SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

At Saastr Annual, we hosted an Enterprise panel of AI leaders to share their experience and knowledge to help others understand how big companies think about and leverage AI. While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Enterprises are looking for two big themes.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Software is better, and AI makes it more so. If you’re an asphalt company, you might not need AI to manage your projects. AI is where all the budget is right now. What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. We all know this, but we forget about it, especially when the Hot New Deal and the sales team’s wants and needs consumes all of management’s resources. ” — Ankit Sindhi, Founder, Spurt.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

An AI co-pilot to an existing product? ” If that works for your new product, sell it with your existing team. Time and time again, I see an exciting new product sort of stall out at launch when the buyer is a different ICP. The classic in the restaurant industry is guacamole at mexican restaurants.

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IT World

MARCH 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI today revealed the latest version of its computer program for natural language processing that powers ChatGPT , the wildly hyped chatbot with a fast-growing user base. To read this article in full, please click here

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Victor Riparbelli As co-founder and CEO of Synthesia , the world’s leading AI video creation platform, Victor Riparbelli is a force to be reckoned with in AI-powered video production. His investment portfolio spans fintech, biotech, and deep tech, reinforcing his passion for driving progress across industries.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. But, one day soon, you’ll marvel at all the things AI sneakily helped pull off your plate. Because when marketing meets AI , magic happens. AI researchers typically take this one step further, though.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. “AI is fancy statistics. But the reality is that all AI is fancy statistics.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? As new options roll out, keeping customer experiences seamless and continuous across all digital platforms grows is highly important. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. And whether they want to know more about security or scalability or automation or AI, the customers are really demanding that the vendors are coming to market with answers to these questions.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 26, 2023

OpenAI was one of many who attempted to build an AI tool to detect whether a given document was AI generated.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I’m here to report that AI ack made a big contribution to getting me unstuck, moving, and launched, with what feels like enough quality to be credible. Time will tell. With words! Could an art model produce an acceptably good logo?

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Don’t overextend your resources when testing new SaaS growth ideas. Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. Read all of Petri’s thoughts and observations on his blog . Anything less is not acceptable.

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SaaStr

APRIL 9, 2019

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. You know, earlier today we talked about creating a new category. Welcome Eric.

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Everything changed in 2023 as automation became the focus, and then again in 2024 as full AI agents were rolled out across its customer base. Their rollout of AI customer service agents across 500+ top brands offers valuable insights into the future of automated customer support. Here’s the story – and deep dive.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. Originally entering the market with a telematics product, their expanding suite now includes AI-driven safety and driver coaching tools. ” The only way for Samsara to help its customers sift nearly endless hours of GPS traces is to have AI.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

As Ott says, I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower … I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart, which, in turn, had a huge influence on the WorldWideWeb project.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. On Wednesday, March 27th, SaaStr is hosting AI Day, you can sign up for free at this link. The biggest thing on many of our minds is what the future of AI will be in B2B. It’s disruptive.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

Investors should immediately engage with the CTO to assess their technical capabilities and potential, as great CTOs can demonstrate their exceptional skills quickly. The Qualities of Great CTOs (00:15:54) To identify great CTOs, it may take interviewing 20 candidates.

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Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Twenty-two marketing experts took the stage to give new solutions to old challenges and actionable solutions to new ones—not to mention the food, people, games, swag and after-parties that made it the best CTAConf yet. What if we can use AI to deliver personal and relevant content tailored to an individual?” Speechless.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

CCO Canva CCO Stripe CCO Bill CTO Rubrik VP GTM OpenAI And Some of The Great New Summit VIPs: CMO Databricks CMO Insider SVPM Adyen CMO Brex CMO ActiveCampaign CMO CommerceTools CCO Sublime Security CCO Coursera CMO Workato VPCS Monday That’s about as good as it gets, folks! CEO Descript (SaaStr.ai). Summit 2025!

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 16, 2025

That’s why we’re thrilled to back Hammerspace and lead their $100m Series B, the company building a new kind of data platform - a parallel global file system with automated data orchestration for the AI and hybrid cloud era. Their CTO, Trond Myklebust is equally impressive.

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Scytale

MAY 14, 2025

Martijn Brandse CTO & Co-Founder of Byner Book a Demo What is the EU Cyber Resilience Act? The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a new law aimed at improving cybersecurity for all digital products sold in the European Union (EU). Keep it updated as new risks emerge, so you’re always ready for whatever comes your way.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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