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Payfac-as-a-Service: A Smarter Way to Handle Payments at Scale

USIO

The embedded finance market—including Payfac-as-a-Service—is projected to exceed $7 trillion in global transaction volume by 2030. That’s not a blip—it’s a massive shift in how businesses are managing money. What Is Payfac-as-a-Service? Why Payfac-as-a-Service Beats Traditional Payment Models 1. The compliance.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Today Udemy for Business boasts 80% of the Fortune 100 – the top 100 largest US companies by revenue – as customers.

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

SaaStr

Enterprise-Grade at Scale Major companies like Zillow and HubSpot use Replit for production systems. One enterprise customer built a customer routing system that handles thousands of requests daily—all without traditional development. Production bugs or security issues could damage the platform’s reputation.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

The harsh reality: Most enterprises are adopting AI due to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) rather than for specific business outcomes. Project Selection: Where Enterprises Go Wrong Many companies stumble by deploying AI in high-risk, customer-facing applications first (like chatbots). This is exactly backward.

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

SaaStr

The “Anti-EnterpriseEnterprise Model Most surprising insight: Atlassian’s growth challenges conventional enterprise wisdom. By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. The Types of Marketplaces. Common Marketplace Vectors.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Upwork at $400,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. 80% SMB, 20% Enterprise. While Upwork has made inrounds into the enterprise, it remains squarely an SMB product. But it should be.