SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2025

When ChatGPT mobile downloads (29.5 Just as Meta spent $60 billion on VR as a hedge against the next platform shift, this AI investment follows the same playbook. Harvey isn’t some breakthrough in legal AI—it’s ChatGPT with a law costume. Lovable isn’t revolutionizing code—it’s Claude with pretty buttons.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2025

The Infrastructure Bypass Midmarket software companies are caught in a “pressure cooker” with fast-moving AI startups developing applications far more rapidly than traditional software companies on one side, and tech giants investing billions in proprietary AI tools on the other. Palantir was ready.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What Is AI Infrastructure Infrastructure is everything you might think of behind a ChatGPT-like experience. Models built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have billions of dollars to invest in training these models, so you have more powerful engines under the hood at no cost to you. It starts with silicon chips, GPU, and data centers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Examples like ChatGPT and Perplexity demonstrate how AI applications can be adopted through PLG strategies.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Their platform helps restaurant owners, who typically earn less than $50,000 annually in profit, create professional online presences without significant investment in time or resources. Restaurant Industry Solutions Owner.com has developed an AI website generator that implements industry best practices automatically.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2025

This isn’t about sprinkling ChatGPT into your sales process. It’s about fundamental organizational redesign —from pricing models (hybrid consumption/subscription) to team structures (forward-deployed engineers vs traditional CSMs) to investment priorities (94% AI spend increases among high-growth companies).

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 8, 2024

The fastest growing category of US venture investment in 2024 is AI. Venture capitalists have invested $18.3 But after the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there’s a marked inflection point. Some of this is new company formation, & there has been a significant amount of seed investment in this category.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2025

Build it into your core value prop or risk being eliminated before you even get to pitch The Opportunity : 4 out of 5 buyers report positive ROI on AI investments, and they’re willing to pay 20-30% premiums for proven AI value 2.

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SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2025

About Ethan Kurzweil Ethan is the founder of Chemistry VC, a focused early-stage venture firm that writes $3-30M checks with an average of $10-12M for Series A investments. Prior to founding Chemistry, Ethan spent 16 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he led investments in successful companies like PagerDuty, Intercom, and SendGrid.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He was just using ChatGPT to generate Python code. Revelations in the Market After the Launch of OpenAI for Enterprise OpenAI shares three things about their journey to building ChatGPT Enterprise, learnings, and what is coming. Another learning was to invest in customer success work early on.

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Buffer Resources

JULY 24, 2024

What if you could automate the mundane, repetitive tasks and focus on your core jobs that actually move the needle toward your return-on-investment (ROI) ? Social media automation tools I’d recommend for this task : ChatGPT , Buffer. ChatGPT for AI assistance with captions, copy, or generating post ideas.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

Governments and companies now invest billions: the U.S. This surging investment spans AI chips, cloud platforms, and smart software. billion in private AI investment in the U.S. private AI investment reached $125.3 born tools like ChatGPT are extremely positive (ChatGPT rates 4.7/5 poured $109.1

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The importance of RevOps and when to invest in a full-time RevOps hire. Attention’s generalized insights allow you to ask any question across all of your conversations – think of it like ChatGPT for your sales calls. Lessons learned from growing and selling a bootstrapped services business. But that’s just the beginning.

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IT World

JANUARY 10, 2023

Microsoft is in talks to invest an additional $10 billion into ChatGPT owner OpenAI as it looks to integrate the GPT3-based chatbot into its search engine Bing, Semafor reported. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. 9:10) Will the vast majority of software companies have a PLG motion in the future? (18:56) 18:56) Using product data for marketing purposes. (21:17) But that’s just the beginning.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

AI doesn’t magically make every payroll or SOC2 product better, and hooking ChatGPT into an app doesn’t magically change the game. If you outsource your content to some crappy agency that recycles ChatGPT, your content marketing will fail. Talkdesk is worth $10B, and he invested when it was just five people. It’s still early.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

The arrival of ChatGPT just eight weeks ago was a watershed moment. ChatGPT suffers from “hallucinations” – confidently providing incorrect information. Even before the recent GPT models came out, we were investing substantially in AI to make this process more efficient.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

Many investment banker pitches say that everyone is number one at something. G2’s OpenAI-Powered Monty Changes The Game G2’s Monty, powered by ChatGPT, will be the best way to discover longtail apps for software buyers. Why ChatGPT and not some other language model?

