Remove 2008 Remove Leadership Remove PayPal Remove Scaling
article thumbnail

The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

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. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. billion in 2012.

CTO Hire 245
article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

Let’s start with the first one, which I think really is to prepare your core product for scale. 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.

Payments 119
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. It’s really kind of interesting to be inside a financial institution that operates at that $2 trillion scale. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. And I wanted to share a little bit of my experience and the company’s experiences of building the company to a scale that we are today. Good afternoon.

Scale 172