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Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by drexlspivey »

sushid wrote: post #290
claytonjy wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shareholders who got in before that last round, that is. Employees who joined in the last few years will likely have underwater options unless Loom internally repriced already-granted options.

Why are they underwater? The "value" of their options would have been the preferred share - common share price. So it would have been a fat haircut but likely still netted them some number > common share price, no?

The options are worth common share price - strike price. If the strike is higher they are worth zero

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Post by namuol »

malfist wrote: post #273
latchkey wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, what a great filter the CEO came up with. If someone doesn't want to use the product, they probably won't make a good fit to work there.

You don't have to drink the koolaide to be a productive member of the team. Drinking the koolaide doesn't mean you'll be a productive member of the team. Pretty pointless of a filter

At an early stage startup it’s absolutely critical.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by namuol »

davinci123 wrote: post #113

Atlassian has a record of failed acquisitions: Bitbucket, HipChat, Trello, OpsGenie,.. and the list goes on. Add Loom to that list. In this market, when every single collab company is struggling, Atlassian goes and acquires a collab company when there are so many companies in the DevTools space or get your pick in AI. Spending a billion on a video sharing tool? Unsure what they were thinking and who all are advising…

They didn’t spend a billion for the tech, they spent it for the huge userbase already full of fledgling enterprise leads. It’s a lead generation acquisition. I do hope they don’t ruin the product, though.

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Post by carstenhag »

Spivak wrote: post #204
baq wrote: post #174

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Click button, record video, paste link into slack/github vs click button, record video, figure out what to do with the useless huge file; also annotations and whatever ai they managed to put in there to summarize the transcript

Huh? Click button, record video, "file" appears in the bottom corner of the screen, drag that into Slack or the Github editor, done. I would be worried about the links expiring, is Loom really hosting arbitrary unlimited sized video content forever for $12/mo? Damn, it's a good thing they got bought.

With loom you can edit it quite easily. I currently use Kap (on MacOS). Tool quality it not as good as Loom. Needs more maintainers I guess.

For me, something like Loom without the online-first approach would be nice. It doesn't exist. I searched. Screenshot tools are a solved problem, screen capturing isn't.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by carstenhag »

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

I would love to have this, as someone that has to use Jira. Instead we have to extensively talk to QA (not too bad) or BAs/POs (usually bad) to figure out what someone's problem is.

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Post by aosaigh »

m3kw9 wrote: post #281

If you have a mac, buy Compressor app from Apple set up Folder watch, use Zoom to start an empty video meeting to show video of yourself, minimize(shift cmd m) and float(cmd alt f) the zoom window, then use MacOS screen record(cmd shift 5) to record. I can get this screen grab setup up running in 10 seconds. You don’t need Loom for most cases

This is such an on-brand HN response. “You don’t need Loom, just do these [10 inconvenient steps] and it’s the same”.

How do you share and upload those videos? Where are they hosted? Can you set a CTA on the video? Get transcripts? Find who has viewed your video? Add a custom thumbnail? Get comments on your video? Set a description?

These are all baked-in things that Loom handles, not to mention one-click recording that doesn’t involve wiring together 3 different apps.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by aeyes »

habosa wrote: post #122

Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid. Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the file, upload the file somewhere, and share it. And if you had to edit the recording at all ... probably start over. With Loom it's all one click and it's ready to share the instant you hit the…

I already have Slack and it has the same feature, I don't even have to send a link. Just hit record and send the video.

I guess I don't get it.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by jguimont »

aeyes wrote: post #317
habosa wrote: post #122

Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid. Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the file, upload the file somewhere, and share it. And if you had to edit the recording at all ... probably start over. With Loom it's all one click and it's ready to share the instant you hit the…

I already have Slack and it has the same feature, I don't even have to send a link. Just hit record and send the video. I guess I don't get it.

but you cannot link those into jira tickets!

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Post by theogravity »

notwhereyouare wrote: post #265
habosa wrote: post #122

Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid. Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the file, upload the file somewhere, and share it. And if you had to edit the recording at all ... probably start over. With Loom it's all one click and it's ready to share the instant you hit the…

>it's a key part of maintaining a remote culture. is it? We don't do this at my company and I feel we have a good culture

Loom is part of ours (our company is fully remote, no offices). One use-case is we use it to create demo videos of our work and attach it to our git pull requests so reviewers can see how to test our code changes. Others might be things like showing buggy app behavior.

Re: Atlassian Acquires Loom

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Post by namtab00 »

nugget wrote: post #248
zoogeny wrote: post #187

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I thought (and still think) their product is a great idea. Some people here seem to think my objection was being asked to use the product. It was actually the content of the message I was asked to send that bothered me. It wasn't "explain how your experience would be useful in this role", or "explain your feelings on the technical aspects of this product". It was something closer to "show me how excited you are to wo…

In my experience as a founder, excitement to work in a particular area is way more important than experience/skills. Ideally you have both. But lack of enthusiasm for a product, especially a niche product, kills a culture.

I'm excited for continuing to have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and maybe something extra for retirement...

I find that the expectation of "excitement" from your developers is truly absurd.

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