SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

Equality and Unicorns in 2020: Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Jason Lemkin of SaaStr. We’re going to do something a little different here, and both catch up on the state of Equality in Venture Capital and Cloud, and also revisit Aileen’s classic pieces in TechCrunch that kicked off the age of the Unicorn.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Look at Model T sales or something. That makes no sense in many ways.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. Somehow this defies logic but is true. crosstalk 00:11:49].

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Point Nine Land

MAY 6, 2019

A few tips to unlock virality and maintain low CACs at scale At Point Nine, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest in about half a dozen companies building products that are intrinsically viral (or have a built-in growth mechanism in their product). grow exponentially) while not spending more on acquiring customers. How do they do that?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Des: It would sound like you’ve gone from a scale where software companies can’t really get much bigger, and you’ve obviously come all the way down. Karen: So, we’ve talked a little bit about my background and leading up to me joining as COO. So we invested in this idea of making it easy to talk to customers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. People are like, of course I do invest in Adyen, it’s a misspelling of his name, he’s investing in himself. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this?

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