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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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How Stripe Dominates Online Payments by Going After Developers

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And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. It kept investing in making its overall growth model stronger. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. But Eventbrite didn’t stop there.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees. We also pay VAT in the United Kingdom.

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How Stripe Dominates Online Payments by Going After Developers

Chart Mogul

And is Stripe a good choice as your billing and payment provider? When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. Fast forward 10 years and setting up shop and accepting payments has become a lot easier, thanks to a large extent to Stripe.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. The Cambridge Analytica scandal showed just how vulnerable these platforms are to being misused by bad actors.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

Jake, Head of Customer Success for Sideways 6, explains that the current trend is to measure their success through the customer’s success, with CS being an integral part of impacting the entire business. But the the, I suppose the proper answer would be that this was probably back in 2010. David Vogelpohl 0:24 All right.