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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

And why the AI budget war is just getting started Top 5 Takeaways 1. AI is Eating SaaS Budgets : Companies like Cursor are generating massive revenue by replacing traditional SaaS workflows entirely. The Disruption Math Can Be Brutal : In contact centers, AI replaces 40-50% of human agents but only increases software ACV by 50%.

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

They were two developers who had lived through the nightmare of subscription infrastructure while working at Elevate. The Problem Was Real: Apple and Google’s app stores weren’t giving developers the data they needed. ” required weeks of developer time to answer. Managing Them Will Remain a Headache.

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

The KPI Alignment System Have customers email explicit performance expectations Build custom reporting dashboards Weekly cross-team optimization meetings Formal performance reviews 2. A self-reinforcing flywheel where successful customers: Get promoted Tell their network Become champions Drive organic growth 3. Black Friday playbook) 3.

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The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov

SaaStr

Earlier this month, Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov sat down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Europa 2024 to talk about all things AI and the lessons learned while scaling to billions. Back in 2015, Google AI beat the world chess champion easily. AI was starting to diagnose diseases better than doctors.

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The AI messaging pivot happening across SaaS

Sales Hacker

In 2023, we saw a surge of SaaS brands adding anything AI-powered or AI-driven into their website headlines. The optics were that if AI wasnt integral to your roadmap and marketing, you were losing relevance. Many venture capital firms shifted their investments almost entirely into AI startups.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

Is there any kind of places where geographically you’re seeing like we’re starting to see a lot more business or a lot more acquisitions in these regions? And the AI matching connected them up with that opportunity. The cost of the technology is high, the cost of customer acquisition is high.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Customer Churn

Stax

Acquiring new customers is significantly more expensive than retaining existing ones, with studies showing that customer acquisition costs (CAC) can be five to 25 times higher than the cost of keeping a current customer. Bad software user experience User experience is everything when it comes to SaaS platforms.