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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

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From strategies in recruitment and team building to sales tactics, these leaders from Salesforce, nCino, and Vlocity, will discuss the top tips for moving beyond horizontal SaaS and building a billion-dollar SaaS company. David, you talked a bit about the team and the founders. Well, to most of you, that may not seem crazy today.

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

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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.

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

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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.