SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Jason : Stewart, picking up on that, I didn’t become a Slack groupie until about three months ago when I was building some product for SaaStr, and then I got it, when I actually had to build software. Stewart : If we had started in 2008, your question before, we would not have taken off like this, for a number of other reasons.

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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. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. billion in 2012.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. 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.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. ” Around 60% of enterprise software features are never used, so as a customer, you just pay for maintaining them. We sell enterprise SaaS software. We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

New Relic, provider of real-time insights for software-driven businesses has this formula figured out. And that allows our customers to build better software, much more perfect software, to have better relationships, and to also build better businesses. The company started back in 2007, 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. Still the case for some API’s actually, but we now changed completely the way we build software.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Bill Clerico : We, I think are going after super exciting part of the market, which is software companies trying to embed payments. And it’s also a company that employees 50,000 software engineers.

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