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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

SaaStr

This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a fundamental shift that explains why your growth metrics don’t look like they did in 2019. When a development team switches to an AI-powered coding assistant, they’re not just adding a new tool—they’re often reducing their dependency on multiple legacy SaaS platforms.

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8 Out of 10 SaaS Founders Are Burning Cash Faster Than Ever — And Why YC is On Fire (SVB’s 2025 Data Breakdown)

SaaStr

Why It Matters : The report shows that VC investment has been highly correlated to rates, but in a moderate interest rate environment, rates will likely play a smaller role similar to 2017-2019. US developer salaries are showing signs of weakening. Company fundamentals and sector dynamics matter more than macro conditions. #9.

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Transitioning from Sales-Led to Product-Led Growth and Scaling to $100M ARR With Apollo’s CEO Tim Zheng

SaaStr

CEO Tim Zheng came to SaaStr Annual to share the deep dive on the journey from SLG to PLG here: Initial Challenges and Market Position In 2019, Apollo.io This inefficiency stemmed from the high costs associated with maintaining sales development representatives (SDRs), customer success managers (CSMs), and account executives.

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What is Click to Pay and How Does It Work?

Stax

Your provider will offer a set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) your developers can use to integrate the Click to Pay systems with your website CMS, eCommerce platform, or SaaS platform. Learn More What is Click to Pay? Then, you can now integrate the new payment system into your existing digital infrastructure.

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How Digital Founders Can Build Authentic Personal Brands with Rachel Gogos

FastSpring

And then it goes into web, all the things needed for websites from copywriting, design, development, to pushing out WordPress websites is the majority of the work that we do. We all hopefully progress and develop. We build sales pages, courses, membership sites, e-commerce sites, podcasts, podcasts for other clients as well.

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5 Interesting Learnings from UiPath at $600,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was founded way back in 2005 as an outsourcing company, then developed Windows software to automate scripts and more, and turned this into a powerhouse for automating complex functions integrating Cloud and on-prem. 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. 2019: $336m rev. 2014: $500k rev. seed round. 2016: $3.5m

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GitLab S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

implies a 17 month payback period with a contract size of $55k, but the S-1 suggests the enterprise part of the business has been an important focal point. The significant delta in the figures suggest customers pre-pay their contracts often. Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. -. Gross Margin. Sales Efficiency. -. Net Income Margin.

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