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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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive, buttoned-up “AI Update,” covering all this month’s AI developments. But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.”

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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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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

John Gruber chimed in shortly after with a nice follow up, “ Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech ,” that calls out further commentary by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose.) Alarm over AI isn’t something new. Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

R&D spend is the lifeblood of technology companies—all the more so as companies race to build and incorporate AI into their products to remain competitive. In typical market conditions, new customers may be clamoring for new features. Without a product that provides unique value to customers, nothing else matters.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. The article highlights the potential for Latin American startups to utilize AI to improve efficiency, generate global innovation and economy, and expand internationally.

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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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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? 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. Very rarely, these technologies also let you do things you’d never considered possible. Remember printed memos ?).

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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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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. In those moments, I would always go back to my desk and start looking for a new job, it’s completely demoralizing.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Knowing that CFO transformation is one of my favorite subjects (having run a planning company for six years) the folks at Sage invited me to moderate a set of panels at their San Francisco and New York media events this week. Sage CTO Aaron Harris even helped out with a few questions after giving his presentation that helped tee-up the panel.

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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

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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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Bai took on a number of senior positions – Director of HR and Director of Marketing at Alibaba, as well as Chief Marketing Officer of Jiangsu Ju Teng Network Technology. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Kandy Yeung.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. So the conversation is changing.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

It felt like the rate of change in the generative AI space is picking up yet again this week. Another innovation explosion appears to be underway; already Llama 2 derived models are near the top of the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard , and new Llama stories are still on the first page of Hacker News.

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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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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

As the numbers of tech-based companies grow in number, there is a crucial point to note – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is also growing. They are looking at AI to handle certain operations within the organization. For most of these companies, AI is a part of their core. And it is where the discussion started.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Technology, for a long time, has been incredibly capable. Short on time?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

OpenAI is constantly firehosing us with new capabilities. I’ve been involved in technology for five decades, which coincidentally is just about how long OCR—optical character recognition—has been available for personal use. It’s tough to keep up with the announcements alone.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. He writes on technology, enterprise, marketing, collaboration, and work culture. Brad Feld is an active investor in the leading technology and software space. Alex Turnbull. Brian Halligan. Chris Orlob.

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Unbounce

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As we explored new ways to help you convert more, Unbounce kept running up into the limitations of A/B testing. Powered by AI, Smart Traffic automatically optimizes your landing pages by sending each and every visitor to a page variant where they’re most likely to convert. For all its good, A/B testing has a fatal flaw.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

After regenerating the image 18 times -and getting pretty much the same result every time – I gave up… According to AI, the ‘tech CEO’ is young, white, and male. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Most recently Yousuf was the CIO & VP of Customer Success @ Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise providing automatic resolution of IT issues. Most recently, Yousuf was the CIO and VP of Customer Success at Moveworks, the advanced AI built for enterprise, providing automatic resolution of IT issues.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal.

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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

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

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re a full-stack technology-powered brokerage helping usher in the hybrid workplace and the office of the future. Justin Bedecarre: And it’s a really inspirational thing to add technology and innovation to the workplace, how you find space, how you manage space, and build the office of the future.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. Success without College [2:46].

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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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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The New Sales is about Relationships. The average salesman is dead because AI is killing — has already killed — him. With insanely rapid advances in technology, AI is replacing more and more SDRs’ jobs. What can AI still not do? AI’s potential is in augmentation, not automation. so you never shut it down.

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