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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

Most companies delegate this to user research, annual surveys or maybe the founder’s gut. Company culture is a main driver of innovation. Postscript (an OpenView portfolio company) has skillfully navigated the myriad talent market challenges by leading with culture. It’s not enough. The path to CEO isn’t linear.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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 as the CEO. To me, that’s what the cadence says. I learned this operating myself.

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SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

SaaStr

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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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean I guess I would say one critical thing that we did early on was we got them to agree that we as a leadership team were the ones who are owning the whole sort of announce and offer process to that new company for our employees. And I think one of the things that played in our favor was, JPMorgan is such a big company.

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

SaaStr

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. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? Can you guys introduce us to this company?