SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

In 2009, that spiked to 35%. That doesn’t mean they were all great returns along the way, but if you got into Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, or PayPal, you did quite well. Situation Two If you go back and look, we’re nowhere near the highs after the internet bubble in 2002, when 53% of all rounds done were down rounds.

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Venture Capital Management Scale AI 293

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. I know, because we were working on a game, we started our company in the beginning of 2009, and we completely missed the boat. I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. Jason : Got it.

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Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 363

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 really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 174

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual. We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. Bill Clerico : And by the way, I think that’s so atypical in acquisitions.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Formerly backseat metrics like ARR/FTE, free cashflow (FCF) margin, R40 score, and gross dollar retention (GDR) come to the front seat joining net dollar retention (NDR) and ARR growth. I disclaim that I am not a Musk fanboy and that, in general, I am disappointed by the PayPal mafia , which I once saw as so full of promise.

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Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 140

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

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