SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

You can see that dollars invested by these non-traditional investors grew at 31% CAGR from 2011 to 2021, which is kind of astounding. 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. The tourists, a.k.a. They saw a 35% CAGR decrease from 2021 to 2023.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2025

A surprising number hail from the PayPal mafia. This harkens back to Jeff Hammerbachers 2011 quote, the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. There are numerous techniques that marketers must learn to build their LLM optimization skills while still running traditional SEO programs in 2025.

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