David Sacks
Producer at Producers Guild of America
David Sacks
Producer at Producers Guild of America
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.
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.
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.
COO / Head of Product
1999 - 2002
"PayPal Mafia"
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
Why We Founded SaaSGrid
Talks about SaaSGrid, SaaS metrics and real-time dashboards
What is Bottom Up SaaS?
Talks about bottom-up SaaS, go-to-market strategy and Product-Led Growth
The Difficulty Ratio
Talks about SaaS business models, enterprise customers and SMBs
The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups
Talks about Jigsaw and give-to-get model, AI startups and proprietary datasets