SaaStr

JANUARY 1, 2025

78% of you see 2025 being better than 2024: In most of B2B, it may never be as easy as 2H’20 and 2021. 2025 should be (even) better. TL;DR: It Sure Feels Like It) The post 78% Of You Are More Bullish About 2025 Than 2024 appeared first on SaaStr. So it was fun and perhaps not surprising to see the latest SaaStr poll data.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

And 2025 Annual is earlier this year — it’s May 13-15 instead of the September for 2021-2024. We loved these new massive 2 story lounges at Annual that we are offering just 2 “Mega’ Sponsorships for 2025 Annual. See everyone March 13-15 2025!! SaaStr Annual 2025 will be here in no time!!

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2024

They’ve raised their expectations for both 2024 and 2025 for SaaS: Gartner is now projecting overall SaaS spend to be up a stunning 20.0% The post Gartner: SaaS Spend is Actually Accelerating, Will Hit ~$300 Billion in 2025 appeared first on SaaStr. Canva just announced it’s growing 40% at $2.4B How does this all net out?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The post SaaStr Annual 2025 is May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Tickets now are the cheapest they will ever be and are fully refundable outside a ~30 day window before Annual. As low as $549 (!) No complaints on pricing if you buy last minute! So grab tickets NOW to save the most. And bring your whole team!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We’re excited to have Rippling as a first-time Diamond Sponsor for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay! ! They’ve had such a great experience they’re going BIG at SaaStr Annual 2025 as a Diamond Sponsor. Join Team Rippling and 10,000+ of The Best in SaaS and Cloud at SaaStr Annual 2025!!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2024

And so, Private-Equity backed SaaS companies may finally in 2025 say It’s Just Time. Genesys may be the first of a flood of these PE-backed SaaS IPOs in 2025. Will it be a flood of these PE-backed IPOs in 2025? Will 2025 Be The Year Of The “It’s Just Time” IPO? Longer is suboptimal, btu OK.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

— Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) (@MartinGTobias) September 26, 2024 So we’re already off to the races for planning for SaaStr Annual 2025 , especially because we’ve moved it back to earlier in the year (where it always was pre-2020), to May 13-15 on our 40+ acre campus in SF Bay! That will double by the time we get to May 2025.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On the last installment of Workshop Wednesday , where we bring you some of the best SaaStr speakers live with new content and to answer your questions live on Wednesdays— SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg, Executive in Residence at Balderton Capital share what really matters in SaaS for 2025. They want it fixed first.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2024

So much is going on in 2024, we needed a bit of time to plan APAC v2, but we will be back in February 2025 for the second SaaStr APAC! We’ll see 1,500+ of you in February 2025! And a great summary here: The post SaaStr APAC Will Be Back in February 2025!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 18, 2023

The post “Talk to You in 2025”: When There Isn’t Budget appeared first on SaaStr. This is what they tend to be really good at. Getting past all these objections. Especially — “Not Now”. note: an updated SaaStr Classic post).

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USIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

Here’s a look at the top 8 payment predictions for 2025—focusing SaaS payments, disbursements, and invoice print/mail,—to help your business adapt and thrive in the future. By 2025, seamless payments will be the norm.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Top Marketing Strategies for 2025 Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta #4. Top SaaStr Podcasts & Videos of the Week: #1. “What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg” #2. 83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet #5.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2025

But in 2025, Step Up or Step Aside. #4: 2025 Will Be Radically Different. . #2: Gong: $100k Deals Take About 70 Days to Close #3: Yes, You Need to Focus. 4: HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on AI and SaaS, Board Meetings, and The Incumbent Advantage #5: Most SaaS Apps Are Just Getting Starting With AI.

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The Daily Egg

AUGUST 21, 2020

By 2025, we’re projected to produce 463 exabytes (4,630,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data every day. Everything you do online leaves a digital trail. Which is cool and all… but what does that mean for business owners, digital marketers, bloggers, and data engineers? It’s a massive opportunity.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2024

and >accelerating< – 80% Gross Margins – 500 $1m+ customers 20x ARR doesnt seem >that< high pic.twitter.com/5qW7jeReQc — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 17, 2024 So SaaS is back. And it will be cash-flow positive in 2025. It will be cash-flow positive in 2025. #4.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2024/2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin And come see 200+ top SaaS, Cloud and AI sessions like these at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #9.

