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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. It’s about scale and revenue.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009. PagerDuty was founded in 2009 and recently began trading on the NYSE under ticker symbol $PD this April, seeing a whopping 50% pop in the stock right at open. You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

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. Finding the right VP of Sales can be an especially hard task.

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Mobile Credit Card Processing Explained: What Business Owners Need to Know

Stax

Mobile credit card processing first came on the scene when Square released its original mobile credit card reader in 2009 and by the early 2010s, it had become a common method of accepting payments for small businesses. Popular mobile payment solutions include Square, PayPal Here, and Shopify POS.

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Best WordPress Booking Plugins

Neil Patel

million times since 2009 and is available for free here. #3 BirchPress is a reliable WordPress booking plugin that works great if you want to capture PayPal and credit card payments hassle-free. Are you booking online sales calls with prospective customers? Booking Calendar has been downloaded over 1.75

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

Former Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz pointed out that product-led growth (PLG) firms are less profitable than sales-led growth firms, poking a hole in the “product sells itself” myth, and clouding dreams of liberation from costly S&M departments. I think PLG momentum built — and peaked — in 2022. Caveat emptor.

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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 really wanted to simplify supply chains.