SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

Now one really important note: I excluded Adobe and Paypal from the list, because they are just so old. But Adobe definitely counts in “Mixed”, and Paypal definitely counts as SMB. A lot of Enterprise. 71% of the revenue from SaaS public companies is from mainly enterprise players. 17% from mixed SML players.

SaaS Payments 346

SaaS Payments Scale SMB PayPal 346

Stax

JULY 18, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore PayPal’s Buy Now Pay Later service (PayPal Pay Later) and see how it benefits consumers and merchants alike. TL;DR PayPal Pay Later is PayPal’s BNPL program for online shopping with large retailers like Best Buy, Home Depot, Target, Apple, etc. Learn More What Is PayPal Buy Now Pay Later?

PayPal 88

PayPal Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services 88

IT World

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PayPal has become the latest technology company to announce wide-spread layoffs, with the company set to cut 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce.

PayPal 95

PayPal Technology Business 95

SaaStr

JUNE 9, 2021

They have sessions and roundtables with the VPEs and CTOs of Atlassian, Datadog, Gusto, Box, Coda, Safegraph, Headspace, Flatiron, Lyft, Superhuman, Netflix, PayPal and so much more! T he line-up and topics are simply incredible. It’s epic. Sign up here. Good times!

PayPal 303

PayPal Cloud Engineering 303

IT World

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PayPal has become the latest technology company to announce wide-spread layoffs, with the company set to cut 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce.

PayPal 88

PayPal Technology Business 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

And more are coming: Putting aside oldies like Adobe and PayPal, now Atlassian , Snowflake , Shopify , Square , ServiceNow and Salesforce (maybe an oldie) all are worth over $100 Billion. Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns ? Well maybe. There are now already 6 SaaS/Cloud leaders worth over $100 Billion dollars.

PayPal 289

PayPal SaaS Cloud Marketing 289

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2024

PayPal: Their Market Stayed the Same PayPal started as a payment encryption service, and now they’re a web-based payment processor. That’s an evolution of a strategy. They began with the ability to store large amounts of unstructured data in a narrow space, and calling it NoSQL attracted a certain class of people.

Payment Services 257

Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods PayPal 257

Chargebee

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Sure, PayPal is a secure system that people recognize, but are you really willing to hand over your hard-earned funds to a huge corporation just for name recognition?

PayPal 76

PayPal Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 76

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

PayPal paid their auditor Ernst & Young with stablecoins. PayPal’s stablecoin PYUSD has reached $750m in size. But, the use of stablecoins extends far beyond crypto trading. Stablecoins own more US Treasuries than South Korea & Germany & have become an important buyer of US goverment debt.

PayPal 201

PayPal AI 201

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A ways back we noted a great rant by David Marcus , now of Facebook, and previously President of PayPal. Complaining his employees weren’t using PayPal apps. But PayPal isn’t Google. Well — what did he expect? Yes, he was right. It’s not cool if your team doesn’t use your app every day.

VP of Engineering 223

VP of Engineering Customer Support PayPal Healthcare 223

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Amplitude, a leading provider of web analytics, filed their S-1 earlier this week. The company leverages novel storage techniques to scalably collect data on how users engage with mobile apps and web sites.

Metrics 294

Metrics Benchmarks PayPal Enterprise 294

SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2023

Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.

Payment Features 54

Payment Features Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 54

Chargebee

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over 24 million merchants use PayPal as their payment processor. PayPal can be confusing, and its customer support could be improved upon further. While PayPal may be popular, is it the best option available? PayPal is best suited for low-volume merchants. It’s fast, secure, and easy to use. You’re only […]

PayPal 75

PayPal Merchant Services Payment Services Customer Support 75

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

David Sacks made tens of millions at PayPal but had to do more. And sometimes it almost never ends. 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. But he still wanted to go bigger.

PayPal 297

PayPal Startup Management Leadership 297

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. There’s no reason you shouldn’t hire the brightest, most talented people.

Payment Features 258

Payment Features Payment Services Sales Hiring Payments 258

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.

Payment Features 254

Payment Features Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 254

Chargebee

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Major payment gateways like PayPal and Stripe offer robust solutions for companies of all sizes. PayPal is a great solution for new and small businesses. Collecting payment from customers needs to be a seamless process to ensure no cash-flow disruptions. But which one is right for your business?

