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Dear SaaStr: I Sold My Company And Made Real Money, But I Still Feel Like A Loser. What Should I Do?

SaaStr

David Sacks made tens of millions at PayPal but had to do more. Now, he now manages $3 Billion+ at Craft Ventures. Dave Duffield made $10 billion when Oracle took over Peoplesoft … but he still had to go and co-found Workday. So he founded Yammer and sold it for $1B+ cash. And he made millions as an angel investor.

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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. You will need to promote and hire more mid-level managers. . Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

SaaStr

Typical examples are: A top individual sales exec with no management experience wanting to be a VP of Sales. A director of sales with some team management experience that wants to be your CRO, and own the entire number, including renewals, success, everything. Time helps them grow 2 steps up the management ladder.

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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

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. As Merline says, “Your title makes you a manager.

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Applications for Reforge’s Spring 2022 Cohort are Now Open

Casey Accidental

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Engineering: Scaling Product Delivery , Technical Strategy , Engineering Management (new). Product Management Foundations.

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SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

SaaStr

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era 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. 349: Startups can get messy. Especially in growth. I was the CEO.

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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Rather than the CEO running around telling the engineers exactly what to build, you now have product managers. 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. I learned this operating myself.

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