2009 Leadership Payment Methods 
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 31, 2019
The ultimate failure of Siri to dominate the AI personal assistant game might come to be seen as its biggest miss of the decade. Facebook and Twitter, meanwhile, struggled under the unavoidable pressure of hosting half a globe’s worth of daily online communication.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online. They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. It’s 2009, and the Obama Inauguration is happening in town. All other products that came before Airbnb didn’t process payments.
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SaaStr
AUGUST 7, 2020
We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank.
SaaStr
JUNE 16, 2020
And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. We have all this data online, if you want to see more results from the survey. It stands for vision, values, methods, obstacles and measures.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2019
WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.
Intercom, Inc.
MARCH 22, 2018
Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. There are trade-offs between the two, and clearly their method won out. There was one other person inside the company already digging into this lever, so we connected and really hit it off. We raised a $1.5-million
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? I can help you accelerate your payment.
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