30, 2020

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.15

Q Can someone, can someone pay monthly or they have to pay kind of upfront annual?

A And they, and they can pay monthly. 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 video all the time. And so it's, it's very much like some people have very specific needs. They need to do one or two things. Some people, you know, come back after six months or 12 months or five years or whatever. Um, so it's a little bit all over the place, but I think more and more now we're kind of getting into that wave where people are like, oh, okay, video is actually kind of like a form of communication. Now I need to start figuring out how to use this more regularly. And so the onus is on us to figure out how to make it easier and easier and kind of show people what they should be doing.

AI assessment note: “they can pay monthly.”

Jason Hsiao ▶ 3:42 · Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will… · Jun 30, 2020

Not addressed produced feed D 1 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 3 2.40

Q So 2007 was launch date. Uh, walk me through how you got your first 10 customers. Do you remember?

A Yeah, well, let's see, man. So we, uh, so we had, we were basically, a few of us actually were still working. We were working in the TV industry here in New York, and we actually kind of started this on the side, and we worked, we gave ourselves a year to see if we could actually prove out this technology, and we thought it was going to take a few months. It took us a year to even see if we could If we could do this, and it was basically the idea of like rendering video, original video frame for frame in, in the cloud. It's totally nerdy, but we're like, no one's done this before, so we're going to try to do this. And who's we?

AI assessment note: “we gave ourselves a year to see if we could actually prove out this technology”

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