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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. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). billion in 2012.

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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

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Once we got to about 15 or so connections, we then started having very serious conversations with Venmo, and that was the first kind of big customer that ended up really scaling with us. When you thought of financial software, it was Mint, PayPal, and then like a few people hadn’t heard of, and that was it.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

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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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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

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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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

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and Robert Vis of MessageBird will walk through lessons learned to survive hypergrowth and what will make a difference when it comes to scaling. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.