SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it! With 1:1 Meet-a-VC matchmaking and curated sessions, youll have unparalleled access to the capital you need to scale. From seasoned founders to rising stars, every session is handpicked to deliver actionable insights and real-world strategies to help you scale faster.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2025

They had: The right hardware architecture (parallel processing) The dominant software ecosystem (CUDA) Strong relationships with researchers and enterprises Manufacturing scale and expertise The B2B Parallel : Companies like Zoom were ready when remote work exploded, or how Shopify was positioned for the e-commerce boom.

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SaaStr

JULY 23, 2025

Competitive Response from Incumbents Potential Disruptors : Microsoft integrating vibe coding into Power Platform/Office suite Google developing natural language interface for Google Cloud Amazon building vibe coding capabilities into AWS Adobe creating AI-native design-to-code workflows Risk Assessment : High impact, high probability.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. If you wanted to scale users and growth, you needed to scale a physical data infrastructure footprint. ” This used to be how companies scaled! It wasn’t very elastic. What does this mean?

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 17, 2025

And no, this wasn’t all because of leap year last year (that would only account for a ~3% delta at most) The Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) also declined net new adds year over year, but not by as much. Net new ARR added was down 28% from Q1 last year. Let’s get into some high level data.

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FastSpring

APRIL 29, 2025

When payment partners fail to adapt to player demand and scale quickly, players leave your web shop empty handed, creating dissatisfaction that could have been prevented. We empower you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and more.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

also leads in AI funding: 2024 saw $109.1 This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). leads in innovation, it also drives conversations on AI safety and ethics.)

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

For example, machine learning models can forecast sales, optimize pricing, and evaluate investment scenarios in real time. Personalized Strategy: Marketing and sales use AI to segment customers and tailor campaigns, improving ROI and conversion rates. AI systems can process vast datasets and spot trends or risks that humans might miss.

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Teamgate

JUNE 27, 2025

Integrations +1 725-254-2694 Start Free Trial Login Log in Sign up REQUEST A DEMO --> Sales Management Is CHAMP The New BANT? Integrations +1 725-254-2694 Start Free Trial Login Log in Sign up REQUEST A DEMO --> Sales Management Is CHAMP The New BANT? 67% of sales are lost due to poor lead qualification.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Integrations +1 725-254-2694 Start Free Trial Login Log in Sign up REQUEST A DEMO --> Sales Management Top Tools for Monitoring API Performance Chase Horn June 11, 2025 Explore the top API monitoring tools that enhance performance, reduce downtime, and support scalable operations for businesses of all sizes.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 21, 2025

Lever Best ATS + CRM for Scaling Enterprises Pricing: Key Features: 10. All the leading platforms reviewed below like Workable, Greenhouse, and Breezy HR are SaaS solutions that serve companies globally with multi-language support and compliance features (e.g., Companies might need admin time to customize it to their processes.

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Frontegg

JUNE 23, 2025

These cloud-based solutions often come with complex configurations that may lead to security vulnerabilities. These missteps often stem from the complexity of cloud services and the pace of deployment, leading to gaps in security. This can lead to both accidental and malicious changes that compromise security.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Conversion funnel analysis: Detect patterns that lead to user drop-offs and test new ideas to optimize conversion rates. Drive Revenue Growth With FullSession Learn how to visualize and improve each step in your sales or marketing funnel. Integrations PostHog works well with Kafka, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, Tableau, and Looker.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SaaS Payments 52

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. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2% The Next 2.6B

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

ARR data cloud leader is adapting to AI disruption, the evolution of technical sales, and what it really takes to build strategic partnerships that scale. This creates hyper-aligned incentives where sales success is measured by use case creation, not deal size. ” This creates a fundamental shift in how sales teams operate.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Scalability and security Built to scale with your business, with enterprise-grade security measures to protect your data. Best for: Sales and marketing teams who need customer engagement software to proactively interact with leads and customers, provide real-time support, and build stronger customer relationships.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 7, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Fred Viet serves as the Chief Sales Officer at Aircall, overseeing global sales and playing a key role in scaling the company’s reach over the last four years. The first one, I know my sales cycle.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

They work with startups and scaling businesses to help take HR off your plate, so you can stay focused on building product, growing revenue, and hiring great people – the go-to-market engine. Which means you have to lead with the intelligence because the tools, right? And kinda leading through cycles. Mike Walrath: Yeah.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

