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Why We Founded SaaSGrid
Talks about SaaSGrid, SaaS metrics and real-time dashboards
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David Sacks
Producer at Producers Guild of America
San Francisco, California
Overview
David Sacks is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor based in San Francisco, California, currently serving as the Founder/Partner at Craft Ventures. With a background as the Founder/CEO of Yammer, Inc. and as the COO/Head of Product at PayPal, he has successfully invested in various companies such as Replit and Vendr, focusing on sectors like Sales & CRM, Consumer Internet, and SaaS in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
Founder/Partner
2017 - Current
Craft Ventures is a VC firm dedicated to the craft of building great companies. We are founders who back founders. Our focus is on SaaS and Marketplace models.
Craft Ventures is an early-stage and growth fund with proven, repeated success building and scaling SaaS businesses.
Producer
2005
Produced THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, starring Aaron Eckhart, Robert Duvall, Katie Holmes, and William H. Macy. Nominated for Best Picture at the 2006 Golden Globes. Produced DALI LAND, starring Sir Ben Kingley as Salvador Dali, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
The Producer's Guild of America is a non profit that protects the interests of producers of TV, movies, and new media.
Founder/CEO
2008 - 2014
Yammer, the first Enterprise Social Network, pioneered bottom-up SaaS by adapting consumer tactics for enterprise sales. It was acquired by Microsoft in July 2012 for $1.2 billion as a core part of its cloud/social strategy.
Yammer is an enterprise social network that enables employees to collaborate across departments, geographies and business applications.
Raised $142,000,000.00 from Max Levchin, Emergence, Social Capital, Khosla Ventures, DFJ Growth, U.S. Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tuesday Capital, Ronnie Lott and Capricorn Partners.
COO / Head of Product
1999 - 2002
"PayPal Mafia"
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
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What is Bottom Up SaaS?
Talks about bottom-up SaaS, go-to-market strategy and Product-Led Growth
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The Difficulty Ratio
Talks about SaaS business models, enterprise customers and SMBs
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The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups
Talks about Jigsaw and give-to-get model, AI startups and proprietary datasets