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

Andreessen Horowitz

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. Subscribe to the a16z channel on YouTube and follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Confidence and the Gender Gap: 14 Tips for Women in Tech

Sylvia Ng

It’s been 6 years since I left eBay, but I continue to be amazed by the group of colleagues that I had then, because many of them have gone on to hold leadership roles at great companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Shopify, Paypal, and LVMH. So what do I tell the women? How do we get more women into tech companies?

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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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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

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Harry Hurst. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Hurst: Yes, so there’s an old adage, sales overnight, brand over time. Harry Stebbings. Harry Hurst. Robert Vis.