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NVIDIA Hits $4 Trillion: What Founders Can Learn from the Greatest Growth Story Ever Told

SaaStr

For SaaS founders, NVIDIA’s journey offers critical lessons about platform strategy, timing major transitions, and building infrastructure that becomes indispensable. The Platform Play (2010-2016): Expanding Beyond Core Use Case Market Cap Journey: ~$10B → $50B This is where NVIDIA showed true platform genius.

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

SaaStr

Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. valuation, paused roadshow but still targeting 2025) Potential Candidates: Stripe (payments processing, $91.5B Filed April 2025 Stripe 2010 Patrick Collison Payments $1.4T “We are not far from that.”

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Quantifying the Financial Impact of Post-Sales Services: Elevating Customer Success to the Next Level of Decision-Making

Valuize Consulting

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

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How oeksound Took Their Audio Plugins Business Global

FastSpring

When the first oeksound plugin, Soothe, was created in 2016, creator Olli Keskinen and his friend Hannes Andersson were studying music technology to become recording engineers. Why a frictionless purchase process is such a key focus for oeksound to continue expanding their sales. Jump to video. Jump to transcript.

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GTM 133: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford

Sales Hacker

Jordan demonstrates how to use the FIND (Focus, Investigate, Narrate, Deploy) process for your go-to-market strategy and how to speed this up with OpenAI’s Deep Research AI tool. Jordan also shares the prompts and processes he uses when researching target accounts, messaging buyers, and driving revenue. It’s the process.

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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. Only half does.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments. Well, it’s murky.