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Benchmarking Amplitude's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. The company leverages novel storage techniques to scalably collect data on how users engage with mobile apps and web sites.

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Maybe 80% of Public SaaS Companies Are in the SF Bay Area

SaaStr

In 2019, you clearly can build a successful SaaS and Cloud company outside the Bay Area. You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. And it is just sooo expensive here in the Bay Area. Like crazy expensive. And aren’t we all moving to distributed teams? Still, networks matter.

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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!

SaaStr

Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few. Curious how we came up with this list?

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Why 36% is the magic number: Finding the right amount of text in mobile apps

Intercom, Inc.

People downloaded a record 204 billion of them from the Google and Apple app stores in 2019. Outliers at the top end include Google Maps (44%), Paypal (47%), and Uber (50.5%.). Personal finance: (PayPal, Revolut) 41.0%. Mobile apps dominate our digital experiences. That ranges from just 3.5% for Snapchat to 57.5%

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Why Apple’s improved 2FA protection matters to business

IT World

Given that Apple, PayPal, and Amazon were the top three brands used for successful phishing attacks last year, according to a recent Jamf report , this matters. The FBI Internet Crime Report 2020 revealed that phishing attacks affected 241,342 victims in 2020, up from 114,702 in 2019, with adjusted losses of more than $54 billion.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

Stax

In 2015, many merchants switched to NFC-enabled terminals; by 2019, most banks were issuing contactless cards. Payment aggregators Payment aggregators, such as PayPal, have a unique system that doesn’t require businesses to set up a merchant account. This makes businesses sub-merchants under PayPal’s own merchant account.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

PayPal has continued to skyrocket, and then, of course, Zoom replacing ServiceNow in the top five from 2020, as Zoom meetings, Zoom backgrounds, and for all of us, even a little Zoom fatigue is becoming a necessary and important element of our every day. Growth rates are increasing as well, which is noteworthy.

Cloud 204