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Joe Thomas

Co-Founder and Head of Product Management, Loom

Joe Thomas is the former CEO & Co-Founder of Loom, the video communication platform for async work. Following Atlassian’s acquisition of Loom in November 2023, Joe is now a Product Management leader at Atlassian and still leads Loom in its mission to empower effective communication, wherever work happens.

While leading Loom, Thomas has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Cloud 100, and America’s Best Startup Employers. He lives with his family in Atlanta.

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Atlassian welcomes the Rewatch team to bring AI-powered meeting recording to Loom

We are welcoming Rewatch to the Atlassian family. Rewatch, a platform that uses AI to optimize virtual meetings, will be integrated with Loom. Once this integration is complete, customers will be able to deploy an AI-powered meeting assistant in their virtual meetings to automatically record the meeting, take detailed notes, extract action items, and send follow-ups to meeting attendees.

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Atlassian welcomes the Rewatch team to bring AI-powered meeting recording to Loom

With Rewatch, Loom will help you run more efficient meetings by automating post-meeting follow-up

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Welcome to the Next Era of Loom

These launches are designed to do one thing: accelerate our mission to empower effective communication via video messages at work.  Alongside our continued focus on performance and reliability, they mark the beginning of Loom’s next chapter. It’s a chapter that builds on async video that’s fast, intuitive, and easy — as well as automatic and magical.

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How This Founder Uses Video Messages To Run a Company

As a Co-founder and the CEO of Loom, I often get asked how we leverage video messaging as a tool on our own teams. As we’ve grown to 100 teammates and counting, video messages improve our workplace communication and performance across the company. Ultimately, asynchronous communication has enabled our teammates — all over the world — to stay connected […]

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Three Ways to Use Async to Get to $10B

A growing number of teams are using async to build billion dollar companies. Here’s a closer look at how three fast-growth companies — Figma, Gitlab, and Upwork — are using async communication at work to create improved employee experiences, ship better products, and scale collaboration.

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Loom Raises $130m Series C to Unlock the Potential of Video for Hybrid Work

Loom announced the close of a $130 million Series C financing led by Andreessen Horowitz to power hybrid work with video messaging. We’re excited to add a16z, as well as ICONIQ Growth, to our list of investors – which includes Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Coatue, and General Catalyst.

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How to Build Company Culture With Video Messages

Video messaging isn’t just for more effective work (although it’s great for that, too), but exchanging looms has become a critical part of how we have fun and build camaraderie among our teams.

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20:VC Podcast: 3 Key Rules To Operate Remote Teams Successfully

After listening to many of his episodes and feeling like I knew him, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Harry Stebbings. What a gem of a human. We got to have a chat for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC. Check out the episode here. We covered a range of topics, including: The 3 rules to […]

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Why we raised a $30M Series B

Update: Since this fundraise in October 2019, we have since upsized our Series B with $28.75 million, bringing our total funding to $73 million. Co-led by Sequoia and Coatue, the Series B Plus round included investments from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Slack Fund, Jay Simons of Atlassian, and Dylan Fields of Figma. For more […]

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Loom for Gmail

Create & send quick videos via Gmail ✉️ Email is so deeply integrated into our lives that we hardly notice it. It hasn’t changed in recent decades yet our work is heavily dependent on this channel for communication. A lot of you have mentioned the ease of recording quick videos and the fact that it’s […]