SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond chats with the CEO and co-founder of Clay, Kareem Amin, about two major topics: The evolution of Go-To-Market systems: where we are today with the incorporation of AI, and where we’re headed. It blends AI and SaaS and can speed up the outbound Go-To-Market process. So let’s dive in.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2025

SaaStr Annual + AI Summit 2025 is just around the corner , taking place at the San Mateo County Event Center from May 13-15, 2025. Thursday, May 15th promises to be action-packed, starting with an AI and Sales Kickoff at 9:00 am, followed by sessions with Anthropic and Cursor, and a Founder/VC Brunch.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 4, 2025

1 Over the weekend, I decided to migrate this workflow to use AI tools, & the process taught me something important about how we’re actually integrating AI into our work. Tools are small programs that expand AI capabilities. ChatGPT might call a web search tool to read a blog post I’d like to summarized.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2025

The ultimate gathering of SaaS and AI leadership is about to happen in San Francisco. SaaStr Annual + SaaStr AI Summit 2025! We’re bringing together the true founders, revenue leaders and product visionaries that are actually driving the next wave of AI first software. It’s days away now! Not talking heads.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a recent Office Hours, Baris Gultekin, Head of AI at Snowflake & a friend from Google, shared his insights into Snowflake’s approach to AI. It was a great conversation to understand how one of the leading data companies is pushing AI forward. There are four major pushes for Snowflake within AI.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. The future of Enterprise is “Ambient AI.”

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

But the story in this quarter’s reports is AI. Another example of AI favoring incumbents : Epic, a large health records company worth about $10-12b with about 30% market share in the US, has implemented some OpenAI features. Another data point I’m watching is Bing search share.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

What does advertising look like in the world of AI? In a future where generative AI dominates search, the ten blue links & five sponsored ads disappear. These are both passed to the AI model into the context window. What if the training data contains caloric misinformation about a new Pepsi fizzy mushroom cola?

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 7, 2025

The right AI marketing tools will help you automate repetitive tasks, make data-driven decisions, and unblock your creativity. The shift to AI-powered marketing has been dramatic. According to Hubspot, 74% of marketers now use AI in their roles, compared to just 21% in 2023. The cool thing is you get a lot of control.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2025

And now it’s transitioning to its third phase, investing big in its more AI focused business offering, Dash, while managing its classic but mature file sharing business efficiently. Phase 3 of Dropbox: “We are evolving from traditional file sync and share to AI-powered universal search and content intelligence.”

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Google’s earnings call identified some major changes and unexpected outcomes, including the performance of AI Ads, the importance of hardware compared to algorithmic efficiency gains, and the groundswell of developer adoption for Gemini models. The new modalities for engaging with computers will be the main theme of AI in 2025.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Not necessarily from a content creation standpoint but more so how it is going to kill search. But here is the thing, when you currently perform a search on Bing, Google, or even ask ChatGPT a question neither of them is always correct, which I will get to in a bit. Or that people won’t need to search anymore.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI. Over the next year or so, we will all ask each other, what could AI do for me?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Being responsible for the design of AI services used by millions of people is a huge responsibility, and Arin is deeply aware of that. According to him, good design doesn’t need to sacrifice transparency, and imperceptible AI isn’t ethical AI. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. Discord launched Clyde Hubspot launched Chatbot Snapchat launched MyAI Spotify was able to offer better recommendation engines — AI DJ.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

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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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. You can filter your search by industry, whether you’re SMB, mid-market, or Enterprise, etc. AI is just a better interface than forms-based searching.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Search is like the front door to your website. As the most effective way to reach your audience, search is critical to your digital marketing strategy and each customer journey. Your customers are only a search query away, thanks to search engines like Google. The evolution of search has a long history.

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The Moz Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this video, we analyze 46,000 keywords to reveal where AI Overviews are actually appearing in search results, which industries are most affected, and what this means for your SEO strategy.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI search has become an invaluable tool for finding information quickly and efficiently. At FastSpring, we aim to continually enhance our AI search capabilities, ensuring you receive accurate and relevant answers. ” For “Why is my invoice not showing up?,”

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

What special data, content, APIs, etc., What’s the state of the relationships that brings you that data? Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? Member Profiles What data is included? What about an AI support assistant?

