SaaStr
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. billion in 2012. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
After building their initial prototype, the team presented at Startup Weekend in Columbia and won. “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army.” David Sacks has a long history in tech from his time as a Founder and CEO of Geni.com and Yammer to his stint as COO of Paypal. The rest is history.
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Andreessen Horowitz
DECEMBER 5, 2023
This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. When you thought of financial software, it was Mint, PayPal, and then like a few people hadn’t heard of, and that was it. How’s this working?”
SaaStr
AUGUST 12, 2020
So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups. billion dollars.
Sales Hacker
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Both have ranked very highly in recent years as top tools for startup sales tech stacks, as shown by Bowery Capital’s most recent Annual Sales Stack Report here. In more recent years though, innovative teams have used Datanyze, founded in 2012, as an intelligence layer on top of basic contact information.
SaaStr
JULY 3, 2020
349: Startups can get messy. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. And, wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could turn this s**t show into an army where instead of having this startup chaos, we could get the team working in lock step. Especially in growth. How do we solve this?
Point Nine Land
MAY 6, 2019
From online surveys at Typeform in Barcelona in 2012, client-facing documents at Qwilr in Australia in 2016, and collaboration videos at Loom in the US in 2017 to more recent communication videos with Playplay in Paris, we’re big fans of these products (and companies).
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