SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. People pay with cash and how do you get that cash into your systems?

Payment Methods 142

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

Her portfolio is gilded with leadership roles like board director, investor, COO, and P&L owner. 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. Daphne Lopes. Donna Weber. Emilia D’Anzica.

VP of Engineering 21

VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And actually, one of the restaurants burned down and took our whole prototype with us, and that was pretty much the end of that company.

SaaS Payments 277

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 277

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A strong people strategy can create a noticeable competitive advantage by marrying culture, innovation, leadership, and inclusiveness. While culture is something many companies try to do, getting it right takes a certain finesse. In her recent talk at Recur, Katie broke down the top cultural mistakes companies make.

Company Culture 40

Company Culture Sales Recruiting Scale Software Review 40

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

Another way that customers become advocates is a personal relationship with the account team. We can also ask informally during a catch-up call, a site visit, personal email out to a ballgame, would you be willing to be an advocate for Talkdesk? One the first one, online reviews is a huge area of focus for our customer marketing team.

Scale 147

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 147

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

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. And also my personal life, my wife and we, well luckily I found out we were pregnant but we were having twins.

Sales Recruiting 180

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 180

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. You take as long as you need.

Sales Hiring 165

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale CTO Hire 165

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 101

Scale Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Services 101

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. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

Payment Services 137

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 137

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 104

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 104

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. In a lot of larger companies, they’re completely okay with giving you two or three year payments all up front. In today’s day and age, it’s about you believing the technology and you can match it to values.

Sales Hiring 147

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 147

SaaStr

OCTOBER 4, 2019

How does leadership change for Jesse in the face of scale? How does Jesse think about scaling humanity and the personal touch with the scaling of his leadership? We also tap into the more payment ecosystem, and we have ways of earning money there. Even our engineering leadership team is remote.

Scale 125

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Sales Hiring 125