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. It certainly has its limitations, but I generally like it as strategy. Jason : In your gut, you can agree, David.

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Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 363

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.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 173

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. For Rachel Hepworth, VP of Marketing at Pilot, it was a critical tactic that helped her accelerate Slack’s rise to market dominance and a cornerstone of Pilot’s go-to-market strategy today.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A+ commitment to a D+ strategy. PLG is a good strategy for certain categories, but VCs have a tendency, with all good intentions, to ram strategies down the throats of portfolio companies. The Crux becomes strategy book of the year. It frames strategy around the plan to overcome a critical strategic challenge.

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Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 130

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.

Payment Solutions 179

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 179

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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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Mobile credit card processing first came on the scene when Square released its original mobile credit card reader in 2009 and by the early 2010s, it had become a common method of accepting payments for small businesses. Popular mobile payment solutions include Square, PayPal Here, and Shopify POS. And with that, you’re up and running.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 88