Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by amrrs » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

Atlassian Acquires Loom
atlassian.com

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by andygcook » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:41 PM UTC

For anyone else curious, Loom raised $205M with the last round at a $1.5B valuation. This deal is for $975M in cash.

Sources: - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/loom

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenli1/2022/03/14/nearly-bro...

- https://twitter.com/andrew__reed/status/1712458243883110599?...

(Edit: formatting)

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by Corrado » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

Darn it! We just started looking at using Loom to enhance our development efforts. I'm loath to add another Atlassian product to our lineup though.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by athorax » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

Who is asking for this?

  As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by candiddevmike » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:44 PM UTC

$1.5B for a screen recorder

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by chrisandchris » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

Generation TikTok?

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by a1o » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

candiddevmike wrote: post #5

$1.5B for a screen recorder

I thought it was a point and click game

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by tekla » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:47 PM UTC

athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

> personalized welcome videos

Kill me please.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by bayindirh » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

Well, being able to screen record a reproduction of a bug is practical, and it's easy to do it in macOS or Linux, but I'm not sure about this on Windows.

Maybe a unified tool with a better integration will allow better bug reports, but pep talks by management at scale? No, thanks.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by s3r3nity » Thu, Oct 12, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

athorax wrote: post #4

Who is asking for this? As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos

>engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira

I see this issue all the time in bug reports and it can be pretty helpful to see a short video on how to replicate the issue. Depending upon the type of user submitting those reports they are often _more_ helpful than straight text because I don't have to have as lengthy back-and-forth Q&A on getting more details.