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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff Sloan: Thanks for having me, Angela.

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Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation

FastSpring

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. How FastSpring’s platform allows companies to test their pricing (2 minutes): Full Videos.

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What The Downturn Will Probably Look Like in SaaS

SaaStr

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services. Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny.

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5 Interesting Learnings from SurveyMonkey. As It Crosses $300m in ARR.

SaaStr

SurveyMonkey is one of the Old School SaaS companies that has followed an interesting path. days, for years it was run by a tiny team and dominated the self-service side of surveys. It stayed small until 2009 when the founders were bought out by a private equity firm. 78% Annual payments, 22% Self-Service payments.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement. Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Best For: Product Adoption.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.