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BetterCloud

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As we round the corner to 2025, the IT landscape is poised for significant transformation. With a focus on streamlining operations and enhancing security, emerging IT trends prove 2025 will be a doozy. Anyone else feel like 2024 breezed by?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Gong has its 2025 State of Revenue out. You can grab it here. In general, the report ties to what were seeing everywhere in SaaS. Were ending the year in general with stronger growth that the prior year. Gong also looked across its entire customer base to measure deal velocity.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2025

" [link] — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 11, 2025 So a newer issue that is discussed a lot at start-up board meetings and investor meetings is AI Engineer comp. In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After going virtual and hybrid during the 2021 era, and moving its HQ to Bozeman Montana when ex-CEO Frank Slootman moved there… and officially leaving the SF Bay (albeit keeping its office in San Mateo ) in 2021 … Snowflake is quadrupling down on the SF Bay Area in 2025.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Salesforce, Nov 2024: We're hiring 1,000 new sales execs to sell AI!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2024

If you are in the same space as these leaders … maybe sponsor SaaStr Annual 2025, May 13-15!! See everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! The average Super Gold sponsor received 470 qualified leads in 2024, up from 249 in 2023. These sponsors worked the hardest, perhaps.

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The Moz Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Looking for guidance to create an SEO strategy in 2025? Discover the top SEO trends with predictions from 23 search experts.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2024

Larger quantities of our latest generation Trainium2 is coming in the second half of 2024 and early 2025.” “We have the broadest selection of NVIDIA compute instances around, but demand for our custom silicon, Trainium and Inferentia, is quite high given its favorable price performance benefits relative to available alternatives.

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The Moz Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discover 24 AI tools to streamline workflows, save time, and boost your productivity in 2025. Overwhelmed by debugging, tight deadlines, and clunky tools?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And do your 2025 Team Retreat in SF Bay around 2025 SaaStr Annual on May 13-15! That excludes hotels and flights though, but it’s not that far from what it costs 37 Signals to bring their teams together for smaller events when you back out those costs. In fact, often not really cheaper than having an office. But IMHO, worth it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Google Cloud itself is predicting the Cloud will triple by 2026 or so , and reach $760B in spend in 2025, up from $290B in 2020 (note, I’m extrapolating a year or so from this chart and prediction, which itself is from IDC data): While Google is focused in particular on Cloud infrastructure, it really doesn’t matter.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2025

Top Posts: #1: 2025 And The Rise of the Mech AE (Account Executive) #2: 2025 Should Be Better Than 2024 For Almost All Leading Public SaaS Companies #3: 38% of Bootstrapped Start-Ups Have Solo Founders. But Only 17% of VC-Backed Ones Do. And 10%-12% of Ones That IPO. #4:

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SaaStr

JANUARY 9, 2025

— Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 28, 2024 So we’ve talked a ton on SaaStr over the years on the risks and benefits of hiring your various VPs and C-level execs. 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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2024

There have only been 3 SaaS IPOs since 2021, but ServiceTitan is the next one, and the pipeline looks strong for the back half of 2025 and into 2026, from Canva to Databricks to Stripe to Wiz to Snyk and on and on. ” and the post not only took off, it summarized a zeitgeist, a malaise, a feeling across much of B2B at the start of 2024.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Canva, Stripe, Databricks, ServiceTitan, Gusto, Wiz should all have epic IPOs in 2025 or maybe 2026. So the best of the best in SaaS and Cloud are still on fire. But one thing is clear: it’s taking longer to IPO: It used to take 10.4 years on average to IPO in SaaS. More on that data here. The last 3 SaaS IPOs took 11.3

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Gartner: SaaS Spend is Actually Accelerating, Will Hit ~$300 Billion in 2025 What’s my point? But for a reason. CIOs and others are looking for efficiency in AI, not more generic workflow tools. That’s it time for you to adjust, not wait for the market to. The spend is still there.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

When Salesforce is already in its fiscal 2025. Now, if you scroll down, you’ll see the 2025 investor materials are all there. investor presentation. But way is the 2022 presentation highlighted at the top? There may be a reason eluding me. But I’m 90% sure it just hasn’t been touched.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Better to put that energy into products that would move the needle in Cloud in 2019–2025 and beyond. Once Office 365, Azure, etc. took off, and Microsoft’s Cloud strategy became clear … a new task manager wasn’t important enough. It seemed possible at the time it might help their productivity application strategy. The big ones, though.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2025 Rate Cut Expectations The Fed’s “Dot Plot” shows where each member expects rates to be each year. The Dot Plot released on Wednesday showed an expectation of 2 rate cuts in 2025. Prior to this meeting, the expectations were for 3-4 rate cuts in 2025. in 2025 (with the projection being 2.2%

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 2, 2024 So we’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how Customer Success has changed over the past 24 months. In many cases, it’s now part of the revenue team, and bringing in more revenue is Goal #1.

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