Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Who are the real AI winners. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. My hope is that this analysis can provide startup entrepreneurs with a framework for how to manage their businesses around SaaS metrics (e.g.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Ali: Enterprises move slow.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

Very healthy new business (new customer) acquisition. Usage on Snowflake is driven by queries run on Snowflake Azure: Neutral Tone With Strength in AI Overall I’d characterize Azure’s quarter as a net positive. ” They’re also seeing some real strength in AI Services.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Instead, we’re entering an exciting new moment in marketing where AI tools not only have the ability to free up humans to do the best work of their careers, they are helping companies reach their customers in a highly personal and engaging way. . Thankfully, no such Armageddon is on the horizon.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. Just from a platform perspective, we can look at it: everybody knows from the AWS perspective how inexpensive it is to go to market. The role of AI.

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User Pilot

APRIL 2, 2025

For instance, marketing focuses on user acquisition, whereas product looks at feature adoption. Userpilots data is fully encrypted and stored with SOC-compliant vendors like Amazon AWS and Google Cloud. Userpilots real-time analytics let you track behavior, feature usage, and engagement trends across web and mobile in one place.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Importantly, ATS platforms have evolved with AI-driven features , diversity and bias reduction tools , and deep analytics to meet todays hiring challenges. Manatal Best AI-Powered ATS for HR Teams Pricing: Key Features: Ideal Use Case: 5. Workable Best ATS for Medium-Sized Companies Pricing: Key Features: Ideal Use Case: 3.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

The AI-powered insights have helped us identify and resolve issues faster, resulting in stellar uptime and increased customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 customers.” Sara Cowie, Head of Customer Acquisition at Syncano , emphasizes the importance of these features: “Uptime and performance are vital to us.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This one is niche, but it’s interesting, not doing mergers and acquisitions sooner. You changed the name to ZoomInfo after that acquisition.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Intercom Intercom is an AI-powered customer service tool that equips teams to engage customers through omnichannel support and activity-driven automation. Features and functionality Intercom offers an AI-powered chatbot called Fin AI, omnichannel and multilingual support, as well as features for in-app guidance. per resolution.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2024

TL;DR Product-led growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy where the product is the main driver of customer acquisition , adoption, and account expansion. Referral schemes are an alternative method for driving customer acquisition. Both free and paid users need on-demand access to support. How do these growth models differ?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. We went through an acquisition and we got bought.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. AI Integrations. This means that growth can stagnate even with large acquisition numbers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The latest one is all AI with a big enterprise / B2B slant and is very good but dense. AI User Adoption Is Literally Unprecedented We know this, but still, the numbers do sort of blow your mind: ChatGPT: 0 to 800MM weekly users in 17 months (vs. Every B2B and SaaS company now competes in a global, AI-enabled market from Day 1.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. But over the past 12 months, Open AI’s ChatGPT has gone mainstream, Twitter has become X, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, as did FTX, and WeWork… How many of these did you see coming? Polis Pilavas , VP Engineering at ChartMogul “AI will dominate and disrupt.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2025

The rise of ChatGPT as the front-end to our AI world is pushing them to open. "AI & SaaS: Will MCP Replace Your Apps?" By blocking AI rivals like Glean from accessing Slack data, they’ve crystallized the central question every SaaS vendor will face: Is the data in your app YOUR data, or your customer’s data?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. So, I think that was super important.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Freemium can be an amazing acquisition engine, opening the top of the funnel and halving your customer acquisition costs (CAC) during a period where the industry as a whole sees CAC on the rise. Today, 55% of companies value PQLs, but only 23% of companies have actually begun to track PQLs through their acquisition funnel.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

Bonus points : Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP). Data scientist’s main responsibilities The three responsibility pillars of a data scientist encompass Data Acquisition and Engineering, Data Analysis and Modeling, and Communication and Collaboration. Experience with data visualization tools (e.g.,

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

He served as Chairman and CEO of the company until its acquisition by Yahoo! How Yext evolved from managing listings to powering AI-ready data pipelines. Actionable steps SaaS companies can take to optimize for AI agents and search diversification. 14:30 The new battleground: how AI engines like ChatGPT shape discoverability.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

To scale this support and extend it beyond our portfolio to the broader SaaS ecosystem, weve partnered with Pursuit – a leader in go-to-market talent acquisition. Create – launched AI Templates to make building even more accessible. More for your eyeballs AI SDRs and the future of prospecting.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Talview offers various services including talent acquisition, online assessments, asynchronous and live video interviews, talent management, remote proctoring, behavioral insights, recruitment marketing, and more. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth. Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

So left Twitter to join a super early stage startup in the AI and messaging space, and once I knew my time up was there, I started thinking about what was next. We’re in a rebranding process, we’re in a customer acquisition war, and so they’re spending just as much money on that as they are on IT.

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User Pilot

APRIL 4, 2025

Used effectively, mobile app analytics can help you: Attract better customers: By tracking user acquisition and retention over time, youll identify the marketing channels and strategies that bring your most engaged users. Best for: Deep analytics and AI-driven insights. Intercom Intercom is an AI-first customer service platform.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. If we think back on 2018 alone, over 90 billion dollars of acquisition activity, as the legacy vendors tried to buy their way into this space to catch up with the wave that the innovators have been leading. Twice for retail.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

From AI-driven applications to automation that slashes tedious tasks, SaaS solutions are becoming smarter and more efficient by the day. Well, AI and machine learning (ML) are making it a reality. In 2025, AI is supercharging SaaS applications, making them more intuitive, predictive, and flat-out smarter. Lets break it down. (A)

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