Daniel Saks

CEO

United States16 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Raised over $500M in capital.
  • Co-founded leading subscription commerce platform.
  • Named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in AI-driven go-to-market strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategySales

Other Skills

Agentic AIMarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)SaaSStart-upsCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareStrategic PartnershipsEntrepreneurship

About

🚀 SaaS unicorn & centaur founder now helping the next wave of AI unicorns solve the #1 challenge I faced: GROWTH. At Landbase.com, we launch sales & marketing campaigns in minutes, not months—turning go-to-market from a slow, linear grind into AI-powered exponential growth. Try it for free today at landbase.com Landbase is on a mission to help businesses transform their go-to-market by harnessing machine intelligence & human performance. My entrepreneurial journey has spanned 15 years, raising over half a billion in capital and creating billions in equity value. Before Landbase, I co-founded AppDirect, the leading subscription commerce platform for selling technology services. AppDirect is now the leading B2B commerce company for selling technology and is a team of 1200+ strong, serving F500 brands including Comcast, AT&T, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google and reaching millions of business users around the globe. I've had the honor of being named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the most exceptional entrepreneurs. I also enjoy sharing my experiences and insights at industry conferences like Web Summit, CogX, CeBIT, and MWC, and I regularly advise Fortune 500 executives on software distribution and cloud strategies. I post about: • Scaling from zero to unicorn • GTM & sales leadership • AI in sales and marketing teams Let’s connect if you’re building something big. More about me: danielsaks.ai Personal interests: Avid skier, and love to get out in nature for hikes, rides, and runs with my wife and two little kids. Follow me to get insights on into technology, business strategy, and entrepreneurship.

Experience

Appdirect

4 roles

Co-Founder & Board Member

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

President & Co-Founder

Promoted

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Host - Decoding Digital Podcast

Sep 2020 – Oct 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • I am the host of a new podcast, Decoding Digital, coming this September. On the podcast, I interview founders, experts, and innovators who “decode” topics ranging from venture capital, to entrepreneurship, to cloud business models, to digital transformation, and more—all with the aim of helping business leaders navigate the digital world.

President & Co-CEO

Jun 2009 – Feb 2022 · 12 yrs 8 mos

  • AppDirect provides the only end-to-end cloud commerce platform for succeeding in the digital economy. The AppDirect ecosystem connects channels, developers, and customers through its platform to simplify the digital supply chain by enabling the onboarding and sale of products with third-party services, for any channel, on any device, with support. Powering millions of cloud subscriptions worldwide, AppDirect helps organizations, including Jaguar Land Rover, Comcast, ADP, Deutsche Telekom, connect their customers to the solutions they need to reach their full potential in the digital economy. AppDirect is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices around the globe and works across vertical industries, including software, manufacturing, value-added resellers and financial services. J.P. Morgan, Foundry Group, iNovia Capital, StarVest Partners, Stingray Digital and Mithril Capital Management have invested in AppDirect.

Landbase

CEO & Co-Founder

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • CEO and Founder of Landbase, the agentic AI platform for go-to-market
  • Building the world’s first domain-specific AI model for GTM: GTM-1 Omni
  • Raised $42.5M from top-tier investors including 8VC, A, Sound Ventures, Picus Capital, First Minute Capital, General Catalyst, and iNovia
  • Pioneering VibeGTM — a new interface to launch sales & marketing campaigns by chatting with AI.
  • Helping B2B companies replace bloated GTM stacks with autonomous, high-converting workflows across outbound & inbound
  • Trusted by startups, agencies, and enterprise teams to increase conversion, reduce costs, and reclaim their day
  • On a mission to make software work for you — not the other way around
Agentic AIGo-to-Market StrategySalesMarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Forbes technology council

Contributor

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/people/danielsaks/

8vc

Advisor

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Education

McGill University

BA — Political Science

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

Harvard University

Master of Liberal Arts in Management — Finance and Accounting

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

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