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 174

Software Review Systems Review Scale Startup 174

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 214

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 214

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 262

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 262

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 191

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

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 163

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 163

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 41

Technical Review Leadership PayPal Entertainment 41

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 133

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 133

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.

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 169

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 182

Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 182

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 40

Underperforming Technical Team Software Review DevOps as a Service Scale 40

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 115

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 115

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 142

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 142

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 40

Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

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 75

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team PayPal 75

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 132

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 132

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 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19