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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

2019 saw SaaStr Annual’s biggest event yet – 12,000 global community members came together to take over the Bay Area and it became the event Where the Cloud Meets. So we took our learnings from our first successful outdoor event and brought back SaaStr Europa in 2022. 2019 The Fifth SaaStr Annual: Where the Cloud Meets .

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

At the end of Day 3 of SaaStr Annual 2022, Jason opened up the mic for an AMA. They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. Setting goals. Technical debt.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

The message in 2022 was to keep going. MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. Just build. in 12 months?

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. The AI, the LLM time is not scarce in the same way. You’ve got to think about taxes.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

SaaStr

4% during initial cloud buildout) What’s Really Happening: This isn’t just “cloud 2.0” If you’re not thinking about how to leverage this massive compute capacity, you’re missing the biggest infrastructure opportunity since the cloud transition. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. This is why we have created and curated a list of 30 top SaaS influencers you must follow in 2022 to receive excellent SaaS advice. Top 30 SaaS Influencers You Need to Follow in 2022. Aaron Levie. Casey Winters.