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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

First of all, weird companies, industrial paint and solvents, or shipping and logistics, and then some groups that don’t belong to those categories: some sales, some customer support, those kinds of things, but you’re right. I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. billion in 2012.

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

SaaStr

Rather than the CEO running around telling the engineers exactly what to build, you now have product managers. First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. I learned this operating myself.

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What is a Segmentation Survey? Questions, Examples & Use Cases

User Pilot

Try Userpilot and Take Your Customer Engagement to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required What is segmentation? Segmentation is a strategy used in marketing, product development, and customer support. How to segment customers in Userpilot. What city or region do you live in?

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Amplitude Analytics – Features and Alternatives

User Pilot

With cross-platform tracking, real-time analytics, powerful behavioral analytics , enterprise-level security measures, and solid customer support, Amplitude Analytics is a powerful analytics solution designed to meet the requirements of modern-day product and growth teams. Assess customer behavior behind a certain data point.

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

PayPal — improved our integration to handle edge cases when ChartMogul received the notification but the transaction wasn’t available yet in the PayPal API, and we also added support for PayPal Subscription API. As always, you can stay updated on what’s new with our product on our blog or in our release notes.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.