Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

My classmates moved back into their childhood bedrooms, fought for part-time jobs in retail and food service. By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments.

Sales Hiring 81

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 81

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

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 stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.

Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 168

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

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 can do the private marketplaces.

Payment Solutions 154

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 154

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. What needs to change? What has changed?

Sales Hiring 149

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 149

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189