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

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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. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments.

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Applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are Now Open

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Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new). Product Leadership. Engineering Programs.

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

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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-.

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

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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. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

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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-.

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

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David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era 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. 349: Startups can get messy. Especially in growth. I learnt this operating myself.

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“7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale” New Relic EVP, Roger Scott (Video + Transcript)

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I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. We’re thinking already about what does that mean in terms of the leadership, the organizational structure that we need to have.

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