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What Does ZoomInfo’s Acquisition of Datanyze Signal to the Sales Industry?

Sales Hacker

For many years salespeople at companies like Box, Citrix, Paypal and more have relied on Zoominfo, founded in 2000, as their foundational database of millions of business profiles and contacts when prospecting and sourcing leads.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

Stock-based compensation (SBC) is increasingly controversial. I disclaim that I am not a Musk fanboy and that, in general, I am disappointed by the PayPal mafia , which I once saw as so full of promise. It was a flashback to enterprise reporting circa 2000 (back when you had the report backlog ) and I was instantly hooked.

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. 10, 11 years… I mean, it’s better than we ever thought. So we figured out a long run, but even before you update your LinkedIn and then bam.