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From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

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For startups looking to land their first big customers, Rons advice is simple: Leverage existing user communities. ” Building the Right Sales Motion In Databricks early days, the sales team was largely inside sales, selling to tech startups in Silicon Valley. Ron recalls. Solve for the highest-value pain points.

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RAG Explained: What Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation?

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cutting-edge approach in AI that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time information retrieval to produce more accurate and context-aware outputs. Think of a standard LLM as a very smart student who has learned a lot of general information.

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

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Whether you build enterprise SaaS or run a startup, understanding the global AI landscape (and its products and platforms) is key to staying ahead. Full-stack AI refers to the complete AI pipeline: from data collection and cleaning, through model training and MLOps, to deployment in applications. What is Full-Stack AI? In 2025, U.S.

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The Bar Has Gone Up: The New Era of HyperFunctional SaaS with Jason Lemkin

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Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. But Google Cloud, Azure, and GitLab are all benefiting and on fire. A small startup Jason invests in called MangoMint is coming up on $20M ARR with 100% growth for salon spa software. Crowdstrike is up and still grew 35%.

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GTM 140: How Microsoft Scaled from $600M to $5B: The Enterprise Playbook with Hayden Stafford

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Um, the goal was to bring all of those assets of Azure Modern Workplace, the business application side together, build a really powerful data set, um, all within that common data platform on Azure. Back then it was ML machine learning and. Just beginning his CEO career, uh, at, at Microsoft, I heard what the plan was.

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GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything — Microsoft’s VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith

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Ray Smith: Yeah, I think it’s two years ago, it was definitely termed the moonshot project because the whole thesis was the future of AI is not going to be just this chatty interface or LLM that we’re going to interact with. and then like, if I go to 2010 in the startup space. Live and work or run our businesses.

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Microsoft as a Mirror - What We Can Expect for SaaS in 2023

Tom Tunguz

We saw moderated consumption growth in Azure and lower-than-expected growth [elsewhere]. Segment Expected Growth Productivity 12% Office Commercial 6% Office On-Premise -25% LinkedIn 5% Dynamics 13% Intelligent Cloud 18% Azure 26% Server -3% Services -3% 2. At some point, the optimizations will end.

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