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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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

but also In high-growth AI-fueled spaces, massive competition as well. How many AI-first tools are Freemium? Let’s ask them: ChatGPT says 70% Deepseek says 40%-60% Claude says 60%-70% If you are building a direct competitor to ChatGPT, you probably have to copy their pricing model, like DeepSeek. are 3 big examples.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

So a lot of AI is real … a bunch of it is OK … and a bunch is still a work in progress. So I wanted to know — how many of us really use ChatGPT for work? It turns out, 69% of you use ChatGPT either every day or several times a week. And just 8% of you never use ChatGPT at work. And how often?

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Hear the latest insights on AI from leading investor and SaaStr fan-fave, Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures. LLMs are transforming the way people use software, and these AI and data-driven companies share first-hand how they’re seeing this change take place. He was just using ChatGPT to generate Python code.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2023

10+ Actionable Things You Can Do To Scale Faster In The Early Days The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work The Challenge with SMB SaaS: High Growth Can Only Mask High Churn For Just So Long (Updated) Dear SaaStr: My Top Sales Rep Made $600,000 a Year — And Just Quit! What Happened?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2023

Over the past week, I put ChatGPT to the test, enlisting it as copy-editor for a forthcoming blog post. ChatGPT builds sentences word-by-word, by starting with one word, then predicting the next one. Like Grammarly, ChatGPT absolves the writer of grammatical labors. No rhetoric. No similes, alliteration, zeugmas, or pleonasms.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2023

I asked ChatGPT about the numbers 1 & 4. I’m working with ProductBoard to understand how different B2B startups are planning to leverage AI with a survey. Which one is bigger? Sometimes, 1 was bigger. Othertimes, 4 was bigger. This is called a non-deterministic or stochastic answer. The answers have inconsistent logic.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2023

Every company will be an AI company. Every startup needs an AI strategy - not just for fundraising or press appeal. ChatGPT & Midjourney have educated hundreds of millions that we can & should expect more from software. User expectations have changed. Now those teeming masses will demand it.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 2, 2024

In the past, the bigger the AI model, the better the performance. This is a chart of many recent AI models’ performance according to a broadly accepted benchmark called MMLU. 1 MMLU measures the performance of an AI model compared to a high school student. OpenAI Model Release Date Parameters, B MMLU GPT2 2/14/19 1.5

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

Series A Success Strategies for 2025 Ethan shared several critical strategies for founders approaching Series A: Understand your “why” : Clearly articulate why you’re raising capital and what you’ll do with it beyond simply “it’s time for the next round.”

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 10, 2025

AI is this generation’s graphing calculator. As a tutor creating lessons & a personalized teacher answering questions to meet a student, AI improves higher-order thinking materially. This analysis supports the intuition behind AI as a personal Socrates. The hidden game of Snake. is considered a medium sized effect.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

It’s so funny how many people are concerned about ChatGPT and Bard. 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. But first, let’s go over what these AI tools really mean for marketers.

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day, Siqi Chen, founder, and CEO of Runway , discussed his belief of why every role will become a prompt engineering role, along with some no-code AI tips showing how to build products without knowing how to code. AI is a force multiplier for human capital. “I 3 Ways Runway Uses AI Prompts 1.

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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. Sure – the rise of ChatGPT has gone mainstream for consumers and smaller companies, but what about the big guys?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

The arrival of ChatGPT just eight weeks ago was a watershed moment. Suddenly it seemed that generative AI might transform industries from education to marketing. ChatGPT suffers from “hallucinations” – confidently providing incorrect information.

