E1084: David Sacks on “The Cadence”: an operating philosophy he developed at PayPal which helped him lead Yammer to a billion-dollar exit without a COO

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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David Sacks’ recent Medium post: https://medium.com/craft-ventures/the-cadence-how-to-operate-a-saas-startup-436aa8099e8

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0:54.4	building startup companies and here in Silicon Valley there are two individuals
0:59.7	who are considered really three who are considered the greatest operators of all time.
1:05.0	One would be Cheryl Sandberg from Google, Fame, and also Facebook.
1:11.0	You got Keith Reboy, gets a lot of credit for Square and some other
1:15.2	companies that he's co-founded and operated within. And of course there's David Sachs,
1:20.7	who was the CEO of PayPal, created Yammer, which was the quickest SAS billion dollar
1:27.8	unicorn sale ever going from zero to over 50 million in revenues at about four years.
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1:34.0	You know him.
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