SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Both offered consumers a ton of convenience through their service.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch. It may seem like a simple decision, but there is a lot of complexity in a two-sided marketplace where people are expecting to get paid. The marketplace was doing well. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. This was a terrifying thing to take on. It was healthy.

Scale 154

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. There’s more of a habit, whereas the drivers are always comparing their earnings with Uber to other opportunities like picking up a part-time job within the services industry. Here’s Rachel.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. Again, that’s something I would have thought in 2014 was happening imminently. But it exists now.

Scale 143

Scale Banking Technical Review Systems Review 143

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Hayden Stafford is the President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Seismic, where he oversees the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, including pre-sales, sales, customer success, services, partners, and more. I love the guy.

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Scale VP of Engineering Outsourcing Services Enterprise 63

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Ceci Stallsmith: Yeah, I’d say at Slack it was quite easy to convince because a lot of people think some of our very early days, like 2014 growth, was due in part to integrations, so because we were seeing so much pickup of them it was very obvious, like we needed people to be able to build more integrations on us.

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