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Sparktoro

AUGUST 4, 2024

The good folks at Sonata Insights recently analyzed Datos‘ clickstream panel to uncover consumer search behavior insights in the “age of AI” If you’re in the digital marketing world, it’s probably worth your time to download and read.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So at SaaStr Annual, Dave Kellogg did a great deep dive on “5 Things Every B2B CEO Needs to Know about Marketing” In the Age of AI it’s even more true today, so I wanted to update our SaaStr take-aways from the deep dive. These “five-five” CMOs barely exist. Better to hire for your specific needs and stage.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

Subscribe now Data + Compute = AI Two of the largest data companies in the world, Snowflake and Databricks, held their annual conferences this week. Foundation models and their outputs are only as good as the data that feeds / trains them. To truly take advantage of AI, enterprises need organized data in the cloud.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

So is AI taking over everything? Across the SaaStr Fund portfolio, I’ve seen multiple portfolio companies lost $1m customers to new, in-house AI initiatives. But I’ve also seen others grow even faster as AI rebooted and enhanced their products. AI is part of it, platforms are part of it. I mean … maybe.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Accel Partner Philipe Botteri and Synthesia’s co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli deep dive into the lessons learned about building an Enterprise-focused Generative AI company and scaling it. They began with AI dubbing, dubbing real video into different languages and changing the lip synchronization and voice-over.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Why UX analytics should go beyond quantitative data. Methods for collecting and analyzing UX data. UX analytics involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about how users interact with your product or service.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 22, 2024

Accurately target customers Facebook has a lot of user data and allows marketers to use it when targeting their audiences. According to Meta, this will help to "maximize the performance benefits of AI in your ad campaigns and maximize the value of each ad impression." What are the benefits of advertising on Facebook?

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IT World

JUNE 6, 2023

Palo Alto-based startup Glean, founded in 2019 by former Google, Microsoft and Meta employees, has released a new generative-AI based assistant, dubbed Glean Chat, designed to boost productivity and efficiency across enterprises via a conversational search interface.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

Brainstorming content ideas, scheduling posts, replying to comments, analyzing your social media marketing performance, tweaking your marketing strategy based on data — and repeating it all over again day in and day out for multiple social media platforms. You’re spinning multiple plates at once as a social media marketer.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 4, 2025

Whats emerging isnt just another AI point solution (well, actually, yes – there are many of those!). The shift to a new operating model: the GTM AI Operating System. Were calling this the rise of the GTM AI OS a coordinated, AI-driven backbone that connects marketing, sales, CS, and product into a single motion.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The AI assistant helps you generate ideas, repurpose content, and edit posts to perfection. Gauge audience sentiment with AI-powered analysis. Generate AI-powered posts based on what's working in your niche.   Quuu uses AI to curate content and draft posts suitable for your audience. All in all, Predis.ai

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Neil Patel

JUNE 9, 2025

Does Google’s AI Mode herald a new era of search? What does AI Mode mean for your site traffic? Key Takeaways AI Mode is a new search tool that builds on AI Overviews by providing extra depth, reasoning, and personalization to responses. AI Mode is currently only available in the U.S.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

The AI must plan what to do at each step. Then it searches the web, or its memory, for the data necessary, then it creates each slide. As AI chains these calls together the universe of potential outcomes explodes. I imagine it this way : At the end of every step, another model validates the output of the AI.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

So I started a list : what are the ways I use AI that are new in the last year? Or correct the grammar in a sentence or execute a quick search on a topic or summarize an email or format a list. AI is driving a broader behavior change : summarize, then determine whether to invest the effort to read.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2024

In the product-led sales world, you use that data from freemium users to pitch to your customers. If you have product-led sales, those reps can use the data from existing users to see what features they’re using and their job personas and tailor a pitch to the organization. How does that collaboration and hand-off with sales work?

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In the last two years, M&A has totaled about $49b & it surges to above $60b driven by AI acquisitions. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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