The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO
SaaStr
JANUARY 26, 2025
Because while the payment problem was solved, the marketing side of mobile commerce remained broken.
Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs
SaaStr
AUGUST 29, 2022
Now one really important note: I excluded Adobe and Paypal from the list, because they are just so old. But Adobe definitely counts in “Mixed”, and Paypal definitely counts as SMB. A lot of Enterprise. 71% of the revenue from SaaS public companies is from mainly enterprise players. 17% from mixed SML players.
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TOMORROW! Learn from the VPEs of Box, Datadog, Coda, Gusto, Atlassian and More!!
SaaStr
JUNE 9, 2021
They have sessions and roundtables with the VPEs and CTOs of Atlassian, Datadog, Gusto, Box, Coda, Safegraph, Headspace, Flatiron, Lyft, Superhuman, Netflix, PayPal and so much more! T he line-up and topics are simply incredible. It’s epic. Sign up here. Good times!
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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR
SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2023
I met you probably before that, you come out of PayPal and all this, and it’s a change. There’s actually more similarities to PayPal with Zenefits than there are to Yammer. It’s a more operationally intensive company the way that PayPal was. The transactions are a little bit more like PayPal.
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The SaaS $100 Billion Club. It’s Getting Bigger.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
And more are coming: Putting aside oldies like Adobe and PayPal, now Atlassian , Snowflake , Shopify , Square , ServiceNow and Salesforce (maybe an oldie) all are worth over $100 Billion. Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns ? Well maybe. There are now already 6 SaaS/Cloud leaders worth over $100 Billion dollars.
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What is a Successful Pivot in SaaS with Skyflow’s CEO Anshu Sharma
SaaStr
JULY 15, 2024
PayPal: Their Market Stayed the Same PayPal started as a payment encryption service, and now they’re a web-based payment processor. That’s an evolution of a strategy. They began with the ability to store large amounts of unstructured data in a narrow space, and calling it NoSQL attracted a certain class of people.
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Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support. At Least Until You Have 50-100 Employees. But Ideally, Forever.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
A ways back we noted a great rant by David Marcus , now of Facebook, and previously President of PayPal. Complaining his employees weren’t using PayPal apps. But PayPal isn’t Google. Well — what did he expect? Yes, he was right. It’s not cool if your team doesn’t use your app every day.
Thanks to Chargebee, Deel, Lark, and Vanta for Sponsoring SaaStr APAC 2023!
SaaStr
JANUARY 12, 2023
Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.
Dear SaaStr: I Sold My Company And Made Real Money, But I Still Feel Like A Loser. What Should I Do?
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
David Sacks made tens of millions at PayPal but had to do more. And sometimes it almost never ends. Dave Duffield made $10 billion when Oracle took over Peoplesoft … but he still had to go and co-found Workday. So he founded Yammer and sold it for $1B+ cash. And he made millions as an angel investor. But he still wanted to go bigger.
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Thanks to Chargebee, Merge, and Zomentum for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.
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Thanks to Demandwell, Rattle, Panther, Chargebee, and Globalization Partners for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual!
SaaStr
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations. There’s no reason you shouldn’t hire the brightest, most talented people.
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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.
SaaStr
AUGUST 11, 2022
Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. That led to $556m in net revenue (a very small % of that $300 Billion). But what they did take, was very profitable. More than half went to the bottom line: $357 million — wow! Affirm: ~46% Gross Margins (probably lower). Marqeta: 40% Gross Margins.
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Maybe 80% of Public SaaS Companies Are in the SF Bay Area
SaaStr
OCTOBER 21, 2019
You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. You could add in Microsoft, Amazon and Google and it would plummet to 50/50. You could add in SAP and Oracle and it would go back up closer to 80/20. And more of the next-generation, from Canva on, is from outside the Bay Area. So what conclusions can we draw?
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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!
SaaStr
JULY 19, 2022
Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience. Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation.
Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Craft Ventures, Microsoft, David Skok, Jyoti Bansal, Salesloft, Zoom, and More!!
SaaStr
JUNE 21, 2020
2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. This one always floats near the top. #2: One of the top sessions from New New in Venture. #3: 3: “12 Key Levers of SaaS Success with David Skok of Matrix Partners” A SaaStr Classic!
