Exciting news today. @Loom is joining @Atlassian. The company has entered a definitive agreement for Atlassian to acquire Loom for $975m. 25 million users. 1.5 billion minutes recorded. 1.8 million workplaces. 8 wonderful years in the making.

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Have there been any studies / focus groups on how using AI impacts critical thinking in teens and adults long term?

Some news - I raised $175M for Verified Capital with a plan to back transformative technology companies at any stage of their journey. Thanks to @_IainMartin for the writeup in Forbes. https://t.co/JBmbEh0CCp

Chainlink: Linking Crypto to Capital Markets.

Loom was almost named Veedyo (lol)

sf for a week! reach out if you’re around

everyone’s fixated on AI coming for our jobs, yet no one talks about how you can’t use em dashes anymore—without people thinking chatgpt crafted your response!

Request for Product: A chrome extension that makes the UI of Crunchbase bearable.

Before adopting Priority, Arkal struggled with disconnected systems, manual reporting, and disconnected data across multiple sites. Now? A unified ERP, real-time insights, streamlined reporting, and full control across the globe.

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Enjoyed catching up with @gregisenberg and chatting about a few startup ideas I've been thinking about lately. Listen here:

What a blast going down the memory lane with @yoyo_thomas on @KPGrit with @Joubinmir and reminiscing about the early days and the journey of @loom. It took a lot of Grit from @yoyo_thomas, @vhmth, and @_shahedk and the team in the early days. Some of the stories we rehash are the

The Olympics but for New Yorkers finding Citi bike parking spots within a half-mile radius of Soho.

I have so much respect for the @loom design team and it’s such an honor to start working with them as colleagues.

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To our complete surprise, he accepted. He walked away from the negotiation. The legal team agreed to sell the domain to us for $75K. He walked away with $75k. We paid $150k altogether for a domain that was worth well over $500k. We won with luck.

The CEO's biggest worry was wasting time on finding a new name and coming up with an entirely new brand design. Our only chance at settling this immediately was to offer to pay for this company to rebrand away from 'Loom'. So we offered him $75k cash, upfront. Contingent to him

After numerous Zooms and emails with their CEO — we were eager to win this deal. We told him we had just closed our Series A and were willing to compete as we had a trademark on the name — and our users had officially associated us with Loom. Joe, Vinay, and I had to become

There was no way we would compete at a price that high, but the other company was not willing to back down. Lucky for us, they hadn't shared their budget with the legal team / and the legal team never mentioned our bid to them.

The legal team put us in touch with the competing party and told us to negotiate on price and come back to them with the highest offer. This startup, was pre-product, raised less than we had... and already had approval from his Seed partner to spend upwards of $500k on this

Weeks had gone by. I sent email after email. Messaged their legal team over Linkedin connection requests. Almost a full month after we had settled on a price, I hear back from their legal team. Just a few days earlier — they hear from a separate party also *very* interested