SaaStr

MARCH 21, 2025

I’m fortune that SaaStr Fund was the first investor in RevenueCat in 2018 and today it’s grown into the #1 tool to manage mobile subscriptions, powering 40% of all mobile subscription apps, and even ChatGPT’s mobile app itself. 85% of Business App Trials (and 82% of All Paid) Start on Day 0. My big take-aways: #1.

Data

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

The results were immediate and dramatic: Q4 2024 : $10M ARR (4x growth in 3 months) Q1 2025 : $70M ARR (7x growth in another 3 months) June 2025 : $100M+ ARR That’s a 2,500% year-over-year growth rate—numbers that make even ChatGPT’s ascent look almost modest. AI is incredible at writing code.

Software Review

SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

We wanted to kick it off with some of the key insights with Box CEO Aaron Levie and IBM VP AI Raj Datta: The Numbers Don’t Lie – ChatGPT Hit 500M Users in Just ~2 Years Let’s start with the cold, hard metrics that SaaS leaders seem to underestimate: AI adoption is happening at an unprecedented velocity.

AI

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Owner.com has distinguished itself by consolidating dozens of point solutions into a single, integrated platform that helps small business owners compete effectively online. Her company specializes in API integration platforms that enable SaaS companies to launch integrations faster and automate complex business processes.

AI

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

Fresh data from Ramp’s AI Index suggests that the meteoric rise in business AI spending might be showing signs of deceleration, raising questions about whether we’re witnessing market maturation or beginning to hit a potential adoption ceiling: The numbers tell a nuanced story. businesses has reached an incredible 41.7%

AI

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2025

We developed what we call “The Four C’s” for pre-call research: Chat : What did they discuss with our AI? Claude/ChatGPT : Full company research and “why should they buy from us?” It requires someone who knows your business deeply and can provide high-quality training and oversight.

AI

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What Is AI Infrastructure Infrastructure is everything you might think of behind a ChatGPT-like experience. Ways to Build AI Into Your Business The natural inclination is to tack AI onto existing products. It starts with silicon chips, GPU, and data centers. Then, there are models like GPT4 and Claude from Anthropic. Think of Notion.

AI

Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

Social media automation tools I’d recommend for this task : ChatGPT , Buffer. Many of these chatbots also help you sell more as a small business. ChatGPT for AI assistance with captions, copy, or generating post ideas. Add your human voice and niche expertise into the mix. Or answer product-related queries real-time.

Social Media

Buffer Resources

JULY 23, 2024

And then we attended a webinar where we learned about platforms that help businesses write and publish press releases that get picked up by major news outlets like The Associated Press. Here’s what I wish other business owners knew about publishing press releases so they can see similar benefits.

Marketing

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. Examples like ChatGPT and Perplexity demonstrate how AI applications can be adopted through PLG strategies. Yet there’s a massive gap between interest and implementation.

Technical Review

SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

For relationship-based Series A funding, giving investors time to genuinely understand your business leads to better partnerships. This reality is cascading down to earlier stages, requiring founders to build long-term sustainable businesses rather than planning for quick exits or market bubbles.

Technical Review

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JUNE 9, 2025

I used ChatGPT and Lovable to create the app, and it can be seen below (you can also view it on Lovable ). I used ChatGPT to research, evaluate, and summarize 50 of the most widely used sales methodologies, then used Lovable to transform that research into a responsive, user-friendly app.

Artificial Intelligence

SaaStr

MAY 19, 2025

” Their products were built for a different world – before ChatGPT, before the great AI awakening, before every investor and customer started demanding AI capabilities as table stakes. The best founders are often building their AI future as a parallel product line while maintaining their core business. Yes, This is Hard.

AI Search

SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2025

This isn’t about sprinkling ChatGPT into your sales process. The Compounding Effect: Each individual improvement might seem modest, but when you’re closing deals 5 weeks faster, at higher rates, with better quota attainment, the cumulative business impact is enormous. vs $8.7K), and dramatically leaner operations.

Scale

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2025

billion in Q4 FY2025 Cloud Services became Oracle’s largest business, with non-GAAP operating income up 14% in constant currency to $5.7 billion, including one with OpenAI to train ChatGPT in Oracle Cloud. billion, including one with OpenAI to train ChatGPT in Oracle Cloud. The Revenue Reality Check: Total revenue of $15.90

AI

SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

You need GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) The Fix : Optimize for AI crawlers, invest heavily in G2 reviews, and ensure your content shows up in ChatGPT/Claude responses 4. Lead with integration capabilities and security compliance, not just business outcomes 5.

AI Search

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

Customer Service Platforms Threat: Voice agents indistinguishable from humans handling phone-based jobs at a fraction of human cost Market size: $85 billion addressable market for business calls alone 3. Ready When AI Hit and Went All-In When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, most SaaS companies scrambled to add AI features.

AI Search

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

Phase 2: The Inflection Point (2022-2023) Funding Strategy : Scale infrastructure ahead of demand Revenue Strategy : Freemium land grab with ChatGPT This is where the magic happened. ChatGPT launches in November 2022. Fund the Moat Before You Need It OpenAI spent billions on compute and talent before they knew ChatGPT would work.

