SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

They started in the point of sale market, and then as the company scaled, they rolled out new value props and modules for payroll, or Toast capital, or ways to manage your employee base. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007. Byron gave a great example with Toast, one of my favorite portfolio companies.

Sales Hiring 213

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 213

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When we actually did our market research, we found that 80% of physical therapists were still using and documenting on pen and paper back in 2007. One of the largest point of sale services in the world, platforms in the world. We might have stumbled onto something here. So we launched the company in February of 2008.

Scale 178

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 178

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. After graduating from high school in ’95 or ’96, he moved out to Mountain View to work at Netscape, the first massive modern internet success story with Marc Andreessen.

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 60

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Split payment settlement directly to the artist, beautiful, but this was in 2007, the year Spotify just started. We’ll continue to expand, but also we do … and not everybody knows this, but we also do a lot of transactions in the point of sale and retail space, so more and more of the payments we do are happening in stores.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 152

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And how we did that was, it’s a card that’s already linking to the point of sale device. Jason Gardner: Yeah, an interesting path over 13 years.

Merchant Services 81

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 81

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

Since its establishment in 2007, Babbel has grown its business manifold and now is a leader in the language travel market. We know it for its award-winning Android and iOS POS (point of sale) systems to the food and catering industries. Founder/CEO: Gregor Greinert, Bernd Korz, Niklas Korz, Ithamar Adema.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review SaaS Point of Sale Sales Recruiting 10

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2007. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Based in: New York.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271