SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012.

CTO Hire

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

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-.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

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 learnt this operating myself.

Software Review

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. Okay, so the crazy thing is that when I was doing PayPal and Yammer we really just used Excel. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

Startup

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

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-.

Merchant Services

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. We’re thinking already about what does that mean in terms of the leadership, the organizational structure that we need to have.

Scale

Baremetrics

JUNE 16, 2021

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!

Scale

OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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. The path to CEO isn’t linear. That’s the key to scaling your user base.

Scale

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 sponsored by Lightmatter. SaaStr’s Founder’s Favorites Series features one of SaaStr’s best of the best sessions that you might have missed.

Venture Capital

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

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. So I think that’s key in your assessment phase as well. Rico Mallozzi: Yeah.

Scale

User Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Product Drive Categories This year’s Summit Drive features talks in four categories : product management and leadership, product growth, product marketing, and AI & product management. Userpilot Product Drive 2024 talk categories. Carlos is also the author of the bestselling The Product Book.

Scale

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So the first product we launched had an integration with PayPal that made it very easy for the event organizers to get all their ticket sales directly into their PayPal account as they were happening in real time. One thing we understood very quickly was that access to money for organizing an event is quite critical.

Payments

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Eventually they settled upon using a combination of Stripe, Chargebee and Paypal. It’s not just a tool for the leadership team; it’s accessible to everyone in the company, fostering a culture of transparency and accountability. If something’s off, you need to diagnose the issue—whether it’s churn or conversions—and address it swiftly.”

PayPal

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

of all senior leadership positions. Ironically, these abysmal numbers stand in direct contradiction to the fact that having women in leadership positions is good for business. Nonetheless, I’ve had the privilege of holding key tech positions at some really great companies including Charles Schwab, Salesforce and PayPal.

Technical Review

Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product: Product Leadership , Product Strategy , User Insights for Product Decisions , Product Management Foundations , Mastering Product Management , Data for Product Managers (new). Product Leadership. Harsh Sinha , CTO at Wise, formerly PayPal, Ebay. If you have any questions, please send them to hello@reforge.com.

CTO Coach

User Pilot

AUGUST 19, 2024

TL;DR This is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. Let’s get started!

Leadership

User Pilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

TL;DR A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company.

Leadership

User Pilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

TL;DR A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company. A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products within a company.

Leadership

User Pilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

TL;DR A head of product is a leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and management of a product or a portfolio of products, playing a crucial role in defining the product strategy, setting the product vision , and ensuring the successful execution of product initiatives. Let’s dive in!

Leadership

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? And then all of a sudden I remember last year the eBay announcement came out. Can you guys introduce us to this company? Where I want to go with that, I think that was a fascinating announcement.

Payment Methods

Sylvia Ng

MARCH 14, 2017

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.

Sales Recruiting

BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

Success is having leadership buy-in, lending authority to decisions that come from the security team. After that, we talked to their manager (leadership buy-in!). Figure 4 – Not a real Paypal email. I come into work empowered by leadership and enjoy working with my coworkers. What does success look like? End result.

Underperforming Technical Team

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

It still continues to gain acclaim for its growth, product, and leadership. No introduction would suffice for a giant that serves 200 million active users monthly. But additionally, growing a large base slows down in terms of percentage if the same growth in users is achieved. Finance & Accounting. Salesforce.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I mean I guess I would say one critical thing that we did early on was we got them to agree that we as a leadership team were the ones who are owning the whole sort of announce and offer process to that new company for our employees. We have a leadership center in New York City with these phenomenal sort of leaders and instructors.

Payment Services

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Again, to make it very simple, think about that just like a PayPal, but for the enterprise, for the Fortune 500 in the world. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. Finally, we have Apps, which is just like Force.com.

Payment Solutions

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Start-ups without a clear path to leadership in at least one significant (or several smaller) market(s) will find it harder to get funding. This might not sound like the most exciting time to be an investor, but many of the world’s best companies, like Google, PayPal, and Facebook, were started under very similar conditions.

Technical Review

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2025

Very innovative, but a mobile PayPal, etc. Yahoo, Altavista, whatever. Salesforce. Maybe not a fast follower, but already Siebel Sales.com , etc. Copied Xerox, Altair, everything. More a slow follower, but still. HubSpot, Marketo, etc. Neither invented the space. HubSpots original CRM was in many ways a clone of Pipedrive.

Cybersecurity

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2025

39:50 – How HubSpot addressed issues with remote leadership. Scott Barker: mafia, the infamous, uh, PayPal Rob Giglio: that’s a, I mean, those, that’s a group of very, very successful, um, leaders well beyond what I’m describing. Highlights: 06:07 – 3 lessons from B2C to that B2B marketing needs to learn.

Scale

FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

And, you know, you’d write into PayPal, nobody had ever sent you anything back or Digital River couldn’t get your account manager to respond. And we didn’t really have a leadership team that had scaled to where we wanted to go. And we had happened to be in an industry where the competition felt very much the opposite.

Payment Methods

Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Decreased internal resistance will result from fealty-based screening and fear-based leadership, making quick examples of those who step out of line. A surprising number hail from the PayPal mafia. Trump will face less resistance on both the internal front (i.e., intra-party, intra-staff) and external front (i.e. Democratic).

Technical Review