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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

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in revenue in 2024, with 99% coming from interest income on USDC reserves. Circle paid $908 million in distribution costs to Coinbase in 2024 while generating only $156 million in net income. This early investment in regulatory compliance has become their key differentiator against Tether and newer entrants.

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

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as of April 2025, the growth trajectory has flattened since late 2024. Moving from AI pilots to production-grade implementations requires solving hard technical problems around data pipelines, security, compliance, and workflow integration. While overall AI penetration among U.S. businesses has reached an incredible 41.7%

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Everyone knew mobile commerce was exploding (from 15% in 2014 to 75% in 2024), but reaching customers on mobile was broken. CEO Amit Jhawar joined us at SaaStr Annual for a deep dive: 1. Solve The Hard Problem First And Patent It The first key insight? Attentive spent months with brands, consumers, and regulators to crack this.

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Embedded Payments in 2024: A year in review for platforms | Episode 44

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The world of Embedded Payments saw remarkable developments in 2024, shaping strategies and innovations across the industry. 4 key takeaways from Embedded Payments in 2024 Takeaway #1: Maturity in Embedded Payments One of the standout observations from 2024 was the growing maturity of software platforms entering the Embedded Payments space.

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Unlock the Secrets: How These Top SaaS Leaders are Transforming Payments into Profit

Speaker: Speakers: Robin Eissler, BoosteHub & Cory Benn, PracticeSuite

They’ll also discuss the importance of PCI Level 1 Compliance and security when dealing with payments. Webinar Date & Time: July 11th, 2024 @ 11:00 AM EDT Learn how they increased their company valuation by up to 300% and generated over $700,000 in additional revenue.

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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

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” Market Context: The PostgreSQL Rush PostgreSQL is now the most popular database, according to the 2024 Developer Survey by Stack Overflow, outpacing the open source MySQL format and databases from Microsoft, MongoDB and Redis. Consolidation Accelerating In the first half of 2024 alone, software M&A transactions in the U.S.

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The Great IPO Awakening: What 2025’s Surprisingly Hot Market Means for B2B Companies

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Deep Dive: Recent B2B IPOs and What They Tell Us Let’s examine the most relevant B2B companies from this cohort and extract the key lessons for SaaS founders: The B2B Standouts ServiceTitan (12/11/2024) IPO Size : $718M at $52-57 range, priced at $71 Current Performance : +50.1% at $47-55 range, priced at $40 Current Performance : +250.4%

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