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One Thing is Clear: AI Makes a Lot of Business Software Look Awfully Expensive Today. Is Deflation Coming?

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But it could soon turn deflationary. If every vendor includes 100 AI Agents for the same price as before. That do 10x as much. The post One Thing is Clear: AI Makes a Lot of Business Software Look Awfully Expensive Today. Is Deflation Coming? appeared first on SaaStr.

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A Founder’s Guide to Building and Scaling Marketing Channels: Lessons from Datadog’s CMO and First Marketing Hire

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Marketing leaders face crushing expectations from all sides: Management wants leads Sales needs collateral Product needs launches The team wants career growth The instinct is to spread your resources across everything: blogging, analyst relations, PR, events, SEO, paid search, content marketing, and more.

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5 Great SaaStr Sessions with Databricks’ CEO, CMO, GM, VPP and VPS!

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“Lessons Learned in Scaling Databricks, AWS, VMWare and More” with Databrick’s SVP and GM Ed Lenta #3. So with Databricks announcing the largest VC round ever this week, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the top SaaStr sessions and podcasts with Databricks’ founders and top execs: #1.

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How Anthropic Rocketed to $4B ARR — And Why Your B2B Playbook May Already Be Obsolete

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Here’s why this matters: Token intensity : Code generation consumes 10-50x more tokens than typical chat Enterprise necessity : Companies can’t avoid automating development workflows Stickiness : Once integrated into developer workflows, switching costs are massive Major customers like Sourcegraph, GitLab, Replit, and Bridgewater Associates (..)

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10 Things Startups Get Wrong Selling to Developers and Engineers (from the CRO Who Scaled Databricks from

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Databricks used consumption-based pricing because that’s what AWS, Google, and Microsoft used—it made sense to customers who were already buying cloud services that way. ” Best Practice: Follow industry standards where possible.

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Palantir’s +79% vs Bill’s -43%: The AI Divide That Defined SaaS Performance in 1H’25

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Amplitude (AMPL): +20% YTD Q1 2025 revenue reached $80 million (10% YoY growth) with ARR of $320 million (12% YoY), demonstrating return to double-digit growth Board approved first-ever $50 million share repurchase program to capitalize on stock price dislocations and manage dilution Strategic partnerships with Twilio Segment and AWS expanding enterprise (..)

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Databricks Just Caught Snowflake at $3.7B ARR. Here’s How They Did It (And What’s Next)

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What This Means for the Market For Competitors : Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all scrambling to respond. Platform Effects Are Stronger Than Ever When customers use 6+ Databricks products, they’re not just buying software—they’re adopting an entire data architecture. The switching costs become astronomical.

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