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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

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It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000.

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

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– RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai

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How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth to Hypergrowth

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After going public in September 2020 with 47% annual growth, the company hit peak quarterly growth of 49% in early 2021. While everyone was building ChatGPT wrappers, Palantir was quietly becoming the infrastructure layer that makes AI actually useful in large organizations. Then came the long slide down.

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Yes, Open AI Has Raised an Insane Amount of Money. But It Tracks Insane Growth Almost 1:1

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revenue, ~$1B total funding 2021: $34M revenue, ~$3B total funding 2022: $200M revenue, ~$3B total funding 2023: $2.2B Phase 2: The Inflection Point (2022-2023) Funding Strategy : Scale infrastructure ahead of demand Revenue Strategy : Freemium land grab with ChatGPT This is where the magic happened. ChatGPT launches in November 2022.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

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For seven years, growth was painfully slow: 2016-2021 : Minimal revenue, limited funding first years 2022 : $1M ARR (after 6 years!) We’re witnessing the emergence of platforms that turn ideas into applications with the same ease that ChatGPT turns prompts into text. 2023 : $2.4M ARR Despite raising significant funding ($97.4M

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The Great AI Reset: It’s Time to Refound Your Start-Up. Now.

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When I talk to founders who launched in 2020 or 2021, I hear the same anxiety: “Are we already legacy?” ” Their products were built for a different world – before ChatGPT, before the great AI awakening, before every investor and customer started demanding AI capabilities as table stakes. A skunkworks team?

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The Series A Landscape in 2025: Insights from Chemistry VC’s Ethan Kurzweil

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Current State of Early-Stage Venture Market The early-stage venture landscape has experienced significant shifts since the peaks of 2021. We’re seeing: Deal activity decline : From the highs of 2021 (around 3.5B raised in Q4 2021), we’re seeing a return to baseline levels but still below pre-zero interest rate era volumes.