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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

SaaStr

.” The SaaS Market Has Turned a Corner According to Brian, who sees the market through multiple lenses as HubSpot’s Chairman and through his role at Sequoia Growth and Propeller VC, the SaaS downturn that dominated 2022-2023 ended recently. “It felt like we came out of the recession in Q3 of 2024,” Brian noted.

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MongoDB at $2B+ ARR: 5 Epic Learnings from Q1 2026 That Every B2B Leader Should Study

SaaStr

Product innovation can reignite growth engines even at massive scale. They engineer business models that deliver both. Market category expansion (AI workloads driving new use cases) The SaaStr Takeaway: Don’t accept linear growth deceleration as inevitable.

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

SaaStr

The Platform Play: Beyond Subscriptions (2023-2024) By 2023, RevenueCat had achieved something remarkable: powering subscriptions in over 70,000 mobile appsroughly one-in-three new subscription apps launched with RevenueCat under the hood.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Cloudflare at $1.7 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Cloud and SaaS have had a bit of a rollercoaster the past 4 years, from the boom times of 2020-2021, to the tougher times overall of 2023, to the AI boom of 2024+. 221,000 Total Paying Customers, But 65% of Revenue From 3,200 Large Customers This is what you should see when a “long tail” engine is just working at scale.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

June 21, 2023 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Master the art of communication for team success, informed leadership, and nurturing strong customer relationships Don't miss out and register now!

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Figma's S-1: A PLG Powerhouse

Tom Tunguz

Figma’s product is its primary marketing engine. For every dollar spent on sales & marketing in 2023, Figma generated a dollar of new gross profit in 2024. billion termination fee from Adobe was received in December 2023 and recorded as “Other income, net” in Fiscal Year 2024 (ending January 31, 2024).

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5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $2.7 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Growth Has Re-Accelerated Fueled by commercial and government contracts, and by AI-related demand in both, Palantir is seeing growth re-accelerate from 2023. And a true engine of growth. #9. Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Pretty impressive. #2. Is you new customer count growing > 20%?

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

December 6th, 2023 at 11:00am PST, 2:00pm EST, 7:pm GMT Register today to save your seat!