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Welcome, StreamYard
As we start the year, I’m more than thrilled to announce that Hopin has actually obtained video streaming platform StreamYard.
When I initially fulfilled Geige Vandentop, CEO of StreamYard, in 2019, I recognized something was different. Geige’s business laser-focus on giving a straightforward option to a complex trouble resonated deeply with me as both a designer as well as a business owner.
He and his founder, Dan Briggs, designed StreamYard in a comparable means I developed Hopin. We sought to disrupt large but not extremely tech-forward industries in a way that made them simple and useful for any individual. We both held the idea that a trusted as well as top notch product goes a long way in growing client count on.
Over the following year, we kept in touch, checking in, talking shop as well as sharing updates. When the pandemic hit, whether we prepared for it or otherwise, we found ourselves in a comparable situation.
Both Hopin and StreamYard expanded greatly in 2020. StreamYard’s story is interesting– 2 engineers grew a software program company to $12 million, all on their own. In 2020, they built out their group to 19 and that number increased to over $30 million. All bootstrapped. Likewise, Hopin, backed by great financiers, scaled from no profits and 6 workers to $30 million and 300 staff members.
Over the last year, our companies drew closer. Hopin clients, such as Search Engine Journal, College of Notre Dame, as well as Messari enjoyed utilizing StreamYard to create programs inside their occasions on Hopin. Of the myriad of options that Hopin functioned perfectly with, StreamYard was our consumers’ best and also most favored service for their occasions on Hopin. As a matter of fact, the Hopin team found themselves utilizing StreamYard and even recommending that organizers utilize StreamYard to make their events a lot more professional and also interesting.
One conversation with Geige led to another till we found ourselves mentioning greater than just incorporating. There was merely too much possibility to provide mutual value for our consumers. Already, our platforms worked seamlessly together and our brands straightened on vision and also worths. Our teams were both remote-first, quick working, as well as modest– it was amazing to picture what we can achieve, not just discovering with each other, but likewise developing with each other.
This acquisition incorporates the stunning video production top quality of StreamYard with the full end-to-end online occasions experience of Hopin. The outcome? Hopin coordinators are able to produce occasions that dazzle their participants– across every element of the experience.
With each other, we aim to give a smooth, high-grade client experience that makes individuals, not locations, the heart of occasions.
Going forward, both StreamYard and Hopin customers will certainly remain to have the ability to make use of the services they know and enjoy as they always have– no sudden or sudden changes will occur. Just once we begin finding out the most effective method to make the customer experience better will certainly we start to develop a roadmap to bring both product experiences closer with each other. We expect paying attention and also learning together with our neighborhoods.
Ultimately, this is a win for our sector also. As one business, Hopin+StreamYard will deliver an unequaled value proposal in the international events market as well as will help us achieve the enthusiastic development objectives we aim to accomplish in 2021 and also beyond.
Please join me in inviting StreamYard to the Hopin family. I can’t wait to see the magic we develop with each other.
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