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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2. Solve Hard Technical Problems Create multiple moats Patent protection Technical innovation Market leadership 2.

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The Future of Blockchain Data : Our Investment in Allium

Tom Tunguz

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b We are excited to support Allium on this journey and look forward to the innovations they will drive in the blockchain space. BlackRock & Fidelity have launched tokenized Treasury products with nearly $1b in assets combined. In the future, every software will have a web3 component.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. 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.

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Incremental Innovation is Just As Powerful as Disruption

Tom Tunguz

Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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Best PayPal Alternative Services: Online Payment Methods & Options

FastSpring

For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally acceptable. But if you’re solely depending on PayPal, you could be leaving money on the table. Check out our list of the best Paypal alternatives that you need to have on your site today! PayPal, why it works.

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PayPal for Enterprise: Building Solutions Across the Funnel

Neil Patel

Article sponsored by PayPal. When we talk about leaders in the contactless payments space, we must talk about PayPal. With a user share of 82%, PayPal is the most used online payment service in the U.S. Let’s dig into why this is important and how PayPal enterprise solutions can help. I’m not the only one who thinks this.

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Nobody Knows : Steel & Blockchains

Tom Tunguz

Which database did PayPal use to enable internet payments? The pace of innovation is hard to overstate. This section in Read Write Own , Chris Dixon’s book, has been bouncing in my brain for the last few weeks. Nobody knows. 1 Venmo surged with social & mobile payments in the 2010s. Which database did they use? Nobody knows.