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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries. That has turned into a big win for Google.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

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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. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It’s a business crisis. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

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 have Tradeshift Pay.