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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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A mobile phone is their dominant source of managing business activities. When you get bigger, say 20 to 50 to 100 monthly transactions, you probably have an accounting person in BILL daily. That was probably 2012. Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. BILL network has 7.1M

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

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Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Ryan Smith Qualtrics Founder/CEO. In 2004 he became CEO of MarkLogic where he stayed until 2010.

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Avoid Trapdoor Decisions: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. I’m an execution person.

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Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

” The whole point of building a corporation, is not having personal liability attached to it. So, there’s all these people who are just using debit cards, and just walking around with debit cards with 120 000 in the bank, or just using their personal card for all these things. We know a lot about payments.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. David Schmaier: Sure.

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Small Business Will Drive the Next Billion for SaaS with Kabbage (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. They also don’t hang out online, there’s no congregation where a bunch of small businesses are that you can find them.

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PODCAST 127: Leadership Lessons From 10 Years of Democratizing Youth Sports w/ Brian Litvack

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend. Key lessons learned in 10 years of top leadership [12:23]. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Brian Litvack, the first person that ever hired me as a sales consultant and my fast friend.