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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. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? If you’re going to do AI, you should do so thoughtfully.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Together with Abhay Parasnis, founder and CEO of Typeface, they chat about what it looks like to be a builder at the forefront of Generative AI. Then, 7-8 years ago, we had the early innings of AI — The first automation of how to drive more intelligence. When Typeface began 15 months ago, it was before ChatGPT was released.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2024

Sure enough, ChatGPT answers the question : This pseudocode blends the structured queries of data analysis with the unstructured data contained in a classic novel. ” Just as ChatGPT summarized the essence of Moby Dick, AI easily summarizes the themes of 10 customer conversations - or 100.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

💡 Related reading : 6 Social Media Analytics and Reporting Tips for Becoming a Data-Savvy Marketer 5: Use AI to refine your social media captions AI is a big part of work today everywhere and the digital marketing world is no exception. Read more about how we use AI at Buffer to strike the balance between automation and human.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2023

When ChatGPT finds formatting foibles in the data, it fixes them. Here’s the video of my session with ChatGPT. Then I tried to replicate it using ChatGPT3’s Code Interpreter feature & I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating it, most of the time waiting for the computer (see video at the end of the post).

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

AI in the Real World AI has burst on the scene, and everyone’s rushing to add a ChatGPT-like thing to their product. Of course, when you have a paradigm shift of an old version and new version, before the internet and after the internet, before AI and after AI, things eventually get folded down into the main stack.

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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. G2 is taking these search capabilities a step further with generative AI. Why ChatGPT and not some other language model? Zero cost of sale.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I use ChatGPT , Slack , Gong , 1SE , Midjourney , and Webflow , of course. #2. This last year ChatGPT has been my best new app. #3. During her tenure she also led Dropbox’s AI strategy, including the acquisition of search startup Command E. This week we have Rachel Wolan, CPO at Webflow! #1.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. GPT, Llama).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. More on what’s behind the spike in AI companionship below.)

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

Enough With the AI Job Applications Sure, use ChatGPT to improve your grammar. But everyone can see the generic job application written by ChatGPT. So how do you get those jobs? A few perhaps obvious points, that still, I see 98/100 candidates failing / not doing: #1. It’s zero effort and no one wants to hire those candidates.

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IT World

APRIL 26, 2023

OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed firm behind the groundbreaking ChatGPT generative AI system, announced this week that it would allow users to turn off the chat history feature for its flagship chatbot, in what’s being seen as a partial answer to critics concerned about the security of data provided to ChatGPT.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

It’s been 9 months since ChatGPT was released and 7 months since it became the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million monthly active users , ushering in a new era of generative AI. But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? Here are our top 6 takeaways.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

In some ways, Elastic may be under some of the most theoretical threats of all from ChatGPT and the like. After all, ChatGPT is the first threat in search in many ways. But it seems to be doing just fine, and in fact has embraced AI. It send the stock price up 112% over the past 12 months! 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 4, 2023

Meet ChatGPT. Launched by OpenAI in November of 2022, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot that you can ask pretty much anything. Content creators need all the help they can get – and they can find it in AI. Lately, when I need ideas for a piece of content, no matter what it is, I turn to ChatGPT or Lex.

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IT World

MARCH 2, 2023

OpenAI has made available APIs for ChatGPT and the company’s AI-powered transcription and translation service Whisper. These APIs will help businesses to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their conversation platforms and will be substantially cheaper than using the company’s existing language model.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Editor’s note: AI is no longer some hypothetical future in sales — it’s here now. AI isn’t going to take your sales job. In December 2022, Authority Hacker podcast hosts Gael Breton and Mark Webster predicted the rise of a new kind of knowledge worker: people who can manipulate AI tools to get exactly what they want.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Kyle shares his insights on the inevitability of PLG in an AI-driven future and reveals must-try tactics to accelerate growth using a PLG approach. Attention’s AI-powered call recording platform ensures that your deals are executed flawlessly. 9:10) Will the vast majority of software companies have a PLG motion in the future?

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

And we’re even seeing a bit of renaissance here again, as many try to build apps on ChatGPT and OpenAI themselves instead of through an established, pre-AI vendor. Internal IT teams sometimes think they can built it themselves. And perhaps they can — today. But then they’d have to maintain it. And iterate on it.

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