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Shahid Khan

Co-Founder and General Partner, Hyper · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded Loom, an asynchronous video-communication platform that was acquired by Atlassian in 2023 for approximately $975 million. He subsequently launched Hyper, an early-stage venture firm and accelerator backed by firms including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.

12statements → 9claims → 2claims resolved → 3.75/5average certainty → 1.17/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Shahid argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

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

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Shahid Khan on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Shahid Khan said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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
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
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
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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
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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch Jun 8, 2021 14m
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