SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. There’s actually more similarities to PayPal with Zenefits than there are to Yammer. It’s a more operationally intensive company the way that PayPal was. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

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. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith Rabois is an investment partner at Khosla Ventures where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. Keith : And really we learned this lesson at PayPal. How are you feeling today?

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. 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.

Merchant Services 191

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

Whether it’s customers or retailers, figure out how to identify what is the most meaningful thing to solve and really be ruthless about prioritization, both in how you invest resources, but also what you want to really drive, what you want to build …then execute perfectly.” ” Monetization requires scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And the one thing about the bootstrapping choice is you’re choosing to invest years of your life, whether you know it or not, and they’re often the best years of your career. The way you talked to your customers was by exporting your PayPal dashboard because everyone used PayPal for subscription back then.

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