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

SaaStr

Because while the payment problem was solved, the marketing side of mobile commerce remained broken. Solve Hard Technical Problems Create multiple moats Patent protection Technical innovation Market leadership 2.

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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

SaaStr

While many are going more and more enterprise at scale (an important note), they still have large SMB customer sets. 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.

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

SaaStr

It’s about scale and revenue. At a high level, why are things scaling faster than ever from your perspective? Things are scaling faster. Yammer certainly scaled faster than I scaled back in the day with EchoSign or Aaron when he was here, but the pace of Slack. Jason : A lot has changed since then.

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Get Better PayPal Analytics with Baremetrics

Baremetrics

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. This article will cover PayPal’s metrics and reporting features, as well as how PayPal data can be better tracked in Baremetrics. Table of Contents.

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The Future of Blockchain Data : Our Investment in Allium

Tom Tunguz

Large scale ETL (extract, transform, load) processes are a critical part of any data pipeline. How does a web3 analyst or product manager or consumer make sense of data at scale? PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b In the world of blockchain, these processes are even more complex.

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The SaaS $100 Billion Club. It’s Getting Bigger.

SaaStr

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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Maybe 80% of Public SaaS Companies Are in the SF Bay Area

SaaStr

And finding veterans that have done it before really helps, especially as you scale. You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. That still helps you scale. . Like crazy expensive. And aren’t we all moving to distributed teams? Still, networks matter. And where are these networks and veterans?

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