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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. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. Director of Finance. billion in 2012.

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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-.

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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

So when my co founder William and I first founded Plaid, we had this vision that we wanted to create, tools to help consumers better analyze their finances. When you thought of financial software, it was Mint, PayPal, and then like a few people hadn’t heard of, and that was it. So Plaid had a bit of a rocky early start.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (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-.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. Harry Hurst: There’s an alternative to that, diluted equity financing.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. Finance & Accounting. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account.