SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2024

Where SaaS Meets AI LIVE TODAY! SaaStr AI Day is starting soon and will be live streaming today! Use the links below at each session’s designated time to tune-in live and join the Zoom session room. Or you can also watch the livestreams on the SaaStr YouTube Channel. Speaker: Brian Thomas, CPO @ Customer.io

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Building off the popularity of our AI Day at last September’s SaaStr Annual , we’re bringing it back online this March on Wednesday, March 27th for a completely live, digital event that will bring the global SaaStr community together with the brightest innovators in Artificial Intelligence for a day of digital content.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

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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.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. That many of the standard assumptions and ways of doing SaaS will change a lot. He believes we’re rapidly approaching that new world where anyone can build a great SaaS product. What does that mean?

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

As the kickoff to our first fully digital SaaStr AI Day, Jennifer Tejada , the CEO of PagerDuty, chatted with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, about navigating the shift to Generative AI and what Artificial Intelligence in SaaS might look like in the next 6 months, as well as years to come. How do you go long in SaaS?

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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. AI expertise might take a couple hundred top AI researchers to train them.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

The public markets are up overall, but multiples aren’t, and overall growth in public SaaS companies has slowed. It shouldn’t be any easier to raise a Series A, outside of AI Hype deals. And the AI Premium is 3x. And it hasn’t gotten any easier since last year. This just makes sense. the growth.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Over 80% of investor money is in AI. Why is that?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2024

Selling software will evolve to selling agents , AI that acts on behalf of users. In a sense, selling AI agents is analogous to category creation. Just as these companies dreamt new ways of working & evangelized the future, AI agent startups must do the same for their buyers.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last week at Saastr 2023, I had the privilege of hosting a panel with Maggie Hott , GTM leader at OpenAI, Sharon Zhou , cofounder & CEO of Lamini, & Jordan Tigani , founder & CEO of MotherDuck talking about the implications of AI for the software industry broadly. Second, education represents a huge opportunity for AI.

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User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing how SaaS product teams work by increasing efficiency and productivity, reducing costs, and most importantly, facilitating data-driven decision-making. In this article, we look at how you can use AI to gain in-depth customer insights and how to leverage them to improve the product.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Generative AI has changed how tech companies do business. companies use AI in their operations and the number of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450% since 2013. In 2023, over 26% of investments in American startups were directed toward AI-related companies. This includes the SaaS industry too. About 73% of U.S.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Box CEO and Co-Founder Aaron Levie to talk about what’s new at Box, SaaS fatigue, hiring a new COO, operating margins and efficiency, the future of AI, and what to expect for 2024. The normal choice is to tell a customer to pay for this AI thing, and it’s separate.

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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. era, where SaaS was really about the system of record.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2024

As a SaaS veteran who built and sold a software company for nine figures, invested in startups since 2013, 10x-ing his fund, and continues to build a powerhouse community of SaaStr fans, he offers some hot takes on the communities’ burning questions. The average public SaaS company is twice as efficient. Let’s start with the meta. “I

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2023

On November 8th, I’ll share my 10 Top Trends in Data & AI at the IMPACT Summit. SaaS applications use the cloud data warehouse as a reading & writing database. Last year, I covered 9 topics: Cloud data warehouses will process 75% of workloads by 2024. Metrics layers unify the data stack. Notebooks win 20% of Excel users.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2024

On the first episode of the Angles and Insight podcast, SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Zapier CEO Wade Foster about the future of B2B SaaS in 2024 and beyond. walled gardens” The practical realities vs. the hype around AI As everyone here at SaaStr knows, Jason sold his first company, Echosign, for $400M.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 15, 2024

Will you be prepared for the SaaS AI revolution? More than 70% of SaaS companies are increasing their spending on AI, according to studies. Therefore, it’s not a matter of whether AI will revolutionize your sector; rather, it’s a matter of how you’ll use AI to reinforce your own SaaS product.

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2024

So the #2 topic in SaaS today is probably profitability and efficiency. #1 ARR: SMB leader HubSpot Enterprise vertical SaaS leader Veeva And collaboration leader DropBox All at the same ARR, but with very different growth profiles, and profitabilty. But profitability is a close second. And the message to founders is confusing.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Lower interest rates lead to SaaS multiple reflation, likely during 2H’24 It’s not clear how truly tight the link is between interest rates and SaaS multiples, but the overall correlation is clear. Lower inflation and the fed lowering interest rates should lead to an expansion of SaaS multiples.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Each year, tens of thousands of SaaS fans attend SaaStr Annual. 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. Should you sprinkle it in to compete?

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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. David George: Sure.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

The smart revolution has come – AI is significantly changing the way we live our daily lives. What did SaaS look like before smart technologies? How has AI changed SaaS businesses? What does the future hold for SaaS? What are the possible challenges of implementing AI in SaaS?

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

Struggling to find a job in SaaS today? But on the other hand … literally almost every SaaS company I know doing even reasonably well is hiring. So finding a job may be 5x harder than 2021, but there are still a vast number of unfilled roles at just about every good or great SaaS company. Here’s the thing. Do it for real.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The last 10 years have seen some paradigm-shifting evolutions in Fintech SaaS technology. Now, technologies like Causal AI are at the forefront of Fintech SaaS. In this blog, we’re diving into why Causal AI is so compelling for Fintech Saas—covering key benefits, use cases, and real-world case studies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 25, 2023

It’s difficult for AI experts to keep up with everything new being published, and even harder for beginners to know where to start. So, in this post, we’re … The post AI Canon appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Source: Midjourney Research in artificial intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

Subscribe now Data + Compute = AI Two of the largest data companies in the world, Snowflake and Databricks, held their annual conferences this week. To truly take advantage of AI, enterprises need organized data in the cloud. The challenge is probabilistic answers don’t work for true enterprise specific AI.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AI is about to bring a similar revolution to healthcare. trillion dollar American healthcare industry will be AI-driven. AI will drive drug discovery , proposing medicines not yet dreamed up by man. AI will play a key role in diagnosis, helping humans know what’s wrong sooner so they can get access to life-saving treatments.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the latest episode of our What’s New series, Founder and CEO at Secureframe, Shrav Mehta, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Secureframe, a rising SOC-2 and compliance software company breaking out in SaaS. Shrav sees security and AI as the two biggest faces in software for the next decade.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 14, 2024

Holly Chen is the Managing Partner of ExponentialX, a Marketing and Growth Advisory Collective for high-growth SaaS startups, advising companies like Miro, Loom, ServiceNow, Appsflyer in their growth journeys. The post GTM 94: Mastering Branding, Pricing, and Customer Success for AI Startups with Holly Chen appeared first on GTMnow.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2023

There are 4 questions a startup should ask themselves about building a startup that uses generative AI. The narrative is : AI is a massive platform change that Goldman Sachs projects will increase GDP 300x more than the PC. There are 4 questions startups should ask themselves about building with generative AI. The video is here.

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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. Now, there are at least 100k verified SaaS apps on G2, which is huge. How do I discover the SaaS products I need? How do I trust them?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Speed and Adaptability Will Define the B2B SaaS Winners in the Generative AI (R)evolution Smaller species tend to have shorter lifespans and faster reproductive cycles and can therefore adapt much faster to changes in the environment. To say there’s no shortage of opinions on ChatGPT and the future of AI would be an understatement.

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

SaaS buying has changed. As buyers grapple with expanding technology, higher prices, and a need for efficiency, SaaS companies need to deliver what their audience is looking for to win in the market. SaaS Market Snapshot In Q1 of 2023, Vendr gathered data on SaaS Spending and yielded some pretty interesting results.

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