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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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Sales Hiring 273

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.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

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.

Sales Hiring 210

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 210

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

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By 2009, unemployment for ‘08 graduates was at 9% : The door to the real world had slammed shut just as we were about to walk through it. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

Sales Hiring 106

Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service Payment Services Banking 106

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.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

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.

Payment Services 182

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182