SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

Equality and Unicorns in 2020: Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Jason Lemkin of SaaStr. We’re going to do something a little different here, and both catch up on the state of Equality in Venture Capital and Cloud, and also revisit Aileen’s classic pieces in TechCrunch that kicked off the age of the Unicorn.

Trends 209

Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 209

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 an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the venture capital?

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 171

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

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Technical Review Marketplace as a Service Software Review Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the ventured capital? Does venture capital even need to bother?

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Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 149

Point Nine Land

MAY 6, 2019

PayPal, Dropbox, Typeform and Loom have been very successful in launching incentivized referral programs, for example, where users who referred other users would get additional features for free. Also, try to avoid running multiple experiments at the same time, you’ll likely not be able to disentangle different impacts on the overall target.

SaaS 73

SaaS Scale Acquisition PayPal 73

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. Paypal took a 10 billion haircut in market value and all of a sudden my LinkedIn, email, phone, Adyen, what is this? It’s very inspiring for me. I also want to break a lot of the stigma. Can you guys introduce us to this company?

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 134

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. The way you talked to your customers was by exporting your PayPal dashboard because everyone used PayPal for subscription back then.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209