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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

SaaStr

The price for inference has massively plummeted this year, so you have more powerful models to build into your application, and they cost less every time you use them. Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010.

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The Real Story Behind B2B SaaS Growth Today: What Maxio’s Data from 2,400+ Private Companies Tell Us

SaaStr

We’re seeing echoes of 2008-2009, where nimble startups thrived during the downturn. Success now means being in a must-have category, matching your pricing model to your stage, and building for the long term. Yes, there’s higher churn at the bottom of the market, but the survivors are growing faster than ever.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tom Tunguz

Bezos continued: So, if the company is better positioned today than it was a year ago, why is the stock price so much lower than it was a year ago? All this took patience: Amazon’s share price exceeded the dot-com high Oct 23, 2009, a decade later. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33 before falling to $0.298.

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What Things in SaaS Were Like in ’08-’09. And What They Probably Will Be Like in ’20.

SaaStr

Some did try to renegotiate price down in the renewal, but not that many. Marc Benioff said not hiring more sales reps in 2009 was one of his top mistakes. And yet, even through those bleakest times, here’s what happened: Every enterprise customer we had renewed. Thank goodness we didn’t need more capital.

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Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation

FastSpring

But what about pricing? When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. Why You Shouldn’t Trust How Your Competitor’s Price.

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5 Interesting Learnings from SurveyMonkey. As It Crosses $300m in ARR.

SaaStr

It stayed small until 2009 when the founders were bought out by a private equity firm. Price Increases Do Work at Scale. SurveyMonkey increased prices, which resulted in a big chunk of growth. At 16% growth, that’s about half of it from pricing increases. Founded back in 1999 (like Salesforce) in the Web 1.0

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What The Downturn Will Probably Look Like in SaaS

SaaStr

Housing prices apparently are falling in the Bay Area. Your experience may have been different, but in ours, maybe only 10% of enterprises under stress tried to negotiate contract prices down on renewals. We certainly didn’t raise prices But many budgets were simply frozen. We still doubled sales in 2009.