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AI Spending Patterns : It's Not What You Think

Tom Tunguz

Ramp published its quarterly spending trends & revealed how businesses are spending on AI. There are many great data points that underscore the growth in AI but there are important nuances in the patterns. First, AI growth rates across the most popular vendors have fallen 78% annually.

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7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention

Andreessen Horowitz

For consumer products, the rubber hits the road at retention. Great retention is a natural result of delivering the core product value to users, which of course varies by product. Can these “retention boosters” apply to them? Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention.

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6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners

SaaStr

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Enterprise software businesses strive for 90-95% gross retention (generally the percent of revenue that sticks with you vs churns altogether), with net expansion in the 120%+ range (the aggregate change in expansion - contraction - churned revenue). Namely, retention!! For “fake” ARR, retention can vary wildly.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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The Top 5 Trending SaaStr Europa 2024 Sessions: Going, Notion, Retool + Open AI + 20VC, Dashlane and Synthesia

SaaStr

The post The Top 5 Trending SaaStr Europa 2024 Sessions: Going, Notion, Retool + Open AI + 20VC, Dashlane and Synthesia appeared first on SaaStr. It will continue to evolve!!

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AI & CS: Innovate or stagnate

Totango

Some believe AI is overhyped. A recent poll taken during the Higher Logic Super Forum SPARK conference in April says 61% of CS professionals sometimes use AI platforms alongside other systems, while 11% always leverage AI in various instances and workflows. But there are proven, compliant ways to drive impact with AI today.