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

SaaStr

Lessons from Ron Gabrisco, CRO at Databricks, who joined when the company had less than $1M ARR and helped scale it to become one of the largest pre-IPO companies in the world. As CRO of Databricks, he’s built one of the most successful developer-focused sales organizations in the world.

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

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With Databricks now one of the largest pre-IPO technology companies, with $10 billion of expected non-dilutive financing and a valuation of $62 billion, Ron’s insights are gold for any revenue leader looking to scale. His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product.

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The 40% Problem: Do Your Sales Reps Really Cover All Their Accounts? And Is AI The Answer? With Yamini Rangan, CEO HubSpot

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The 40% Problem: How AI Will Finally Fix Sales Coverage and Customer Face Time A wake-up call from HubSpot’s CEO Yamini Rangan on why your sales team is failing 60% of their accountsand how AI will change everything There’s a brutal truth about B2B sales that most founders refuse to acknowledge. Forty percent.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

The very best companies lead their customers in that dance. Many mid-market software companies price with the goal of revenue maximization, negotiating for the highest possible price in each sale. Penetration pricing leads to land-and-expand sales tactics. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc.

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NVIDIA Hits $4 Trillion: What Founders Can Learn from the Greatest Growth Story Ever Told

SaaStr

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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Loveable and Replit Both Hit $100M ARR in Record Time. The Vibe Coding TAM: How Big Can This Market Really Get?

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But here’s what makes this particularly fascinating from a market development perspective: this explosive growth is happening while the underlying technology is admittedly broken. You’re looking at massive structural demand that’s been waiting for the right technological catalyst. Reliability issues abound.

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Clouded Judgement - 3.28.25 - The New AI Risk Curve

Clouded Judgement

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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