SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). Founder/CEO.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

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. His sales focused, actionable content made an impact on the audience. Kyle Porter Salesloft Founder / CEO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period. Finding the right VP of Sales can be an especially hard task.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. POS reinvention - Retailers are reaping the rewards of the reinvention of the point-of-sale terminal for retailers. Math-based currencies are novel ways of enabling instant settlements, low cost transactions and foreign exchanges.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008.

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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. One thing we understood very quickly was that access to money for organizing an event is quite critical.

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