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Thanks to Chargebee, CommandBar, Greenhouse, Leaseweb, and Navan (formerly TripActions) for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!
SaaStr
MARCH 23, 2023
Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Chargebee is a recurring billing and subscription management tool that helps SaaS and SaaS-like businesses streamline Revenue Operations.
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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out
SaaStr
APRIL 12, 2021
Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. But after that, it’s tough. OK besides a blanket Don’t Ever Do Double Stretches Except in Year One, what’s another idea, SaaStr?
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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Subscribe Please do not fill in this field. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in 2012.
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Freemium is Back! But You’ll Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Enough not to churn. In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Hubspot sells to SMBs and just passed $1B in ARR.
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Basic Eligibility for Paypal working capital
SaaS Metrics
JANUARY 31, 2022
Speed of application and eligibility When you meet some basic requirements, you may qualify for a PayPal Working Capital loan. A PayPal Business account must be less than 3 months old and must generate $15,000 in sales per year or a Premier PayPal account must generate $20,000 per year. None of the.
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Quicken vs QuickBooks: Which is Best for Small Businesses?
Stax
OCTOBER 13, 2024
There are also free training courses and a QuickBooks blog. Quicken vs QuickBooks: Integrations QuickBooks supports an extensive list of integrations, while Quicken only offers a handful of integrations that simply let users receive and make online payments. Phone Support Phone support is available Monday through Friday between 6am to 6pm.
Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)
SaaStr
JUNE 11, 2019
Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.
6 Payment Acceptance Obstacles SaaS Companies Face and How to Avoid Them
SaaStr
JUNE 7, 2019
By contrast, only 12% of online purchasers in Germany stated that a debit or credit card was their preferred payment method, with customers opting for alternatives such as invoices or PayPal. The importance of understanding local preferences but also offering a range of currency options for SaaS payments in a secure manner is vital.
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10 Tips for Solo Attendees at SaaStr Annual
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
These are larger roundtables with top executives from top tech leaders from Box, Adobe, Zoom, VMWare, Coursera, Paypal, Zendesk, Proofpoint, Segment, Quizlet, Tile and more and are highly rated. Tip #6: Go to the Plato Sessions on Wednesday for Product and Engineering Mentorship. You automatically meet new great folks here.
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Unscalable hacks
The Angel VC
JANUARY 11, 2013
Recently I stumbled on the term "unscalable hack", in a blog post by Chris Dixon. Here are some examples of unscalable hacks that I'm aware of: In the early days of PayPal, PayPal reportedly listed lots of products on eBay and made PayPal the only accepted payment option for these products.
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SaaStr Podcast 436: The State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners
SaaStr
MARCH 19, 2021
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.
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The Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Flexport, Craft Ventures, Aileen Lee, Homebrew, and More
SaaStr
MAY 30, 2020
This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. #1: “The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” With David Sacks. A classic already. Watch it. #2:
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What’s Really Happening in Venture Capital Today with Redpoint Ventures Managing Director Logan Bartlett
SaaStr
JULY 2, 2024
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. Market Cycles Tend to Repeat Themselves If you go back to the internet bubble, a number of companies created a significant amount of equity value during that period.
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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)
SaaStr
AUGUST 12, 2020
First, I was the founder or CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self-taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. Okay, so the crazy thing is that when I was doing PayPal and Yammer we really just used Excel. To me, that’s what the cadence says.
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How to Set up The Amazon Associates Affiliate Program to Earn Website Revenue
Neil Patel
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
Amazon Associates Program Doesn’t Support PayPal Payments. Many creators use PayPal for sending and receiving money. Unfortunately, the Amazon Associates Affiliate program doesn’t send out money via PayPal. This alienates a large user base who depend on PayPal to obtain foreign currency in their local accounts.
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The 20 Trending VC Sessions at 2020 SaaStr Annual!!
SaaStr
JANUARY 25, 2020
CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures. The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks. If you follow David Sacks, you know he is one of the top thinkers in SaaS and Cloud. Here’s here to share how to really get it done.
