Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Build, communicate, and execute a cohesive product strategy across feature, growth, scaling and innovation product work. If you’re unfamiliar with Reforge, it’s the world’s leading career development platform for top-tier tech talent. Product Leadership. Scaling Product Delivery. Apply To Join Reforge.

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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. Look at Model T sales or something. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups. billion dollars.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. The first system is what I call the sales finance system.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 9, 2019

Success is having leadership buy-in, lending authority to decisions that come from the security team. People really took to the gamified nature of it, especially the sales department. After that, we talked to their manager (leadership buy-in!). Figure 4 – Not a real Paypal email. What does success look like?

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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-.

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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!

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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 193

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 193

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!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Let’s start with the first one, which I think really is to prepare your core product for scale. The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. Let’s start with our five key steps. Romain Huet : Right.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most of you who ever have done enterprise sales, you know enterprise sales are spreadsheet-driven. Again, to make it very simple, think about that just like a PayPal, but for the enterprise, for the Fortune 500 in the world. It’s roughly twice of the best practice standard for most large scale enterprise SaaS companies.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? That’s been a major focus. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

Hear from Roger Scott, New Relic’s EVP and Chief Customer Officer as he shares his 7 tips and tricks for keeping your customers happy— and how to do so at a large scale. And I wanted to share a little bit of my experience and the company’s experiences of building the company to a scale that we are today. Good afternoon.

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