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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution

SaaStr

AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution Lessons from Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder and CTO of Rubrik, on scaling cyber resilience platforms, building multiple product curves, and implementing AI across both products and operations.

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

Prey Reality The AI Funding Explosion That Should Terrify SaaS Leaders Let’s start with the brutal math that should keep every SaaS CEO awake at night: $100 billion in venture capital went to AI startups in 2024 — an 80% increase from 2023 SaaS companies raised only $4.7 billion (two $6B rounds in 2024 alone) Sierra (Bret Taylor): $4.5

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June 30, 2025: The Date Where If Your Team Hasn’t Rolled Out Truly Great AI Into Production Yet… It’s Time to Reboot the Team

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By early 2024, every serious B2B company had access to the same foundational AI capabilities through APIs that cost pennies on the dollar. Workflow transformation that creates new value. Loom’s AI meeting summaries didn’t just transcribe—they created entirely new workflows around asynchronous collaboration.

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Top Tools for Monitoring API Performance

Teamgate

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

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The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding. As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. Data centers now consume 1.5% Token Costs Collapsed 99.7%

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My AI Writing Index, Feb '23 to Jun '24

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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. Working With My ChatGPT Intern 2023-05-29 Yesterday was a new record.

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You Won’t Know Most of Your 10x Hires Are That Good on Day 1

SaaStr

He made many great leadership points, but one in particular rattles around my head a lot and I think deserves its own post: You usually won’t know if you’ve made a 10x hire … when you make the hire. jasonlk) January 10, 2024 This has been my experience as well. (@jasonlk) January 10, 2024 This has been my experience as well.