SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So, in 2024, there should be a more normalized customer base from a retention perspective as you transition past Q1 and those customers are transitioning with you. The Takeaway — While 2024 should be a bit more predictable, the most important metrics ZoomInfo is focusing on now are utilization and engagement.

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

Announces Partnership with Usio as Preferred Payment Integration Partner for USA Customers Chattanooga, Tennessee – 17 June 2024 – ues.io, the leading no-code/pro-code platform for building enterprise applications with AI, today announced a strategic partnership with Usio , a trusted leader in integrated payment solutions. application.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin shares his take on the current SaaS landscape midway through 2024 and what might be coming next in 2025 at the opener to this year’s SaaStr Europa. Deals are contracting, not because of layoffs, but because people are managing budgets so tightly. Why does 2024 in AI feel like 2021? Just build.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Krahl’s appointment cements Stax’s commitment to investing in its team and bringing on new team members with deep industry knowledge and is the latest executive hire at Stax.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Real-time monitoring and alerts Middleware provides near-real-time alerts, refreshing every 15 seconds, which allows teams to detect anomalies and address them before they escalate. The importance of such rapid alerting was highlighted during the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024, emphasizing the need for swift responses.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. Then I got hired at a tech company in Lithuania before I knew what tech even was. Sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes three times.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2025

Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. We’ve spend the most time on hiring a great first VP of Sales, but all the VPs are super important.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Ok the title here is a bit dramatic, but certainly seed investing is in an odd place in 2024. Public valuations are still at a fraction of their 2021 peaks, but seed rounds are more expensive than ever. The Qualities of Great CTOs (00:15:54) To identify great CTOs, it may take interviewing 20 candidates.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

As I dig in to recap what I saw and learned at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco , I was forced to face my failure to write consistently – a failure that dates back almost exactly a year, to June 12, 2024. Thinking back on it, I see two causes. I had “gotta write about that!!”

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Scytale

APRIL 14, 2025

In 2024, 66% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) in the United States identified human error as their organization’s biggest cyber vulnerability. From new hires to executives, all employees can face security risks. Let me pause here for a second. Can your people truly be your most significant liability?

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2024

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. Also, don’t miss out on discounted prices for SaaStr Annual 2024 tickets. Brian and Dharmesh started the company out of MIT Sloan, so who did they hire?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

I’m not going to claim to be the founder of Levelset, but that founding team, CTO, VP of customer experience, chief legal, our CFO, who kind of came later, but like that group, everyone stayed with the organization in executive roles the whole time. Let’s go hire somebody. I’ll hire the person.

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