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

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whether it was our interview with Podium’s Eric Rea on how he scaled with a team outside the Bay Area before it was really considered an option, or TripAction’s Megan Eisenberg on how to prioritize trade-offs in marketing without sacrificing pipeline, we’ve covered the gambit of relevant topics throughout the year. .

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. Companies including Capital Access Network, Kyriba, The Receivables Exchange, Biz2Credit, C2FO, Axial and others provide access to capital at scale to these enterprises.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective? Things are scaling faster. Yammer certainly scaled faster than I scaled back in the day with EchoSign or Aaron when he was here, but the pace of Slack. Jason : A lot has changed since then.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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.

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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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