SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2025

250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

By early 2024, every serious B2B company had access to the same foundational AI capabilities through APIs that cost pennies on the dollar. Workflow transformation that creates new value. Loom’s AI meeting summaries didn’t just transcribe—they created entirely new workflows around asynchronous collaboration.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

Christopher Doman As co-founder and CTO of Cado Security – a leading platform for cloud-native digital forensics and incident response – Christopher Doman is a seasoned cybersecurity professional making waves in the tech startup space. As co-founder and CEO of Wayve , he is transforming transportation with AV2.0,

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The latest one is all AI with a big enterprise / B2B slant and is very good but dense. So weve summarized it for B2B founders below! Internet’s 23 years to reach this level) Why This Matters for B2B: Unlike previous tech waves that started in Silicon Valley and slowly diffused globally, AI hit the world simultaneously.

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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. Spend 30 minutes with AI getting to 80% proficiency. Feel the difference? It’s here. And honestly?

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Additionally, it supports third-party analytics tools such as Datadog, Splunk , and New Relic Insights, enabling a comprehensive and unified monitoring process. Sarah Kim, CTO at GrowthCraft, highlighted the cost efficiency: “As our system grew to hundreds of services, our previous monitoring solution became prohibitively expensive.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2025

I’ve seen countless businesses transform their growth by attracting loyal buyers instead of constantly chasing new shoppers. Take the X post by Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht below for example. Why Brand Loyalty Matters for Your Business For B2C and B2B companies alike, brand loyalty isn’t just a nice-to-have.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

“Mastermind Masterclass: The SaaS Org Chart by Series with David Sacks” David Sacks, founder of Craft Ventures and Yammer, and ex-COO, leads us on a new Mastermind class on opening day. #2. The Top 10 will change as more folks register, but here’s the leaderboard for now: #1.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2023

They’re a barometer of sub-enterprise B2B SaaS in many ways. Combining Strong Growth With A New Level of Efficiency. HubSpot’s NRR has dipped to 104%, materially lower than 110% from last year — but consistent with other B2B leaders like Freshworks and others which are seeing similar compression in NRR. #5.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. So, let me walk you through that. Then something really interesting happened.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2021

Ciara Peter (Gainsight VP of Product & Design) and Mickey Alon (CTO & Founder of Gainsight PX) share their practical tips for product leaders looking to achieve business growth. Every year, millions of new products are created and launched. What does it mean to make your product the star in your SaaS growth strategy?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. The panel that we are in is called Is Seed the New Series A, and this is a question that I’ve been asking informally yesterday and today.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2022

Fast forward to today, and there is an amazing amount of B2B-centric content out there, and many others have put together amazing events around the hard-learned lessons of scaling revenue and scaling SaaS companies. total attendees, e.g., a CEO + a VP of Sales and a VP of Customer Success, or two Co-Founders, or CEO + CTO, etc.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2019

We passed a new milestone on Quora — crossing 50,000,000 total views. What makes a bad CTO? What happens to the clients of a mission-critical, B2B enterprise SaaS startup when it fails? As you can see, views dropped a bit and then rebounded strongly in the past few months.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. GTM Mistake #5: Not Properly Jumping on the AI Bandwagon AI can be confusing in B2B because adding a lot of hallucinations into your app next week doesn’t make it better, or you don’t need to make text into cartoons. Let’s jump right in.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Even just comparing the differences between how growth works for B2C versus B2B at a very high level, it’s easy to see that there are differences at each stage of the customer journey. . Despite these differences, there’s a lot B2B and B2C can learn from each other when it comes to growth. . Defining Growth . Acquisition.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. Consumer happens faster than B2B because you can cancel a subscription in 60 seconds vs. signing 3-year contracts with Salesforce. An early thing Jason wrote on SaaStr is that B2B lags B2C by about two years. They said they’ll only grow 17% next year.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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USIO

JUNE 28, 2024

is committed to empowering businesses to build powerful enterprise grade applications without the need for extensive coding expertise,” said Ben Hubbard, CTO at ues.io. This will allow our users to streamline their workflows, improve customer experiences, and unlock new revenue opportunities.” application.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With this new investment, we are already increasing our pace of innovation and have a very exciting roadmap of things to come over the next 12 months. We found many new ways to stay connected and have some fun, and it was inspiring to see how well morale has held up in light of the circumstances. We acquired SalesRight.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. They love new ways of working and were happy to bring Slack into their functional teams and say, “Let’s experiment with this new way of working.” And it was very successful. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. As a B2B enterprise company, sales was our first key. If I wasn’t at the programming background, probably a CTO was a good idea, but for us it was sales, definitely sales and marketing. You’re going to do what he or she said.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. Best Product Pricing Practices for B2B SaaS.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

No Person is an Island It is rare in B2B sales for a single buyer to make a noteworthy purchase in a vacuum, and according to the Harvard Business Review software purchases greater than $100k involve on average eight stakeholders. Examples: CTO, COO, CFO. Who is in your “Buying Committee”?

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

My conclusion was that Generative AI is an asteroid impact event for B2B software, comparable to the launch of the iPhone or the Internet itself. If they can adapt fast and embrace the shift towards much smarter B2B software, they are in a good position to survive and thrive.

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User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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Outseta

APRIL 11, 2019

Think of the best CTO-level software developers that you know—do you think your product would progress faster if they were building it 2-3 days per week, or if you hired an average developer in a full-time capacity? Add 40% for benefits and other costs, and that person is costing your company $112,000 per year.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Not only does your sales team need to bring new customers through the door, but they also need to ensure that what they’re selling matches up exactly with those customers’ expectations. B2B/Enterprise subscription sales. When you’re selling B2B or enterprise subscriptions, showcasing value throughout the sales process is a must.

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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. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: The whole area is a new space. Adam: The space itself is new, but it’s one that’s been hypothesized for some time. Caught your interest?

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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

B2B is the least demanding customers for the most money.” - Pieter Levels -. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. How I made it to $1,000 MRR Here are the tactics I used to grow Friendly from a brand new startup to a company that makes over $1,000 in MRR.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

Customer interviews are a powerful tool that can help you better position your B2B product to attract and retain more customers. B2B marketing is much more complicated than consumer marketing. That’s because B2B businesses address particular niches, where customers don’t spend as much time online. You identify customer pains.

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