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. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. billion in 2012.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

The company started back in 2007, 2008. I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. So we’re into our second decade. As I was introduced, we have 17,000 customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So the first product we launched had an integration with PayPal that made it very easy for the event organizers to get all their ticket sales directly into their PayPal account as they were happening in real time. One thing we understood very quickly was that access to money for organizing an event is quite critical.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. It still continues to gain acclaim for its growth, product, and leadership. SAP has grown two streams of revenue: cloud and software revenue, and services revenue. With this, it is expected to grow by 5% annually. Engineering.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

I mean I guess I would say one critical thing that we did early on was we got them to agree that we as a leadership team were the ones who are owning the whole sort of announce and offer process to that new company for our employees. We have a leadership center in New York City with these phenomenal sort of leaders and instructors.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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