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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

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Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Zylo and TaskRabbit — July 26, 2019

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252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. I think cash collections are really important.

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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

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I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. ” No.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. Like it’s what can you do here today now for our company.