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Stax Connect ISVs: Unlock PayPal, Venmo, and BNPL for Your Merchants

Stax

In line with that, we’re thrilled to announce that Stax Connect ISVs can now give merchants the ability to accept PayPal, Venmo, and Pay Later (BNPL). Talk to sales Why Enable PayPal for Your Merchants? Adding PayPal to your list of accepted payment methods opens up a range of benefits for you and your merchants alike.

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The 20 Trending VC Sessions at 2020 SaaStr Annual!!

SaaStr

It’s still early — the 2020 SaaStrAnnual.com isn’t until March 10-11-12 in the SF Bay Area — but we can already start seeing some of the hottest VC sessions at Annual. The Next Iteration of “Software is Eating the World” 2020 with Atrium and Andreessen Horowitz. There will be almost 1,000 (!)

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Benchmarking Amplitude's S-1: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. The 2020 sales efficiency is 0.54. Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -.

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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

SaaStr

So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. And indeed, sometimes it can be.

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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

PayPal has continued to skyrocket, and then, of course, Zoom replacing ServiceNow in the top five from 2020, as Zoom meetings, Zoom backgrounds, and for all of us, even a little Zoom fatigue is becoming a necessary and important element of our every day. First up is the incredible growth in cloud multiples.

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The Uniswap Token Launch : Tokens as CAC Part II

Tom Tunguz

Some background on the UNI airdrop: To be eligible, users must have transacted on Uniswap before September 1, 2020. Used “dollar airdrops” PayPal deposited $10 into each new user’s account when registering in their first growth phase. Recently, Dune Analytics published an analysis of the Uniswap UNI token airdrop.

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

SaaStr

— Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 4, 2020. Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. Being the top rep at a SaaS company, as an IC, is a great and even necessary start. But it does not remotely prepare you to be a VP of Sales on its own. But after that, it’s tough.