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The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal

SaaStr

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. The goal was to build safe AGI — AGI being autonomous systems that can perform work as well or better than humans. It was exciting then, even though it’s old hat now — an extraordinary leap forward in innovation when released. It started with chatbots.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Putting narrative order on the past decade, a 10-year-period that has somehow remained stubbornly nameless, is quite the challenge, but it’s impossible to make sense of the 2010s without understanding the role of software. To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010.

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3 Tips to Accelerate You to $100M ARR and Beyond with Payrix Director, Marketing Katie Wickham and Bob Butler, Payrix Chief Commercial Officer (Video)

SaaStr

Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business. Shopify took the company to IPO in 2015 and today has a market cap of about $40 billion. .

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2011.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Best For: Online Payment Processing. Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. 1 Intercom.

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How ShortPoint Experienced 10x Growth and Expanded their Global Footprint with Full-Service Ecommerce

FastSpring

ShortPoint is a leader in intranet design software. Since 2015, they have built over 20,000 beautiful and functional intranet sites with more than 50 global partners. Global payments became an area of focus for the team. The team evaluated point solutions in an effort to build out their own complete ecommerce set up.

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

The solution? Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. Micro startup acquisitions.