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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

From 2008-2012 Nick was CEO of LiveOffice which was acquired by Symantec for $115MM). You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few. Nick Mehta’s tenure in tech began as co-founder and VP of marketing for Chipshot.com which he founded in 1998.

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The Difference Between a Manager and a Leader

OpenView Labs

Over her career, she has established a proven track record of operationalizing strategy and developing award-winning products while in pivotal roles at leading companies including Intuit, Yahoo, PayPal, Adobe, Joyent, and Sun Microsystems. As a leader, your job is to inspire people to create really great outcomes.”. Take more risks.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

SaaStr 320: SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta on What It Was Like in 2008-2009 and What We Can Expect for 2020. David Sacks is best known as the Founder and CEO of Yammer or the product lead at Paypal. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. PagerDuty alleviates the real-time operations in businesses with its versatile platform, capturing data and insights, interpreting them, engaging with the concerned people and developing concise results. Engineering.

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

SaaStr

As we’ve measured it, we looked at employee engagement. Employee engagement is actually up since the acquisition over the course of two surveys since the acquisition. Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual. We have some great competitors.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.