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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. The question becomes whether you can out-innovate them or find a defensible niche. But the very, very best ones compound … almost forever.

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

Sales Hacker

Why software innovation must start with intelligence, not workflow. And so from 2008, 2007, 2006, I think Google went public in 2005 or something like [00:06:00] that. The way we were developing product in 2009 and 2010, which felt incredibly innovative, is we’re identifying these kind of sectoral trends.

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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. Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. Maintaining an innovative edge. Marc is always wanting more.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. Process driven innovator focused on scalable growth. I was stretched to think about innovation and encouraged to take risks. . “An entrepreneurial leader and advisor from a technology background. Alicia Murphy.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

But if freemium is right for you, you’ll need to constantly innovate, iterate and evolve – and then, hopefully, gain the traction you need to stand out in a crowded market full of other free products. In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Service Now focuses on workplace innovation. Founded in: 2005. Founded in: 2005. Founded in: 1982. Founded in: 1999. Service Now.