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The 20 Trending VC Sessions at 2020 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

State of the Cloud 2020 with Bessemer Venture Partner. A core piece of SaaStrAnnual.com content for 4 years straight, the Cloud team at BVP is back to share the latest trends in Cloud for 2020 and 2021! Equality and Unicorns in 2020: Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Jason Lemkin of SaaStr. going from A to B).

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks?

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the ventured capital?

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? It’s very inspiring for me.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. The way you talked to your customers was by exporting your PayPal dashboard because everyone used PayPal for subscription back then.