Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. It truly has been a team effort. billion to $20.7

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service Scale Underperforming Technical Team Construction 139

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. Founded : 2014. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 258

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 258

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. So, we’ve got three of them here. Jason : All right.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 210

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. I do think it will continue.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Anita Nielsen.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130