SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Ron and his team tapped into their VC network, particularly a16z, to land early enterprise deals. And we found a lot of our big enterprise customers through that channel early days. But Ron quickly saw that bigger dollars were in the enterprise. They set up meetings with Fortune 500 CIOs. A common mistake founders make?

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

FastSpring continuously monitors transaction flow via machine learning models that are under the oversight of an enterprise-grade team of infrastructure and payments experts. Moreover, we have an enterprise-grade engineering team that has built and maintains a scalable and resilient cloud-native stack using AWS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

The number of patents filed in 2021 in Artificial Intelligence was 30x the number published six years earlier. We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. For those of you selling to Enterprise, they have experimental budgets that run out.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

The era of large language models (LLMs) is booming. In 2025, foundation models or generative AIs like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and open-source LLaMA are reshaping AI research, software development, and SaaS products. They differ in size, training data, capabilities, and openness. Key takeaways: Google Gemini 2.5

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Currently, there are 3 primary options available to implement AI in a company: Cloud or LLM providers: Large cloud providers, like AWS, Google, or Microsoft, all provide services to implement generative AI in a secure way in the cloud. They typically specialize in a specific business function or area.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ali Ghodsi, CEO and cofounder of Databricks, and Ben Horowitz, cofounder of a16z, explain the data wars happening inside and outside enterprises and how they could impact the evolution of LLMs. [00:38] 00:38] Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? [03:08] But we haven’t seen anybody with any traction in enterprise.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Raw silicon (chips like Nvidia bought in large quantities to build out infra to service upcoming demand). Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). When they started using large language models from OpenAI, the gross margin on the same product went to -100%! Top 5 Median: 14.5x

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IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Amazon Web Services has expanded the capabilities of its Amazon SageMaker machine learning toolkit to address a number of challenges that enterprises confront when trying to operationalize machine learning, from model organization, training, and optimization to monitoring the performance of models in production.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. So we said, “Hey, why don’t we do that with enterprise software?” That’s commonplace especially within enterprise SaaS, now.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

These days, he helms the marketing team at Tray.io, the leading general automation platform designed to help professionals integrate and automate their enterprise stacks. And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

I asked ChatGPT how many price changes AWS has made to S3 since it’s inception in 2006, and the answer it gave me was 65. Here’s what they said “F or Llama 2 and Llama 3, it's correct that the license restricts using any part of the Llama models, including the response outputs to train another AI model (LLM or otherwise).

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so, what happened is I was working on this program on artificial intelligence in medicine that had originated at Stanford under Ted Shortliffe, who was extremely well known, even back then, for building one of the first expert systems to diagnose blood-bacterial infections. Like, this is not anything like artificial intelligence.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Most interestingly, we’ll discuss how artificial intelligence has improved the operation of SaaS businesses over the years and what to expect next. Moreover, there were slower innovation cycles compared to the cloud-based SaaS model that we know now, thanks to the advent of smart neural networks. Mobile-friendly design.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in your own data center. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. ]

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Audacix

JUNE 9, 2023

AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution. AWS WAF is a great option for software and DevOps teams that are already using AWS services or looking for a scalable and flexible WAF solution.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

As an example, Intuit software operates on a subscription-based model, which users pay for on a monthly or annual basis. To simplify the procurement process, ISVs target enterprises looking for ISV partners. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Salesforce AppExchange). Consider Stax’s partner program.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Using LLMs to enhance these solutions will no longer be seen as innovative but will become the standard.” Just like machine learning before it disappeared in the background, AI will soon be so ubiquitous that it’s no longer a differentiator. In a better way too.”

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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. China Is Playing a Different Game Entirely The Models Youve Barely Heard Of: DeepSeek R1: 93% performance of OpenAI’s o3-mini at fraction of training cost Alibaba Qwen 2.5-Max: 300+ pages. So weve summarized it for B2B founders below!

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Pricing FullSession offers a free trial and three pricing plans Starter, Business, and Enterprise. Pricing Userpilots pricing is based on a monthly subscription model, starting at $299 monthly for the Starter plan. It also offers a Growth plan for $749 per month and an enterprise plan, with custom pricing available upon request.

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Full Session

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Pricing FullSession offers a free trial and three pricing plans Starter, Business, and Enterprise. Pricing Userpilots pricing is based on a monthly subscription model, starting at $299 monthly for the Starter plan. It also offers a Growth plan for $749 per month and an enterprise plan, with custom pricing available upon request.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Indian SaaS enterprises deal with a wide variety of clients across finance, education, healthcare, and wellness. This company uses IoT and machine learning to help businesses run more smoothly. Found in 2011 by Sanjoe Jose, Talview is one of the fastest hiring and recruitment software for enterprise employers. HackerRank.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. That is how we kind of think the future of enterprise technology is going to be built.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from siloed conversations to a streamlined and customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence. And we were definitely at the front of the pack for that, and we were able to have a strong distribution channel for the enterprise.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And so that is a really core aspect of it because as we’re watching enterprise companies around the world transition from a world of on-prem technology to cloud based technology. And somebody that has worked at large companies and big companies and also at small companies, also been an investor.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 3, 2025

The explosion of large language models (LLMs) has transformed SaaS platforms. Companies now weigh dozens of LLMs each with its own strengths when choosing AI to enhance products and automate workflows. 200K+ tokens High (cloud-optimized) Input: $3Output: $15 Mistral Large 2 84.0% Claude 4 Opus 88.8%

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And frankly, this is one that has taken a while to develop and we’ve all waited for this wonderful horizontal wave of enterprise apps to rival the consumer apps that we all have in our pockets and that we use frequently.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

After 6 years in the ML trenches at AWS and now Nebius, Alex Pathrushev has seen it all. About the Speakers Alex Pathrushev VP of AI/ML at Nebius, Alex brings over 6 years of deep ML expertise from leadership roles at AWS and Nebius. Want to know why some ML projects soar while others crash and burn? Want to dive deeper?

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 3, 2020

In enterprise sales, one often ends up negotiating with procurement. Kyle: Procurement is certainly getting more sophisticated as they see enterprise SaaS spending steadily increase with each passing year. Causal modeling and prediction systems are improving rapidly, driven by machine learning and related technologies.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

Each segment, whether SMB, mid-market, or enterprise, has its own nuances, but they all share a familiar core. Example: Outreachs shift to enterprise sales required an enterprise state of mind across all teams, emphasizing company-wide commitment rather than relying solely on experienced enterprise sellers.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 3, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) in SaaS Imagine logging into your SaaS platform, and instead of staring at static dashboards or manually running reports, your software tells you exactly whats happening and what to do next. Well, AI and machine learning (ML) are making it a reality.

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