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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. We felt confident that the profitability constraints the debt imposed would be healthy for the business.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. And at the time we thought we were absolute rock stars. We were like 18 people at the time.