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60 of The Top Mentors at 2020 SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

Sari Harrison, Center for Humane Technology , Head of Product Outcomes. Sameera Rao, PayPal, Global Head of Consumer Engineering. Nitasha Walia, Zoom, Group Product Manager. Camille Ricketts, Notion HQ , Head of Marketing. Product Marketing Manager. Michael Galloway, Netflix , Senior Engineering Manager.

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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. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. billion in 2012.

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The Growth Mindset: An Overview of Key Growth Strategies and Tactics

OpenView Labs

In addition to the general misconceptions about what actually drives growth, I often find that companies misunderstand the big-picture context of product-market fit. Product-market fit is a term discussed all the time. Take PayPal and eBay.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. There’s actually more similarities to PayPal with Zenefits than there are to Yammer. It’s a more operationally intensive company the way that PayPal was. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.

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Product-led growth: AKA what you should be doing | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

Uber, Dropbox, and PayPal are some examples of this. She’s an expert in product-led growth as her agency is focused on helping SaaS companies implement and scale a product-led go-to-market plan. Is your company getting tons of new users through referrals? This indicates you’re providing real value.

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

SaaStr

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. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system. To me, that’s what the cadence says.

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