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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jason Hsiao is the Co-founder and Chief Video Officer of Animoto, an award-winning online video maker that makes it easy for anyone to create professional marketing videos. Animoto’s certified partnerships with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the Small Business Administration give it unique insight into the changing social media and business landscape, which may be why more than 1 million businesses around the world have used Animoto to create marketing videos that stand out on social media and beyond. Prior to founding Animoto, Jason was a producer for MTV Networks and Comedy Central.

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We run a cash flow neutral business, right?

0:02.7

So everything we make, we basically put right back in Animato.

0:06.8

So technically it's like we could probably hit, yeah, 30, 40% if we want it, but we're

0:11.7

reinvesting everything right now.

0:14.8

You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka.

0:19.0

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0:39.2

founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting. Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom

0:46.1

public. We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several years. Or bootstrap

0:52.3

founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

0:54.7

When I started the company, it was not cool to raise.

0:56.9

Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

1:02.8

We want to see a real pervasive data culture, and then the rest flows behind that.

1:07.8

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1:25.6

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1:30.2

requests no questions asked. Hello, everyone. My guest today is Jason Schau. He's the co-founder

1:37.4

and chief video officer of Anamoto, an award-winning online video maker that makes it easy for

1:41.8

anyone to create professional marketing videos.

1:44.7

Jason, you ready to take us to the top? Let's do it. So you guys have been around a while,

1:48.4

when was launch date? We actually first launched in 2007, which sounds like ancient years ago.

1:55.5

I was actually like before, I think it was like before the iPhone or no, the iPhone just came out,

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