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How Anthropic Rocketed to $4B ARR — And Why Your B2B Playbook May Already Be Obsolete

SaaStr

The Enterprise-First Strategy That Worked While OpenAI captured headlines with consumer ChatGPT adoption, Anthropic quietly built an enterprise juggernaut. Usage-Based Pricing Done Right Anthropic proves that when your product becomes truly essential to customer workflows, usage-based pricing creates massive expansion opportunities.

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AI in GTM Efficiency: The Playbooks from Databricks, Monday.com and Benchling

SaaStr

Rob Schmeltzer, Head of Strategic Customer Success at Monday.com , oversees customer success operations for the work management platform serving over 180,000 customers. This isn’t just about efficiency — it’s about consistency and quality of customer interactions at scale.

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The Great Flattening: Growth Rates for B2B Leaders from 2020-2025

SaaStr

Every ChatGPT competitor needs compute and storage. AI Is the New Growth Engine (For Some) Notice how Snowflake has stabilized around 26-30%? That’s not an accident. Every enterprise AI initiative runs on data infrastructure. Snowflake is literally selling the picks and shovels for the AI gold rush.

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GTM in The Age of AI: The Top 10 Learnings from ICONIQ’s 2025 B2B SaaS Report

SaaStr

This isn’t about sprinkling ChatGPT into your sales process. ” Nick Cochran (former Databricks VP Customer Success): “The traditional CSM role no longer made sense for us… The core responsibilities of Customer Success are now distributed across all teams that engage with the customer.”

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

Ready When AI Hit and Went All-In When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, most SaaS companies scrambled to add AI features. While competitors debated how much to invest in AI, Palantir made it their primary growth engine, restructuring their entire go-to-market strategy around AIP bootcamps and AI-driven customer success.

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Five clear signs your customer success technology needs an upgrade.

ChurnZero

Too many customer teams are still relying on mismatched technologyand it’s holding them back. ChurnZeros latest Customer Success Leadership Study found that technology adoption shifts depending on company size by revenue. A CRM is a great tool for sales operations, but it falls short for customer success needs.

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Sales In The Age of AI: The Playbook from The CROs of Databricks, Windsurf, Perplexity and Owner

SaaStr

” Perplexity : Dmitry Shevelenko emphasizes that the entire company mandate is to move faster using AI superpowers What “AI-Native” Actually Means : This isn’t about knowing ChatGPT exists. The bar is sophisticated usage across multiple tools and systematic integration into daily workflows.