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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. Consider WhatsApp, founded in 2009 and now hosting more than 65 billion messages every day.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 1 Intercom.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.