SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You’ll need to hire aggressively to get to the next level and continue that rapid growth. But what roles should you hire for, and what will your org chart look like at each stage? 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.

CTO Hire 287

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 287

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-.

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

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-.

Merchant Services 222

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 222

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 6, 2020

Hiring has changed, big time. Old school recruiting is out, social recruiting is in. Many of my hires in the past have been through the network and hired out of opportunity, not necessarily need. Even more impressive, I could have probably happily hired about 30 of them. I haven’t had a resume in years.

Sales Hiring 87

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting PayPal Headcount 87

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When you thought of financial software, it was Mint, PayPal, and then like a few people hadn’t heard of, and that was it. But one of the things that we did was just try to really deeply understand the people that we were talking to, initially, instead of doing contracts and sales and accounts management and things like that.

Sales Hiring 93

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Banking Outsourced Development 93

Sylvia Ng

MARCH 14, 2017

It’s been 6 years since I left eBay, but I continue to be amazed by the group of colleagues that I had then, because many of them have gone on to hold leadership roles at great companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Shopify, Paypal, and LVMH. Participate in your company’s hiring process. So what do I tell the women? Define cool.

Sales Recruiting 75

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team PayPal 75

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. Finance & Accounting. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19