AI

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

ChatGPT launched in November 2022. Claude, GPT-4, and the foundation model explosion happened through 2023. I’m talking about AI that genuinely transforms your core product experience in ways that create measurable business impact. You have a talent (and vision) problem.

AI Search

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Lessons learned from growing and selling a bootstrapped services business. Predictions for the future of go-to-market, including the rise of micro-businesses and AI. 38:27) Predictions for the future of SaaS businesses and go-to-market. (42:16) 38:27) Predictions for the future of SaaS businesses and go-to-market. (42:16)

Acquisition

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

SaaS and startups rapidly embed AI: many Silicon Valley companies now use models like GPT-4 and Claude via API to power features in chatbots, analytics, coding assistants, etc. born tools like ChatGPT are extremely positive (ChatGPT rates 4.7/5 76% of UK tech leaders report a positive impact of AI on their business growth.

AI

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Buffer: Social media management for creators and small businesses A social media management tool is central to any social strategy. That flexibility is helpful since every dollar counts as I grow my freelance business. Many social listening tools cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, putting them out of reach for small businesses.

Social Media

User Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Pro tip: Export all your qualitative responses into a spreadsheet and prompt ChatGPT to organize them. They are commonly used in business, academia, and government to gather feedback, measure satisfaction, or support decision-making processes. Look for themes and patterns in the responses. NPS response tagging in Userpilot.

Scale

BetterCloud

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Theyre looking to become more efficient or meet specific project needs, so they get down to business and subscribe to a new SaaS tool. Shadow artificial intelligence (AI) apps Your employees are no doubt using public large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini, as well as chatbots, copilots and a host of other AI tools.

Artificial Intelligence

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2025

See how to reach the right users, measure adoption in real-time, and connect every launch to your business goals. No information overload: The pagination (1/3) prevents information overload for busy business professionals, ensuring comprehensive coverage of relevant details and probable feature adoption.

Mobile

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Attention’s generalized insights allow you to ask any question across all of your conversations – think of it like ChatGPT for your sales calls. It records your calls, generates next-step summaries, action items, and even creates scorecards for every single call, so your reps can continuously improve. But that’s just the beginning.

Venture Capital

How To Buy Saas

MAY 26, 2025

In simple terms, RAG allows any SaaS or business to plug their proprietary data or the latest information into an AI model without retraining it so the models responses stay accurate and relevant to the users context. OpenAI Plugins : OpenAI introduced a retrieval plugin that lets ChatGPT retrieve from a custom dataset.

Artificial Intelligence

Panintelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It's the nature of the business. Together, AI and SaaS are reshaping business operations, redefining customer experiences, and driving innovation across industries. By removing the complexity of in-house AI development, AI SaaS enables businesses to quickly adopt innovative strategies, tackle challenges, and boost efficiency.

SaaS Payments

SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2025

Real strategies from the leaders actually building nine-figure ARR businesses. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. The revenue-generating event that matters. Not vaporware. Click here to join us!!

AI Search

Neil Patel

JULY 20, 2025

Better personalization can provide your business with better results from your marketing campaigns. Tell the chatbot about your business and your overall content goals and ask for topics that you may not have covered yet. If you don’t use any other AI tool, you should at least have a ChatGPT account under your belt.

AI

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Generative Business Intelligence (GenBI) is the next exciting innovation, saving organizations from getting lost in a sea of data. Generative BI is an AI-powered evolution of traditional Business Intelligence (BI) that enables users to interact with data via a chat-like function using natural language. Let me explain.

Traceability

How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

Capabilities: Modern LLMs like GPT-4 , Anthropics Claude , Googles PaLM 2 , Metas LLaMA 2 , and others have demonstrated an array of capabilities: from answering Q&A, summarizing documents, generating creative stories, to even helping with programming tasks. ChatGPT (the chat interface by OpenAI) is itself an AI tool built on the GPT-4/3.5

Artificial Intelligence

How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech. ChatGPT is free for basic use, making it very accessible.

AI Search

Clouded Judgement

JULY 18, 2025

And that time frame was a GREAT time to start a business. Well, ChatGPT was launched in 2022…I think we’re just about to hit the golden era of AI investing, with the creation of some of the largest software platforms we’ll ever see. What was the significance of that window?

Cloud

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2025

They announced the first price increase for Dynamics 365 Business Central in over five years, effective October 1, 2025, with increases of 10-15%: Essentials: From $70 to $80 per user per month (14% increase) Premium: From $100 to $110 per user per month (10% increase) Device License: From $40 to $45 per device per month (12.5%

Pricing

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

AI User Adoption Is Literally Unprecedented We know this, but still, the numbers do sort of blow your mind: ChatGPT: 0 to 800MM weekly users in 17 months (vs. Netflix’s 10+ years to 100MM) Time to 100MM users: ChatGPT (2 months), TikTok (9 months), Instagram (2.5 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2% The Next 2.6B

AI Search

SaaStr

MAY 23, 2025

This validates that the foundation model providers – OpenAI, Anthropic, and maybe 1-2 others – are building truly defensible businesses. When you’re in the right, you typically just defend and focus on running your business. They’re the “AWS of AI” and will capture massive value.

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