SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

For the most part, it has leveled out in the 8-10x forward revenue multiple range and is largely consistent with where things traded from 2008 to 2018. That doesn’t mean they were all great returns along the way, but if you got into Amazon, Yahoo, eBay, or PayPal, you did quite well.

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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

APRIL 16, 2023

Stewart : If we had started in 2008, your question before, we would not have taken off like this, for a number of other reasons. 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.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

From 2008-2012 Nick was CEO of LiveOffice which was acquired by Symantec for $115MM). You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few. Nick Mehta’s tenure in tech began as co-founder and VP of marketing for Chipshot.com which he founded in 1998.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

Over her career, she has established a proven track record of operationalizing strategy and developing award-winning products while in pivotal roles at leading companies including Intuit, Yahoo, PayPal, Adobe, Joyent, and Sun Microsystems. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

SaaStr 320: SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta on What It Was Like in 2008-2009 and What We Can Expect for 2020. David Sacks is best known as the Founder and CEO of Yammer or the product lead at Paypal. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. Apple, Square, PayPal, Revel, Erply and others have built portable, inexpensive touchscreen-based point-of-sale systems on by iPad and tablets that offer a better customer experience and a lower cost of ownership than the systems Micros and NCR can offer.

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