companies are generally valued based on their revenue and user base rather than their product

it is true that $975M is too high a price for a screen recorder when they could have bought a licence to Cleanshot for $19

Neat.

Does cleanshot auto upload and process the video as well?

Yeah, Loom nailed this feature. Streaming the upload while recording means the video is ready to share instantly, which is very slick. Great UX.

They really did nail it.

Maybe it’s easier now to do but it definitely was faster than a native app locally uploading to the cloud as you record.

There is an associated cloud service called Cleanshot Cloud – all licenses get a small amount of storage for free, or you can upgrade to Unlimited for a monthly subscription.

Alternatively, because it's a great native-first app, you can just set the saving directory to an existing cloud provider on your machine like Dropbox and let it handle uploading and serving the file.

Associated?

See the thing with something like loom is it just works.

I used mono snap for a while for example.

Native apps to capture are great but they seem to get acquired.

I'm not sure what your point is. Lots of apps, native or not, get acquired. What are we talking about here?

We are talking about why you are comparing an acquisition for 975M to a license purchase of $19?