SaaStr

MAY 25, 2025

– RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai AI has changed the competitive landscape in almost every cases.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

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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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2025

Every year, we work with 150+ top sponsors and partners for SaaStr AI Summit + Europe, mostly marketing leaders. year average tenure) and CTOs (3.7 Thanks to new data from Pave analyzing 14,000 executives across their compensation database, we finally have the numbers. We see this every year at SaaStr itself. And honestly?

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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

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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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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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If you have the CEO, CTO, some executive chat through, here’s the big picture of the company. Why are you looking for a new job? Let’s find a new shirt. Yeah, I think especially now with AI, there so many garbage messages and people are so tired of being solicited to and sold to and advertised to all the time.

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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

JUNE 12, 2025

We’ve been saying for months that speed is the new moat in SaaS Sales with the advent of AI, and yeah, that’s still 100% true. AI hasn’t just changed how we prep for sales calls or conduct discovery. These are the 5 ways AI has already changed SaaS sales forever. Feel the difference?

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

The AI-powered insights have helped us identify and resolve issues faster, resulting in stellar uptime and increased customer satisfaction for Fortune 500 customers.” Additionally, it supports third-party analytics tools such as Datadog, Splunk , and New Relic Insights, enabling a comprehensive and unified monitoring process.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2025

Just vibe coding with AI until I have something I can actually sell. AI development is the future!” Just pure, unfiltered AI-assisted development at industrial scale. No coding it myself. In that context, $8,000/month isn’t financial ruin – it’s a bargain. Stage 4: My Current Reality 📅 First 3.5

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Will you need to add arbitrary new pages?

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

My live experience at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco could be summarized as “extremely intense.” I hope these notes help you get a sense of the energy, trends, and ideas shaping the future of AI and AI Engineering. Excellent overview of the state of AI, the pace of progress, trends.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

As I dig in to recap what I saw and learned at the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025 in San Francisco , I was forced to face my failure to write consistently – a failure that dates back almost exactly a year, to June 12, 2024. Thinking back on it, I see two causes. I had “gotta write about that!!”

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

If you missed GTM 134, check it out here: Build your AI Outbound Machine with ChatGPT | Jordan Crawford Highlights: 05:03 When to hire your first sales reps. You know, you mentioned people that are constantly having new contextual experiences, high intensity, high in curiosity, like. 13:17 Characteristics of top early-stage sales reps.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. And if this description doesn’t resonate with Mark, he can ask for a new one, while providing feedback. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Suddenly it seemed that generative AI might transform industries from education to marketing. ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom. Introducing our AI-powered beta features Summarize The first feature we built is a conversation summarization tool. Great stuff!”

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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

JULY 2, 2025

🚨 Microsoft's 2025 strategy in numbers: ❌ 15,300+ employees laid off (7% of workforce) YTD: •9,000 cuts announced July 2 •6,000 cuts in May •300+ cuts in June •Performance cuts in January •and only halfway through year 💰 $80 billion invested in AI infrastructure 40%… pic.twitter.com/LJVfwStpW9 — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨

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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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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Customers are excited about new architectures that significantly reduce cost.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

“How World-Class Product Teams Are Winning in the AI Era” is one of the talks at this year’s Product Drive Summit. Delivered by Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, it tackles the challenges and opportunities AI-revolution poses for product teams. AI enables product teams to achieve more with fewer resources. Did you know?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Does the acceleration in AI make your SaaS company more or less defensible? Sometimes, an AI feature is just another brick in the wall (but one that improves your product) Last week, I looked into the question if AI is a platform shift as disruptive as the move from on-premise to the Cloud.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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