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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

SaaStr

Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Competitive Intelligence and Market Insights and New!!

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Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sanjit Biswas and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. Once you start hearing 80 percent of customers are interested in something, a new product expansion, feature, or hardware, you should probably do it. So that’s what got folks interested and the name stuck.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI

SaaStr

The companies building on this new stack will have 10x advantages over those still running traditional architectures. Max: Outperforms both DeepSeek and ChatGPT on key benchmarks Baidu Ernie 4.5: As Andrew Bosworth (Meta CTO) noted: “This is our space race…there’s very few secrets. downloads in 10 weeks (3.4x

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions. His “draw a pelican riding a bicycle” LLM benchmark is both hilarious and an uncannily accurate LLM quality assessment.

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My AI Writing Index, Feb '23 to Jun '24

Crafty CTO

First, my book of business on the fractional CTO side of things filled up completely, reducing available writing time. Working With My ChatGPT Intern 2023-05-29 Yesterday was a new record. Thinking back on it, I see two causes. Roughly twice the speed, with improved Vision accuracy. Later, I confirmed it.

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GTM 134: When to Hire Your First Sales Reps (And How to Get It Right) with Joe DiMento

Sales Hacker

If one new AE has a hundred calls made a week, and the other has three hundred, and is converting more of them, Well, that’s a pretty good sign that the second one is more effective. You know, you mentioned people that are constantly having new contextual experiences, high intensity, high in curiosity, like. Scott Barker: Yeah.

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. What professional benchmarks do your employees need to know to ensure they’re in the right place?

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