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Doubling Down: Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum

SaaStr

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. This includes real-time bank connectivity, treasury forecasting, payment automation and automated accounting and reconciliation with e.g. ERPs.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. And it has been since 2017 or so! It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. But that took time.

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CRO Confidential: The Proven Customer Acquisition Strategies Behind Toast’s Explosive Growth with Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond and CRO of Toast Jonathan Vassil

SaaStr

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. It’s the fastest-growing software business of all time. Just six years later, he’s the CRO of the company. and across the globe. In the U.S.

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Redpoint Office Hours with Medha Agarwal & Shopify’s Kaz Nejatian

Tom Tunguz

Prior to Shopify, Kaz was the Product Lead for Payments and Billing at Facebook and was the former CEO of Kash, a payment technology company that he founded and which was acquired in 2017. What are best practices for when and how to add financial services into your platform? payments, financing, banking, and insurance)?

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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The ChartMogul 2017 year in review

Chart Mogul

Here's a summary of what we shipped, published and achieved in 2017, in case you missed something! We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue. Life or death.”.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Olo at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS.