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

SaaStr

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

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

SaaStr

349: Startups can get messy. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. And, wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could turn this s**t show into an army where instead of having this startup chaos, we could get the team working in lock step. Then, my next company, I founded Yammer.

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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

This summer, many VCs and startup pundits started suggesting that the key to success is simply winning the “hearts and minds” of a community. Hubert Palan, Founder and CEO at Productboard, shares how to avoid the bottleneck where the only person that’s allowed to be brilliant in the startup is the founder. One problem?

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

SaaStr

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. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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

SaaStr

We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. And there’s definitely a big belief in what we do and in our company internally. We’re still this fast moving startup, WePay, but we now have this backing with resources of a huge company.