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 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. If they aren’t sure how to integrate AI into your product, ask if you need a new CTO. What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? Let’s jump right in.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Apart from building successful companies, these entrepreneurs are taking it a step further – rewriting the rules of business and disrupting traditional models. Thanks to him, businesses can easily create and scale professional-quality videos in 50+ languages.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

I am the CEO of a company called Woven, which is an intelligent calendar for busy professionals, and I have spent my entire career focused on the productivity of others. But when you don’t have a lot of data, that puts a lot more emphasis on the heuristics or on the intelligence of the algorithms.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Who’s here on a CEO or more on a business hat SaaS? Who started their business more than three, four years ago? Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. The business environment and adoption. Raise your hand. A lot of that as well. One more question.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. As CTO of Clearent by Xplor, he helped grow its transaction processing from $2 billion to over $20 billion annually. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Table of Contents. In the 1990s, Web 1.0 Where Web 2.0

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. Today, many people would probably say [the AI model] is largely the product.

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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? Social media, mobile apps, in-app ads, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and more have promised to help us put experience at the forefront. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. Charlie Gerard is the author of a book about practical Machine Learning in JavaScript and writes on her Twitter account primarily about these topics. ReactJS frontend developer at Facebook 311.9K

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? We started with users because ultimately data is really the foundation on which our entire business is built. Or how do you make money?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Schank was “ a foundational pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and learning sciences ,” truly one of the original AI visionaries. How should we rethink our decision-making, how we run our businesses? When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO? We have to embed intelligence across every part of our technology and our stack.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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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. Even for the impatient, though, there’s a minimum quality bar to hit if you want a credible business footprint. I started out skeptical of ChatGPT , the “word AI,” and its Large Language Model (LLM) brethren.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Here’s how Morten Primdahl, co-founder & former CTO of Zendesk, put it in a recent conversation: “For someone like me who prefers to build business logic, using GPT is no more of a moat than using MySQL is. But many AI features will be bricks in your fortress, not something that greatly expands your moat, and again, that’s OK.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from solid conversations to a streamlined and customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence. Thanks for coming.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Gorgias developed an “Auto QA” system that uses large language models to analyze customer reactions, evaluating sentiment, satisfaction, and resolution. Different channels (email vs. chat) needed specialized approaches, with chat requiring faster, lighter models to meet latency requirements.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. I define the role of an analyst as someone who uses data to help identify and communicate business opportunities, and drive decisions for teams.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs. The Scary Part: Energy consumption is exploding.

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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. While some say it is not necessary, some say it brings new perspectives towards AI. You can relax, as of now, there are not many businesses with the job title.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

And when you look under the Products menu, you see: Products / Training Products / Inference And finally, the language of Mosaic’s announcement post for MPT-30B is telling as well: [Mosaic Logo] Foundation Series MPT-30B Open-source LLM. Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people. Commercially licensed. More Powerful.

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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. Your prospects are already experiencing this new reality with companies like Perplexity. It’s here. The question is whether you’re leading it or getting left behind. And honestly?

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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. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? You can lose deals to feature gaps, and Jason has seen rampant loss of business due to not having feature parody.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Knowing these trends will help you gain a competitive advantage and stay ahead of the pack in your business decisions. Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. He has been instrumental in the growth of over 300 SaaS businesses.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. AI acceleration Looking at March AI news from high above, what stands out to me is acceleration, possibly even exponential acceleration. Check out this example from the GPT-4 announcement : How crazy is that?

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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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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. Even if your business gets boatloads of traffic and can sustain long test durations, optimizing with A/B testing helps you serve up a single landing page that appeals to as many visitors as possible. Looking to get wild?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. What to tackle first as a new leader.

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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. Working With My ChatGPT Intern 2023-05-29 Yesterday was a new record. Really, OpenAI?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

Building a business in Europe [14:37]. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound, and even followup sales campaigns faster using over one billion rows of performance data across 75 industries. We’re on iTunes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

I used to be a CTO and operator, co-founder of a SaaS start up. And something of insight so we are New York based, global venture and equity investor. There’s so many teams out there who are great people, but maybe their business hasn’t taken off the ground that well. Is their values fit?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Passion and dedication of the founder and the business model’s distribution potential are key points for investment models. The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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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. This year’s theme was “The Marketing Revolution” in response to the fact that marketing has changed. Speechless.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

. “The real advances in SEO come from people trying things out and sharing them with the community” Alexa: You mentioned trial and error there and given that SEO is really a new discipline, how has trial and error helped you be at the forefront of a discipline that has emerged within your career span? Kevin: Absolutely.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

pre-seed, seed, seed-plus [1]) and one of the things I’ve noticed is that many founders cannot clearly, succinctly, and confidently answer some basic questions about their businesses. ” I’m admittedly fanatical about this, but I want to know what it says on the target buyer’s business card [3]. Completeness.

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