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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.

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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. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”.

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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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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. Apple, Square, PayPal, Revel, Erply and others have built portable, inexpensive touchscreen-based point-of-sale systems on by iPad and tablets that offer a better customer experience and a lower cost of ownership than the systems Micros and NCR can offer.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

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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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. SAP has grown two streams of revenue: cloud and software revenue, and services revenue. With this, it is expected to grow by 5% annually. Engineering. Today, it has more than 40 million users contributing to over 100 million projects.