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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. There’s actually more similarities to PayPal with Zenefits than there are to Yammer. It’s a more operationally intensive company the way that PayPal was. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.

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60 of The Top Mentors at 2020 SaaStr Annual

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Sari Harrison, Center for Humane Technology , Head of Product Outcomes. Sameera Rao, PayPal, Global Head of Consumer Engineering. Nitasha Walia, Zoom, Group Product Manager. Camille Ricketts, Notion HQ , Head of Marketing. Product Marketing Manager. Michael Galloway, Netflix , Senior Engineering Manager.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. billion in 2012.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

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SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

SaaStr

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system.

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

PayPal — improved our integration to handle edge cases when ChartMogul received the notification but the transaction wasn’t available yet in the PayPal API, and we also added support for PayPal Subscription API. Google Play — added a new one-click import functionality (vs previous integration that required development work).

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.