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ClickFunnels Payment Gateways
Subscription Flow
MARCH 1, 2024
Keeping all of this in mind, in this blog we will first be talking about what is ClickFunnels, how exactly does it work, what are some of the best payment gateway for ClickFunnels, and lastly how does it integrate with SubscriptionFlow and how does the integration work. PayPal imposes operational charges at 2.9
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UXPin Uses Baremetrics to Track SaaS Metrics and Financial Growth
Baremetrics
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Industry leaders like Johnson & Johnson, PayPal, and Amazon rely on UXPin to streamline and accelerate their design processes. At that time, they used both PayLane and PayPal to process payments. Within a few years, UXPin moved to the United States and was able to migrate Poland-based subscriber data from PayLane, but not PayPal.
Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know
Payrix
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. eCheck, PayPal, etc.) Do you find yourself listening to industry leaders and colleagues use terms like PayFac, PCI DSS, and tokenization and casually scratching your head in confusion? Youve come to the right place.
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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)
SaaStr
JUNE 23, 2019
Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.
The Top Cloud Stories of the Week: 326 Unicorns, Microsoft??Android, Signs Your VP Can’t Scale, Change at SAP
SaaStr
OCTOBER 13, 2019
PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency. . $1B+ Market Map: The World’s 326 Unicorn Companies In One Infogra phic. views · 25 upvotes. 6 Key Signs a VP Can’t Scale Beyond $5m-$10m ARR. views · 7 upvotes. Microsoft’s embrace of Google’s Android software is bigger than its new phone. views · 6 upvotes.
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22 Reasons to Come to 2022 SaaStr Annual Sep 13-15!! From Duke Dumont to Mailchimp, from YCombinator to Atlassian, And So Much More!
SaaStr
JULY 2, 2022
These are roundtables with top executives from top tech leaders from Box, Adobe, Zoom, VMWare, Coursera, Paypal, Zendesk, Proofpoint, Segment, and more and are highly rated. They’re a lot of fun and all part of our journey to make sure everyone makes as many connections as possible! #18. You automatically meet new great folks here. #19.
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Chargebee vs. Recurly: Which one fits your business?
Baremetrics
MARCH 30, 2021
Some of the most notable in Chargebee are Shopify, Chargify, Braintree, Stripe, PayPal, Zuora, ShipStation, Refersion, and Google analytics. From these notable descriptions, you can establish that Chargebee is integrated with several payments and billing platforms, the most famous being Stripe and PayPal.
Internal Links Boost Page Performance
Neil Patel
APRIL 10, 2023
What Our Data Tells Us About Internal Link Optimization In our efforts to determine if top-linked blog posts correspond with top-performing organic URLs, we used the SEO website crawler Screaming Frog and SERP ranking platform Semrush. In particular, those comparing money transfer platforms like Cash App, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Zelle.
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Global Payment Methods for SMEs in 2024: An All-Inclusive Guide
Subscription Flow
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
We will also be complicating the blog by adding region-specific details so that both larger enterprises and smaller businesses are able to see which region-specific payment options are available to them in the most important regions of North America, Africa, and the European Union.
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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020
SaaStr
JANUARY 7, 2021
David Sacks is best known as the Founder and CEO of Yammer or the product lead at Paypal. SaaStr 349: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup Into an Army with David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures. His experience scaling unicorns from the ground up is insurmountable, especially when it comes to turning employees into growth accelerators.
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Top 22 Full Stack Developers to Follow in 2022
Frontegg
DECEMBER 14, 2021
His Simple Programmer blog, a place that’s already frequented by thousands of developers, is a mandatory bookmark. #2 Author of a JavaScript book and blog about web development, Addy Osmani is a software development buff. You can also find his detailed articles and guide on his blog – AddyOsmani.com. #4 4 Dan Abramov.
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10 types of payment fraud and how software companies can stay vigilant
Payrix
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Throughout this blog, we delve into what payment fraud is, the most prevalent types of fraud, and introduce payment fraud detection and prevention through the lens of a software company embedding payments into their core product offering.
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Even More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Unveiled!
SaaStr
MAY 15, 2019
You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few. The company boasts over 10,000 organizations and 350,000 paid users on it’s SaaS incident response platform for IT.
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