SaaStr

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Along with co-host Ben Salzman, Jason and Henry discuss the transformative power of AI within SaaS and the evolving dynamics that are reshaping the landscape of software as a service. ” What Will AI Change in Go-to-Market “It will lead to a next level of transparency for leadership,” Jason answers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. At this year’s SaaStr AI Summit, GitHub CRO Elizabeth Pemmerl shared how to bring AI products to market at scale successfully. Keeping the door as wide as possible to get feedback.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2025

So it’s become a thing with many founders and VCs to think how far you can go in AI today. Many of the early break out leaders in AI for B2B and otherwise have been “small but mighty teams” Honestly we’d all love it if that scaled. So that 30 person, $100m ARR AI B2B start-up? Much faster.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2025

At SaaStr Annual’s AI Summit, we asked product leaders from some of the fastest-growing SaaS companies to share their insights on navigating the AI revolution while scaling multi-product strategies. As Hubert Palan, CEO at Productboard emphasized, “Don’t confuse AI-first with AI-only.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Should we care about AI infrastructure when building SaaS applications? Weinstein, and Managing Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, Aaref Hilaly, take the stage at SaaStr Annual to answer this question, plus what to expect with the future of AI. AI products will ultimately look and feel radically different from products today.

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

So we do love our SaaStr AI. And much more of the Top 10 Learnings from SaaStr’s own AI here: The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStr’s Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Know It’s not perfect, but in its first month alone, it’s answered over 6,000 chats and questions from the SaaStr community!

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2025

So we’ve rolled out an AI which is pretty epic. It’s live on SaaStr.com itself and you can also access it here and talk to AI Jason about any of 1000s and 1000s of B2B, sales, SaaS, VC, etc. topics: I asked AI Jason what the Top 10 SaaStr posts of all times are. ” Good choices, AI Jason!

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

How Long Will the AI Bubble Last? #3. 83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet #5. State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #3. CRO Confidential: “Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth” #4.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Dialpad’s Top Learnings Building Its Own AI Stack When it comes to AI implementation in SaaS, most companies are still figuring out whether to build or buy. But Dialpad has been quietly building their AI advantage for over 7 years, processing more than 8 billion minutes of conversations and hitting $300M ARR along the way.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2025

Cutting Through the Noise: Three Gen AI Pioneers Reshaping Enterprise Technology In a pivotal moment for generative AI, Vanessa Larco, partner at NEA, brought together three visionary CEOs convened at SaaStr Annual to share insights that are redefining the technological landscape.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The next evolution of AI in SaaS isn’t about better models – it’s about context and action. Here’s what Brandon Fu (CEO, Paragon) and Ethan Lee (Director of Product) shared at SaaStr AI Day about what’s actually working: 1. AI needs both context AND the ability to take action to deliver real value.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Top Posts of the Week: #1: Salesforce: Actually Were Going to Hire 2,000 Sales Execs Now To Sell AI #2: Gong: $100k Deals Take About 70 Days to Close #3: Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home. #4: appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Activant Capital brought together at SaaStr Annua l a group of break-out next-generation AI enhanced vertical software leaders: the CEOs from Owner.com, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay. At SaaStr Annual they shared their experiences and insights on implementing AI in vertical software companies. New restaurants up +31% in 1 month!

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

So will buyers really pay more for AI? On the one hand, many players in the support space have clearly been able to charge incrementally for AI-based issue resolution, from Intercom to Zendesk to Gorgias and more. HubSpot and Procore are taking their time in deciding how much if anything to charge extra for AI.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Thread AI’s founder and Palantir alum Maya Gonimah has cracked the code on enterprise AI implementation through their strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Here’s the AI playbook that’s actually working in production today. Trying to create entirely new AI-centric workflows.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This year, we’re partnering with Mayfield AI to bring you the AI Demo Stage and Pitch Competition to SaaStr Annual 2025: May 13-15 in the SF Bay Area. You could win $500K – $5M in funding from Mayfield AI Garage!! This is epic opportunity to showcase your AI Startup. That’s right. Apply by April 15th.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2025

After just a month of launching our own SaaStr AI (trained on a decade of content and hundreds of founders, speakers, and events), we’ve already had over 34,000 (!) conversations with our AI in just the first 30 days. With SaaStr AI, we’ve had almost 35,000 founder conversations in less than 30 days. But the reality?