That’s not being fair though; we need major players like MS who can deliver necessary, massive-scale platforms, and they need to flog the sexy bits so they can sell the boring ones; no margin, no mission, as they say. It’s also not fair in that, as with Microsoft, Barth and AWS actually had interesting things to show off.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. Over the years, he built and scaled a world-class sales organization, creating a team that generated hundreds of millions in revenue. seller, head of sales, or commercial cofounder).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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Technical Review Scale multi-cloud Kubernetes Scaling 269

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2023

cons is closer to 16% growth — Jordan Novet (@jordannovet) April 13, 2023 So Amazon came out with its latest annual shareholder letter and it was even more cautious on AWS growth than I was expected. AWS said they weren’t going to push folks to sign punitivate contracts, or block downgrades, etc. Lower than I predicted.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The budgets are >still< there, but they're harder to access, so sales needs to understand what your buyer's true goals are for next year and align with it. A similar story with arguably the #1 public leader in next-generation sales tools. So a great one to look at if you sell into sales. More on that here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 2, 2021

Examples include AWS, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. This early phase is where you’re still looking for that perfect product-market fit and scaling the product to market. Also, they had a direct sales team mainly selling to enterprises in a top-down sales motion. “[The And remember to scale. But it pays off!

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Outsourcing Services Scale Scaling Outsourced Development 284

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What are the best 5 points to improve poor sales performance? Here are my 5 simplest ideas to quickly improve sales performance. Concentrate leads in those who can close. Leads are too precious. Not to save money, but to concentrate the leads you do have in those that can close them. Let them go.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies With Ed Lenta, SVP and GM of Databricks Back in the early 2000s, people didn’t entirely accept that a virtual machine could be as good as a physical one. Ed Lenta, the SVP and GM of Databricks, had the rare opportunity of scaling three hypergrowth companies — VMware, AWS, and Databricks.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

The team is typically highly cross-functional, working together with sales, product, engineering, and marketing, and the goal is to help the other teams make better decisions through data and financial modeling. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

Whether you’re going from nothing to something or already scaling and thriving beyond $10-100M, healthy, sustainable growth in SaaS is on every founder’s mind. Cockroach Labs’ CEO Spencer Kimball shares hard-won lessons from scaling from $0 to $5B and his time as an angel investor for more than 80 different startups. Ideas Are Cheap.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2021

It’s a familiar problem for all companies that scale fast – how do you keep your core technologies manageable for the increasing number of teams that depend on them? How our core technologies were being used was also diverging, leading to needlessly increased complexity in our systems. Scaling to Rails. Expanding responsibility.

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Scale Technical Review Technology Scaling 216

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

With so many incredible sessions to choose from, we thought we’d highlight a few for you here: Building & Scaling Global Product Teams. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends: Lessons Learned with AWS’ Head of Customer Success Harini Gokul. Why Customer Success and Product Should be Best Friends.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should a Startup Founder Handle Sales Themself When First Getting Started? The “best” sequence for building a repeatable sales engine is roughly: The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers. It’s to scale a tiny engine into something bigger. That way, she knows.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2020

To make a partnership successful, your startup will need to teach another sales team to sell your product. The sales team asks for more leads. After scaling sales enablement successfully, the next step is to understand where your customers are. Here are my notes. Where to Start. Types of Partnerships.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many have used Digital Ocean at the cheaper, simpler version of AWS-Azure-Digital Ocean to get going fast and quickly. Or at least, maybe like many, tougher times meant holding the line on costs and people, leading to even more efficiency. But at scale, even the slightly less long version of the tail is where the money is.

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Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B Working backwards isn’t a silver bullet that guarantees you success on the scale of AWS.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So to serve both segments at the simultaneously, ZoomInfo has been rolling out a Product-led sales motion, that gives the ability for an SMB customer to sign up directly on their website for a free trial and grow into a paid customer, without ever having to talk to an sales rep or go through a demo process. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SaaS sales model seems so well-established, as hundreds of founders build their businesses and raise funding. Mark Roberge, Founder of Stage 2 Capital and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, shares insights from his years of experience into common SaaS sales missteps and how you can avoid them.

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