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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

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Their blog, academy courses, and certification programs have made them a trusted authority with over 500,000 certifications awarded to professionals in 2024. Each module connects to the same Smart CRM database, creating a seamless ecosystem powered by AI.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

This isn’t just another software success story. It’s the emergence of a new category that’s attracting billions in investment and fundamentally disrupting the $500B+ software development market. The question isn’t whether AI will transform software development.

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Top 10 Interesting Learnings From Figma’s IPO Docs … That You May Have Missed

SaaStr

The Developer Invasion: 30% of Users Write Code Perhaps most surprising: developers represent ~30% of Figma’s user base during Q1 2025. This massive developer adoption through Dev Mode shows Figma successfully bridging the design-to-code gap—traditionally one of the most friction-filled handoffs in software development.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

I was a software developer, product person. .” 5 Things Peter Got Wrong in the Early Days Based on his own admissions and reflections during the SaaStr interview: • Didn’t Want to Be CEO : “I specifically didn’t want to be a CEO. I thought that’s the most creative thing to do. That was my plan.”

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

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GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot.

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Glossary of Advanced Embedded Finance Terminology

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This blog post is your jargon-free guide to all the advanced embedded finance terminology you’ll encounterfrom OAuth to multi-rail payment strategies. Sandbox Environment Translation: The safe space for developers to break stuff. SDK (Software Development Kit) Translation: The IKEA kit for building finance features.

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Anthropic May Never Catch OpenAI. But It’s Already 40% as Big.

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With every major development platform—from GitHub Copilot to Cursor to Replit—adopting Claude as their preferred or default model, Anthropic has captured the enterprise developer market that pays premium rates for AI capabilities.

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