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

We’ll do deep dives on all the SaaStr + AI Summit 2025 speakers soon! They’re: Drastically more efficient Skipping time-intensive processes that were once standard Questioning why organizations spend weeks on tasks AI can do in seconds As Levie observed while visiting a college class: “These kids don’t work like us.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2025

Navigating the AI Transformation Journey Calendly is taking a comprehensive approach to AI implementation across its entire customer experience – not just within the product itself. ” Bios: Steven Shu, Chief Product Officer at Calendly Steven brings over 8 years of AI expertise to Calendly. .”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We’re on the top 1% on Spotify overall and just added video there, and our YouTube has become a great stream of the best of the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI. State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #9. It’s been a great year for SaaStr videos and podcasts. appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

Codeium has emerged as one of the hottest AI startups, growing from 30 to 150 employees in just one year, with a valuation already exceeding $1 billion. Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2025

10 Ways AI Will Change Sales Forever. 10 Ways AI Is Going to Change Sales. The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia and Theory Ventures. #3. Top Posts: #1. Its Already Happening, In Fact. #2. The #1 Thing That Makes Enterprise Customers See Value: A Great Dashboard #3. For Real: Live Workshop Wednesday #2.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2025

2025 SaaStr Annual + AI Summit is THIS WEEK, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Explore the SaaStr AI Summit. This year, the SaaStr AI Summit is taking over two stages, featuring 100+ top AI startups demoing their products live. We’ve also got 20 of the top AI Ycombinator start-ups in a special demo pavillion.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2025

AI Should Kill Contact Me in 2025. 2: Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp #3: Crunchbase: 50% of VC Capital Went to SF Bay Last Year, Q4 Roared Back for Venture Capital #4: 8 Quick Ways to Get More High Quality Leads. Top SaaStr Posts: #1. Its Long Since Time. #2:

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2025

Dear SaaStr: How Much of a Threat is AI to Traditional B2B Startups Today? AI isn’t yet slowing down the big leaders in SaaS, from Salesforce to HubSpot to Workday. link] — Marc Benioff (@Benioff) March 29, 2025 In most cases, AI wont outright kill SaaS B2B startups now or even soon. In fact, they are embracing it.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

IBM’s $7B Bet on Vertical AI and What It Means for SaaS Founders. What’s emerging is a new paradigm: Vertical AI, where foundation models are specialized for specific industries and use cases. The WatsonX Platform Deep Dive What’s Actually Different Here WatsonX isn’t just another AI platform.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2024

SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin recently sat down with HubSpot Chairman and co-founder Brian Halligan , who shared valuable insights on the current state of SaaS, evolving board meeting formats, and how AI is reshaping the industry. Here are the key takeaways from part 1 of this interview.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2025

More than halfway onto the Cloud, but only just And importantly, The SaaStr + AI Era will drive spending on software overall to 4.0%+ of GDP: This is what we are all seeing and feeling, although at Thoma Bravo notes, it’s early. Morgan Stanley said recently AI spend is about 50% new, 50% repurposed from the rest of the IT budget.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So while AI for coding and software engineering has seen some of the most explosive start-ups, from Codeium to Loveable to Poolside to Claude and OpenAi’s own releases here and more, just as big if quieter has been the change to contact center and support. Can AI replace almost everything a human does today in customer support?

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

Has growth slowed while new AI entrants in your space are growting at epic rates? But … but … it’s too late to refound your start-up in the Age of AI. VCs especially are obsessed with AI-native startups. New pitch decks without an AI strategy aren’t even making it past associates. We are early.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2025

Dear SaaStr: How will Ai Change Sales in The Next 12 Months? Heres where I think its heading based on 100,000+ conversations already on SaaStr’s own AI , and my experience investing in so many contact center and post-sales leaders: 1. Were talking about 2545% of routine deals being closed by AI alone.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I do think so, but it’s been 12 years of blogging and 10+ year of events and more. All I had to do was write one blog post a day and one Quora answer, and magic happened. And there is also a quiet wave of apathy in B2B outside of AI. Does SaaStr still matter? Do you still matter? Does your app still matter?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Six months ago, security was the number one prohibition preventing businesses and software companies from buying AI. And this is true across all of software and AI. #3: 5: AI Isn’t Impacting Conversion Rate Companies can now deploy a sales copilot or utilize full SDR automation fairly quickly. It isn’t predictable.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2025

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!! 3) Generate high-quality training data that continuously improves AI performance.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

but also In high-growth AI-fueled spaces, massive competition as well. How many AI-first tools are Freemium? But what about the “cost of AI” many start-ups ask? And first, costs are falling so quickly in AI this year, it’s epic. Get better at using AI. OpenAI, Claude, DeepSeek, etc. Find a way.

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