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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with MessageBird and Gainsight — October 18, 2019

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The company raised a monster $60M Series A from Accel and Atomico with only one prior investor being Y Combinator. As for Robert, prior to founding MessageBird, he was co founder and CEO st zaypay.com, which focused on driving mobile payments into 50 plus countries, enabling over 1.5 Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

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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.