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

SaaStr

The AI Bubble Is Real — And That’s Not Necessarily Bad We’re living through the biggest AI deployment in corporate history. At the recent SaaStr 2025 event, CMOs were literally asking “How fast can I replace the bottom 30% of my team with AI?” The facts are too bad. After 4+ years. 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

29:00 The shift from product-led to intelligence-led SaaS development. B2B companies like Hivebrite and Equilend trust TriNet to help handle the infrastructure of their workforce, so their teams can focus on execution. And in a lot of ways that’s a lot like what happened in 2009, only 10 x or a hundred x bigger.

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The Path to CRO with TigerEye, CircleCl, Lattice, and Notion

SaaStr

While working at LinkedIn back in 2009, she was offered the role of building out the first SDR and BDR organization. The highs and lows always come, usually involving the people on your team. For Erica, the bad days are when they’re not executing or achieving growth the way they want. Automation and AI could solve for that.

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The Playbook to Building a Thriving Sales Culture with PatientPop SVP of Sales Justin Welsh (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Justin Welsh | SVP Sales @ PatientPop.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2009. Founded : 2014.

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The Ultimate Guide to Outsourcing Sales Development and Lead Generation

Sales Hacker

I have, since 2009, hired 20+ outsourced resources from all over the world for tasks such as data research, web design, translations, voiceover talent and more. No wonder you never want to eat out again… The Sales Development outsourcing industry is broken for that exact reason. I have learned quite a bit about it.

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The 8 Best CRO Companies of 2020

Neil Patel

For that amount, you can look forward to a big team entirely focused on your results. Founded in 2009, they’ve been constantly expanding their team and services. If you’re in the early stages of your business development, you’ll need a CRO company that is solely focused on helping people in your situation.