SaaStr
JULY 17, 2020
353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. For example Founders Fund, I don’t think we changed our criteria at all, but I felt like maybe we were on the 20th percentile in terms of conservatism on some of these metrics.
SaaStr
JULY 15, 2020
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. But we’ll still put up two backs even with COVID, which by most metrics that’s a pretty good year. I think by segment.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
So the first product we launched had an integration with PayPal that made it very easy for the event organizers to get all their ticket sales directly into their PayPal account as they were happening in real time. That’s the one key metric we use. I think that you’ve heard that before.
Kellblog
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
Formerly backseat metrics like ARR/FTE, free cashflow (FCF) margin, R40 score, and gross dollar retention (GDR) come to the front seat joining net dollar retention (NDR) and ARR growth. 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.
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2019
He had a company called Wily back in 2000 that he started, that ultimately sold on to Computer Associates, and really was seen as the father of the APM market segment, and learned a number of things in that experience that we then applied in terms of building New Relic, which is his second go around on the whole monitoring space.
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