FastSpring

APRIL 8, 2021

Remember when PayPal first came on the scene? But 2000 was a big year for PayPal. In March of 2000, they hit 1 million users. So, if you take away the credit card option, you’ll lose those sales, which will hurt your conversion rate. Then by September of the same year, they reached 5 million users.

Payment Methods 129

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions PayPal 129

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

A couple weeks ago Zoominfo , a premiere B2B contact database, acquired Datanyze , a more recent pioneer that arms sales teams with technographics about their leads. The sales world is abuzz about these two joining forces! The sales tech stack arms race continues, but in a different way.

Acquisition 58

Acquisition Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Sales 58

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. Look at Model T sales or something. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter.

Venture Capital 175

Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 175

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. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. Somehow this defies logic but is true. I think by segment.

Investment 151

Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 151

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. One thing we understood very quickly was that access to money for organizing an event is quite critical.

Payments 118

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 118

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Former Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz pointed out that product-led growth (PLG) firms are less profitable than sales-led growth firms, poking a hole in the “product sells itself” myth, and clouding dreams of liberation from costly S&M departments. I think PLG momentum built — and peaked — in 2022. Caveat emptor.

Software Review 120

Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 120

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.

Scale 169

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 169