SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

Rather than the CEO running around telling the engineers exactly what to build, you now have product managers. Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. I learned this operating myself.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. Then, my next company, I founded Yammer. Especially in growth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So I think it was the first time in 10 years or something the editor couldn’t find a company in the Wall Street Journal database. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And it’s also a company that employees 50,000 software engineers. And so it’s a company that makes huge investments in technology. We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. We have some great competitors.

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