SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2023
Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. I know, because we were working on a game, we started our company in the beginning of 2009, and we completely missed the boat. I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. Jason : Got it.
SaaStr
JULY 2, 2024
In 2009, that spiked to 35%. 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. Situation Two If you go back and look, we’re nowhere near the highs after the internet bubble in 2002, when 53% of all rounds done were down rounds.
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SaaStr
MAY 15, 2019
He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009. PagerDuty was founded in 2009 and recently began trading on the NYSE under ticker symbol $PD this April, seeing a whopping 50% pop in the stock right at open. You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few.
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.
Neil Patel
FEBRUARY 6, 2021
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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.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual. We compete with Stripe and PayPal and Adyen and these are sort of very well funded, very sort of driven technology companies. Bill Clerico : And by the way, I think that’s so atypical in acquisitions.
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