SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. billion in 2012.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Stewart : If we had started in 2008, your question before, we would not have taken off like this, for a number of other reasons. I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. There’s actually more similarities to PayPal with Zenefits than there are to Yammer.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

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. I stand on the shoulders of many people who have invested in me.”

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

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.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. For that, we’ve really invested in finding the right distribution partners.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

The company started back in 2007, 2008. And in my view, you may not necessarily invest in it as early, but you will be thinking about what customer success means and how you’re going to implement the whole motion of customer success. So we’re into our second decade. As I was introduced, we have 17,000 customers.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We had built this amazing team that I wanted to make sure that we continued to sort of grow and invest in and kind of keep the band together. How many of you guys sort of are on the investing side? And so it’s a company that makes huge investments in technology. There’s a huge level of excitement and investment.

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