PayPal 76

PayPal Payment Solutions Payment Services Business 76

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Outliers at the top end include Google Maps (44%), Paypal (47%), and Uber (50.5%.). For example, personal finance apps like PayPal (47%) and Revolut (35%) use a lot of text in their starting screens to display information about accounts, recent transactions, and activity. Personal finance: (PayPal, Revolut) 41.0%.

Mobile 291

Mobile PayPal Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 291

Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2024

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b BlackRock & Fidelity have launched tokenized Treasury products with nearly $1b in assets combined. Stripe now allows its merchants to accept payments in Ethereum, Solana, & Polygon without transaction fees. Understanding what data means across this universe isn’t easy.

Blockchain 243

Blockchain Merchant Services Payment Solutions Investment 243

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. That led to $556m in net revenue (a very small % of that $300 Billion). But what they did take, was very profitable. More than half went to the bottom line: $357 million — wow! Affirm: ~46% Gross Margins (probably lower). Marqeta: 40% Gross Margins.

SaaS Payments 313

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 313

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. You could add in Microsoft, Amazon and Google and it would plummet to 50/50. You could add in SAP and Oracle and it would go back up closer to 80/20. And more of the next-generation, from Canva on, is from outside the Bay Area. So what conclusions can we draw?

PayPal 236

PayPal SaaS Cloud Scaling 236

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2020

2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. This one always floats near the top. #2: One of the top sessions from New New in Venture. #3: 3: “12 Key Levers of SaaS Success with David Skok of Matrix Partners” A SaaStr Classic!

Scale 246

Scale PayPal Cloud Startup 246

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience. Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 259

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 259

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.

Payment Features 246

Payment Features SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 246

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. But after that, it’s tough. OK besides a blanket Don’t Ever Do Double Stretches Except in Year One, what’s another idea, SaaStr?

Sales Hiring 338

Sales Hiring Growth Hacking PayPal Startup 338

Stax

JUNE 8, 2025

Shopify Payments, PayPal, Stripe) Often provided by banks or payment service providers (e.g., Hosted payment gateways (or redirects) – In this method, customers are redirected to a third-party site for checkout and payment processing e.g. PayPal.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal. With PayPal, You’re Not Automatically Sales Tax and VAT Compliant The biggest issue was tax compliance. The problem?

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

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 281

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 281

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Used “dollar airdrops” PayPal deposited $10 into each new user’s account when registering in their first growth phase. There’s much more in the analysis that’s worth reading. Marketers bet loss-leader campaigns like airdrops generate more revenue than the cost of the campaign.

Blockchain 218

Blockchain PayPal Startup Pricing 218

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Several tools and apps offer this feature, including PayPal with their Pay in 4 option. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments. Familiar options like PayPal may increase consumer trust, which may increase sales.

Payment Methods 140

Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services PayPal 140

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Which database did PayPal use to enable internet payments? This section in Read Write Own , Chris Dixon’s book, has been bouncing in my brain for the last few weeks. Very few people know whether today’s apps are built with, just as they don’t consider the construction materials of their office building. Nobody knows.

Blockchain 208

Blockchain Payment Solutions Payment Methods Mobile Payments 208

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Enough not to churn. In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Hubspot sells to SMBs and just passed $1B in ARR.

Business Model 290

Business Model Scale Business PayPal 290

Neil Patel

AUGUST 30, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. This is why offering BNPL options, like PayPal’s enterprise BNPL , is crucial for attracting the Gen Z market. Trust also impacts what payment methods Gen Z’ers are willing to use, and PayPal offers a considerable competitive advantage. Offer Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Payment Options.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods PayPal Social Media Advertising 145

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 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

By contrast, only 12% of online purchasers in Germany stated that a debit or credit card was their preferred payment method, with customers opting for alternatives such as invoices or PayPal. The importance of understanding local preferences but also offering a range of currency options for SaaS payments in a secure manner is vital.

SaaS Payments 232

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 232

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2020

This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. #1: “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” With David Sacks. A classic already. Watch it. #2:

Scale 220

Scale PayPal Investment Scaling 220

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

PayPal has continued to skyrocket, and then, of course, Zoom replacing ServiceNow in the top five from 2020, as Zoom meetings, Zoom backgrounds, and for all of us, even a little Zoom fatigue is becoming a necessary and important element of our every day.

Cloud 276

Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 276