SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. They didn’t have any cell phone credit. I’ll go easy on you.

Scale 162

Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling SaaS Payments 162

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you send that cold email personalized to every SaaS investor at eight to 10K or beyond, I think you’re going to get some meetings. The closer you are to B2C and, to some extent, eCommerce, you’re going to see more impacts in SMB, and in infrastructure, cloud and enterprise you’re going to see less.

Scale 198

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 198

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Today at Talkdesk, we had a lot of our kind of big momentum starting in 2014-2015. Another way that customers become advocates is a personal relationship with the account team. We can also ask informally during a catch-up call, a site visit, personal email out to a ballgame, would you be willing to be an advocate for Talkdesk?

Scale 143

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 143

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

Sales Hiring 158

Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 158

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. David Schmaier: Sure.

Payment Solutions 149

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 149

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. And also my personal life, my wife and we, well luckily I found out we were pregnant but we were having twins.

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. I have been at Stripe for about four years. Stripe’s ecosystem is quite large and thriving.

Payments 120

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 120

SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And what that has resulted in is that you have CIOs and their leadership teams are basically involved in architecting systems across the company and what those basically mean.

Technical Advisors 160

Technical Advisors Scale Technical Review Payment Solutions 160

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

Investment 160

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 160

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

They’ve architected the way they do payments differently in Europe. Attendee 9: What would be your advice on finding a mentor on a personal level and for management, and what are things that we should be careful about when finding a mentor? There were moments, there are brief moments in COVID, I’m just speaking personally.

Sales Hiring 209

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Scaling 209

Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

That idea eventually turned into AuditBoard, which launched in 2014 and this month secured a $40 million funding round led by Battery Ventures. We spoke with Kim and Lee to learn more about their careers, how they built AuditBoard into the company it is today, and their leadership styles. What was the Mucker experience like for you?

Payment Services 40

Payment Services VP of Engineering Interviewing Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. By 2014 it was worth a billion. Also, when you sell to start-ups, you’re often pitching a founder. The entire time.

Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Having the top customers like Pinterest, Facebook, and Spotify with other 700,000 more on its portfolio, Pingdom provides website performance data that affect the search ranking, conversions, bounce rates, page views, and revenue of the customer. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Salesforce.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19