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David Sacks
Personal blog · sacks.substack.comstartupsbusiness
David Sacks's personal blog at sacks.substack.com covers startups and business. Since 2020, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Startup Is a Movement”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Sacks' Substack for startup and tech-company topics, such as the burn multiple metric and the SaaS org chart and tech staffing.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Explains the burn multiple metric; one commenter tells readers who don't know the term to read it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Playbooks for building software companies. Click to read Bottom Up by David Sacks, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Startup Is a Movement5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- The SaaS Org Chart4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-23
- The Dark Side of Sales3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-05
- Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-08
- The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-30
- The SaaS Metrics That Matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-18
- The Burn Multiple2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-07
What Hacker News says?
Related tech staffing thoughts of someone now directly involved: https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-org-chart
Comment linking /p/the-saas-org-chart
on “Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work”Submitted The SaaS Org Chart as a story · 385 points
HN discussionLess than a 2x burn multiple. If you don’t know what a burn multiple is, read this → https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-burn-multiple-51a7e43cb200?...
Comment linking /p/the-burn-multiple-51a7e43cb200?s=r
on “Bolt announces layoffs”Submitted Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team as a story · 177 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SaaS Metrics That Matter as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SaaS Org Chart as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SaaS Board Meeting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Is a Movement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Is a Movement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Side of Sales as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Side of Sales as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Startup Is a Movement (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Startup Is a Movement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Is a Movement: How Founders Should Think About Marketing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pipeline Metrics That Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Dark Side of Sales as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Bottom Up SaaS? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Difficulty Ratio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SaaS Org Chart (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Burn Multiple – How Startups Should Think About Capital Efficiency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Burn Multiple as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The SaaS Metrics That Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The One Who Defines the Category Wins the Category as a story · 1 points
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