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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. Director of Finance. VP Finance (13 Employees). Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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

SaaStr

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. The first system is what I call the sales finance system. So, the first system is a sales finance system, so let’s start with sales.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions. So I think just opening your aperture when you’re thinking about marketplace, not assuming it’s just a small commercial SMB market sales.

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

Funding becomes more tight, which means that only the most impactful and disruptive opportunities get financed. Start-ups without a clear path to leadership in at least one significant (or several smaller) market(s) will find it harder to get funding. inVision and Intercom launching their app store).