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The Latest SaaStr on 20VC: The State of SaaS 2025: IPOs, AI, and the Coming Shakeout

SaaStr

The New Exit Reality Analysis shows that 99th percentile exits have grown from $1.4B (2005-2009) to $10.2B They’re the “AWS of AI” and will capture massive value. But the very, very best ones compound … almost forever. The top 20% that IPO will more than cover the mediocre returns from the rest. in recent years.

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GTM 146: The Future of Search, AI, and Digital Presence with Mike Walrath, CEO of Yext

Sales Hacker

And so from 2008, 2007, 2006, I think Google went public in 2005 or something like [00:06:00] that. Everyone called, well, okay, that’s, that was awful, so that’s gotta be the bottom right. We saw Google, Google showed up and they changed everything. It became all about relevancy. it was like magic, right?

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Successes and Setbacks on the Road to $1B with Alessio Artuffo, President and COO at Docebo

SaaStr

Customers range from AWS skills-builder platforms with billions of users to Zoom using it for customers and employees. Docebo was started and funded in 2005 and became a SaaS player in 2012. They’re also growing fast and are nicely profitable. Let’s dive into it. Instead, it was growth at all costs.

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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time. Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. Storage is following a similar path.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s less expensive than it’s ever been in terms of actually getting a product to market, whether it’s leveraging platforms like Salesforce or GCP or AWS or Heroku. So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January.

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A Complete Guide to Implementing SAML Authentication in Enterprise SaaS Applications

Frontegg

Service provider : The “service provider” is the target to which the started request is directed for verification; it may be Gmail, AWS, or Salesforce. It was ratified back in 2005. It keeps track of user permission records, and grants access to Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. There’s also SAML 2.0,

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A Complete Guide to Implementing SAML Authentication in Enterprise SaaS Applications

Frontegg

Service provider : The “service provider” is the target to which the started request is directed for verification; it may be Gmail, AWS, or Salesforce. It was ratified back in 2005. It keeps track of user permission records, and grants access to Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. There’s also SAML 2.0,