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Benchmarking Amplitude's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Sales Efficiency. -. The first is sales efficiency. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. The 2020 sales efficiency is 0.54. Revenue, $M.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

The way you talked to your customers was by exporting your PayPal dashboard because everyone used PayPal for subscription back then. It was really not until series A that we started thinking about marketing and more San Francisco-based hiring, and then, later on, sales. Finding our North Star.