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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

Another guest, Paige Paquette built and scaled platform and developer marketing at Slack. Most companies delegate this to user research, annual surveys or maybe the founder’s gut. Company culture is a main driver of innovation. We know the route to leadership is less of a straightforward path and more of a rollercoaster.

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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

The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. And so it was this thousand X increase in terms of the size of the company. So the scale is sort of mind blowing in certain ways. Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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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?