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The ChatGPT Moment: When 8 Years of Growth Happens in 8 Months

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It hit 1 billion searches per day in under a year : Let’s put this in perspective: ChatGPT compressed what took Google over a decade into roughly 300 days. The AI Adoption Explosion Across the Board But ChatGPT isn’t alone. OpenAI projects ChatGPT is running about 8 years ahead of Google’s original trajectory.

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The Vertical SaaS Gold Rush: Why Non-Tech B2B Is Growing 250%+ Faster

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70% of Monday.com’s customers aren’t in tech. When a construction company implements Monday.com to manage their projects, job sites, and crew scheduling, they’re not “optimizing their 47th SaaS tool.” ” They’re digitizing their core business operations for the first time.

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How The Top 25 B2B Public Companies Have Performed In 2025 So Far — And What They Tell Us About the Future

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Defense, intelligence, healthcare, education—they’re all spending like it’s 1999 on anything with “AI” in the name. Government B2B Gold Rush Every B2B founder will suddenly discover a passion for defense/healthcare/education customers. Bet on vertical specialists – Especially in healthcare/pharma/defense.

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

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The Enterprise-First Strategy That Worked While OpenAI captured headlines with consumer ChatGPT adoption, Anthropic quietly built an enterprise juggernaut. To put this in perspective, it took Snowflake—one of the fastest SaaS companies in history—six quarters to go from $1B to $2B ARR. Anthropic did $1B to $4B in seven months.

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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

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Examples like ChatGPT and Perplexity demonstrate how AI applications can be adopted through PLG strategies. What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024. Product-led growth (PLG) motion applies well to AI-powered products.

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

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These aren’t general-purpose tools — they’re laser-focused solutions targeting specific SaaS incumbents: Healthcare & Life Sciences : 14 companies in CB Insights’ AI 100 Disrupting: Epic, Cerner, Veeva Advantage: Domain-specific data and regulatory expertise Financial Services : AlphaSense ($1.4B Palantir was ready.

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Global AI Race: Top 7 Countries Leading Full-Stack AI in 2025

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For example, AI’s impact shows in healthcare – the FDA approved 223 AI-enabled medical devices in 2023 versus just 6 in 2015– and in transportation, with Waymo’s robotaxis driving hundreds of thousands of miles weekly. born tools like ChatGPT are extremely positive (ChatGPT rates 4.7/5 For instance, ChatGPT enjoys a 4.7/5

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