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The ChatGPT Moment: When 8 Years of Growth Happens in 8 Months

SaaStr

trillion annual searches. It hit 1 billion searches per day in under a year : Let’s put this in perspective: ChatGPT compressed what took Google over a decade into roughly 300 days. The AI Adoption Explosion Across the Board But ChatGPT isn’t alone. Google took 15 years to reach 1.2 Claude now has 18.9 The kicker?

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June 30, 2025: The Date Where If Your Team Hasn’t Rolled Out Truly Great AI Into Production Yet… It’s Time to Reboot the Team

SaaStr

June 30, 2025: The date where if your team hasn’t rolled out a truly great AI into production yet … and seen a boost from it … It’s time to reboot the team. June 30, 2025 marks the time we need to wrap up the era of stalling, of waiting to see in AI. — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ ✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 21, 2025 It’s time.

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5 Interesting Learnings From DropBox at $2.6 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

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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Merchant of Record for Mobile Games: What It Is and Why You Need One

FastSpring

Market options have been opening up for both publishers and players in the mobile games industry thanks to shifting laws and regulations around the world. Because of these developments, mobile game companies are investigating more options for monetizing their games than just the App Store or Play Store. More details on those below.)

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Google's Future in Search & AI

Tom Tunguz

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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Seeking a Distribution Advantage with AI

Tom Tunguz

In the last five major cycles (internet, social, mobile, cloud, web3), startups seized the new technologies of the era to create a distribution advantage. Google led to search-engine optimization, which startups like Expedia & Zillow grew to become public companies. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower SaaS

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” Are you targeting desktop, tablet, or mobile? Most new sites need to account for mobile delivery – but on the other hand, not every MVP needs both desktop and mobile versions. How can we use AI to improve the customer experience?