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Top SaaStr Posts, Pod and Vids of the Week: Jason Lemkin + Dave Kellogg, State of the AI Cloud, New CRO Confidential, and More!!

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The Cloud Bubble Lasted About 18 Months. State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #3. Top SaaStr Posts of the Week: #1. “A Lot of Great Sales Leaders — Just Aren’t Great at Selling Anymore. And Why You Really Need a VP of Sales, and Not a CRO.” ” #2. appeared first on SaaStr.

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The Top 10 SaaStr Videos and Podcasts of the Year: CEOs of Rippling, Klaviyo and Automattic; YCombinator’s Secrets; State of AI Cloud; and More!

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We’re on the top 1% on Spotify overall and just added video there, and our YouTube has become a great stream of the best of the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI. State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners #9. It’s been a great year for SaaStr videos and podcasts. appeared first on SaaStr.

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State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners

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Every year, Bessemer Venture Partners releases a State of the Cloud report. This year, it’s all about AI, which is why Sameer Dholakia, Partner at Bessemer, calls it the Cloud AI Era. Four portfolio companies join Sameer to talk about three trends of the Cloud AI Era. Like we’re all here at SaaStr in Cloud.

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Google Cloud + Thread AI: 5 Critical Lessons On Making Enterprise AI Actually Work in Production

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Thread AI’s founder and Palantir alum Maya Gonimah has cracked the code on enterprise AI implementation through their strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Darren Mowrey (Google Cloud) Darren leads strategic partnerships at Google Cloud, focusing on helping startups scale their AI implementations.

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Ask Yourself for 2025: Does Your App Still Matter?

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I do think so, but it’s been 12 years of blogging and 10+ year of events and more. All I had to do was write one blog post a day and one Quora answer, and magic happened. Does SaaStr still matter? So you gotta ask yourself that question as the year winds down. Do you still matter? Does your app still matter? What about SaaStr?

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What’s New at Google Cloud with CMO Alison Wagonfeld

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In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CMO of Google Cloud, Alison Wagonfeld. They also compete with Microsoft in a big way.

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Battery Ventures: Startups Are Actually Far More Overvalued Now Than in 2021

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So Battery Ventures has a new detailed report on The Open Cloud you can dig into here. There’s a lot of great data in the report, but one analysis helped answered a question I’ve been wondering the past 12-18 months: Are start-up actually more overvalued today than at the peak of Cloud mania in 2021? in 2021 to 23.4x

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