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The Cadence: How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army with David Sacks (Video + Transcript)

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So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

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SaaStr Podcast #349 with Craft Ventures General Partner David Sacks: “How to Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army”

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349: Startups can get messy. David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. And, wouldn’t it be nice if somehow we could turn this s**t show into an army where instead of having this startup chaos, we could get the team working in lock step. Especially in growth. How do we solve this?

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Thanks to Demandwell, Rattle, Panther, Chargebee, and Globalization Partners for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual!

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Panther helps remote startups hire anyone, anywhere, in just a click. They handle global payroll, taxes, compliance, and benefits — so startups can focus on work that matters. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc.

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What is a Successful Pivot in SaaS with Skyflow’s CEO Anshu Sharma

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PayPal: Their Market Stayed the Same PayPal started as a payment encryption service, and now they’re a web-based payment processor. If you have an early-stage startup with 15 different ideas, you’re not pivoting. That’s an evolution of a strategy. They kept the customer the same and pivoted the strategy. But that’s not a pivot.

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Dear SaaStr: I Sold My Company And Made Real Money, But I Still Feel Like A Loser. What Should I Do?

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Dear SaaStr: I sold my company five years ago and have built a net worth of ~$10 million, but compared to my friends I feel like a loser and still keep trying hard at startups that stress me out and make me miserable. David Sacks made tens of millions at PayPal but had to do more. What should I do? And sometimes it almost never ends.

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Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Craft Ventures, Microsoft, David Skok, Jyoti Bansal, Salesloft, Zoom, and More!!

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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. 4: “Brand Demand: Creating Clarity and Driving Growth Amidst Uncertainty with Microsoft for Startups” We don’t think enough about brand. It’s enduring. #5:

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The Double-Stretch Hire Rarely Works Out

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. …. or (y) do you pick someone that has the Perfect LinkedIn, and has seemingly done it all, a proven VP of Sales to do it once again (again, seemingly), at your startup? Not until you are Uipath, or Canva, or Algolia, or whatever the next super hot startup is. Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role.