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

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David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. 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. David Sacks has invested in over 20 unicorn companies, including Airbnb, Bird, ClickUp, Facebook, Slack, and Uber. billion in 2012.

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10 Must-Read Books for Startup Founders

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In The Hard Thing About Hard Things , Horowitz distills years of experience building companies into actionable lessons of leadership. The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Ben Horowitz is a cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected entrepreneurs and investors. Listen to it here!

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

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Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. This is almost always the best investment you can make to help. But after that, it’s tough. OK besides a blanket Don’t Ever Do Double Stretches Except in Year One, what’s another idea, SaaStr? Get them a mentor VP on Day 1 who they can talk to.

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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

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If you don’t invest in your docs, you’re cutting your growth. We know the route to leadership is less of a straightforward path and more of a rollercoaster. This theme of unconventional paths to leadership continued when Casey Renner spoke with Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet for our BUILDing to Boss mini series.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

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353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Some of these businesses, maybe even many of these businesses, have started investing more and more in selling online to their preexisting in store customers. crosstalk 00:11:49].

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

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Rico Mallozzi: Yeah, I think oftentimes people look at marketplaces as like a storefront, like an eBay, but it’s much more like a PayPal. And it will require a collaboration across the organization at the leadership level. It’s definitely an investment that requires that kind of executive level visibility.

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Women in Tech: How to Get Ahead in a Male-dominated Industry

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of all senior leadership positions. of the total VC money invested over the year – the exact percentage that was reported in 2017. Ironically, these abysmal numbers stand in direct contradiction to the fact that having women in leadership positions is good for business. In 2018, U.S. female founders raised $2.88