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

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In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : When I’m from… pick your company, Dow, and I want to buy 1,000 or 2,000 seats of Slack next year, I’m not going to talk to a sales rep, and I’m going to pay a list price?

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

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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-.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (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-.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. But I think that was when everybody had the proverbial partner meeting discussions about what are we funding, why are we funding, what price are we funding. I think by segment.

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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. But I think that was when everybody had the proverbial partner meeting discussions about what are we funding, why are we funding, what price are we funding.