SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

Payment Services 134

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 134

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. The company raised a monster $60 million series A from Accel and Atomico in 2017 with only one prior investor, being Y Combinator. billion users to pay for virtual goods through their phones.

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 100

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. Here’s the payments and if you sign them within the week you’ll be really happy.” So, I think the burn side, right? ” No.

Payments 102

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. They don’t have an agenda. So I would avoid that at all costs generally.

Sales Hiring 154

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 154

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. 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.

Sales Recruiting 170

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 170

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

As for Jeppe, prior to founding Pleo he was the CEO @ Nodes, a design and development house that worked with brands including Loreal, BMW and Lego. How does Jeppe respond to 3 common concerns VCs have with SMBs: * The price points are so low that it takes huge volume to scale to meaningful revenue? * What changes? *

Scale 124

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 124

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Do big logo brand names really provide social validity or is it over-hyped? Prior to finding Zylo, Eric was VP of Sales at Sprout Social, leading the revenue operations team there for over 11 thousand customers.

Sales Hiring 146

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 146

CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 19, 2022

Successful SaaS companies grow in two ways: by acquiring new customers and by retaining existing customers (i.e., Renewing customers contribute significantly to your annual recurring revenue (ARR), which is an important part of the revenue stream that allows businesses to predict and strategize their internal investments.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Outsourced Development 52

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An exceptional thought leader and a brilliant coach to thousands of executives, Allison Pickens, is a leading expert on recurring revenue growth. An alumna of Yale and Stanford, Allison has contributed to the Customer Success industry as the COO of Gainsight, a prominent customer success company, and a 1B USD unicorn. Allison Pickens.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21