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

SaaStr

The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago. The numbers are staggering: AI spending is set to hit $644 billion in 2025, growing at a mind-bending 76.4%

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 23, 2025 The $10M-$100M ARR Sprint: How Replit Became the Fastest-Growing “Vibe Coding” App (Or One Of The Fastest) A deep-dive into the AI development platform wars and why Replit’s 10x growth in 5.5 And allowing more experienced developer to ship far, far faster. 2023 : $2.4M

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10 Ways AI Will Change Sales Forever. It’s Already Happening, In Fact.

SaaStr

If you’re skeptical about AI in sales because of hallucinations or poor experiences, Lemkin suggests it’s likely because you haven’t seen a well-trained AI. ” and your AI will deliver a perfect technical answer instantly. While not replacing the absolute best humans, they’re better than 90% of the team.

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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

SaaStr

SaaS Is Still Slowing Down, Unfortunately: What Q1 2025 Numbers Reveal About the Cloud Software Market The 40% Rule: Why This Number Changes Everything Here’s the uncomfortable truth: 40% of workloads have now moved to the cloud. Weak players get acquired or shut down. This probably isn’t a temporary blip.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

SaaStr

So we’ll have ~20 of the latest AI start-ups from YCombinator at a special YC Demo Pod area at 2025 SaaStr Annual! Come meet them (and also watch 100+ present live at our first AI Demo Stage ) at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! The team comes from MongoDB and Elastic, bringing deep search expertise.

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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

SaaStr

And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay for 300+ more sessions, workshops, and braindates like this! A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects. You might have founded a product company, but you’re running a distribution company.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

And the biggest difference between the two of those statements is one, low value to sort of medium and high value, and then two, the actual service layer built into the technology underneath the hood. And when you’re doing the due diligence, there’s only so many assets within a YouTube channel you need to assess.

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