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Kellblog

MAY 2, 2023

Since there is much talk of AI replacing workers , including writers , I thought I’d give ChatGPT a crack at writing a Kellblog post. So invest in marketing, and watch your business thrive. But for now, ChatGPT doens’t appear to be close to putting me out of business. So, how’d it do?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Together with Abhay Parasnis, founder and CEO of Typeface, they chat about what it looks like to be a builder at the forefront of Generative AI. Lightspeed has invested in companies for about 20 years, with roots in early-stage Enterprise investing. When Typeface began 15 months ago, it was before ChatGPT was released.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a chatbot sensation that virtually every enterprise — large and small — is considering using to create greater business efficiencies. And all that can be done with limited investments. Five days after its November launch, it had 1 million users. Over the next two months, the AI chatbot had more than 200 million users.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

The company is investing $50b of capex this year into additional capacity because AI demand exceeds supply. In fact, Azure Search, which is really used by even ChatGPT, is one of the fastest growing services for us. 815% Total $4.5b 760% Combined with the Copilot business, Microsoft has roughly $4.5b-5b 5b AI product suite.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

time, he agreed to invest a million dollars into the company and kickstarted everything. If you take ChatGPT, an interface to a model, OpenAI needs to be the best at the thing. Long-term revenue is more painful, but it’s essential to invest in it. Mark doesn’t do calls. Around 4 a.m.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. ChatGPT also leads here — but by a much tighter margin.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The SMB markets can test out features that aren’t built to scale yet, and as they succeed, Greenhouse invests in them and rolls them out to Enterprise customers. The swing nature is true for where to invest marketing dollars, so founders need to be thoughtful when running a portfolio of bets. Greenhouse is no different.

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Generative Artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT – and now Bing Chat – is transforming the way we communicate and work, especially in Customer Success. It was trained on web data up to mid-2021, so the benefit of Bing Chat over ChatGPT is access to the latest information. ChatGPT which is GPT3.5).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sure – the rise of ChatGPT has gone mainstream for consumers and smaller companies, but what about the big guys? ” What are the Most Important Investments that Ensure a Future 50 Company Can Adopt? While the first generation of Generative AI is great, it’s not quite ready to solve Enterprise problems. Compliance matters.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

Lesson #2: Invest in Prospect Data Way Earlier So, now that you know what the customer looks like, you need to know how to target them. Invest way earlier than you think in prospect data. The key takeaway: hire and invest in rev ops and enablement earlier than you think. This is big takeaway #2. Find a way to document.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

Yesterday I published a brief LinkedIn post with a few thoughts on ChatGPT and the implications for SaaS companies. As we enter month 3 CE (ChatGPT Era), I’d like to share a few observations and questions on the ChatGPT phenomenon and what it might mean for SaaS startups. enabled ChatGPT’s meteoric rise. What happened?

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Unbounce

JULY 12, 2023

I was chatting with one of our designers the other day. She mentioned she’s creating a landing page , and she used a combination of Smart Copy and Chat GPT to create placeholder copy for the meantime until the Copywriter is available to get in there and write the actual final copy. 00:10:46] Pete Housley : Couldn’t agree more.

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Panintelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI SaaS further elevates this model by providing scalable, cloud-based AI technologies - such as Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Causal AI - without requiring heavy investments in infrastructure or specialized talent. After this ChatGPT boom, adoption was at an all-time high.

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IT World

JUNE 28, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly gaining traction, allowing the technology to be used throughout the enterprise to automate a variety of manual tasks performed by workers today, leading to what's expected to be a major shift in the global job market. To read this article in full, please click here

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

I asked ChatGPT how many price changes AWS has made to S3 since it’s inception in 2006, and the answer it gave me was 65. Sundar said “ the risk of under investing is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing. This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

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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

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

You don’t want anything that looks like ChatGPT or a low-quality writer wrote it. When you visit your largest customers, you know you’re walking into a room where people are heavily investing in you. They’re not only investing in your company, but they’re also investing their careers and livelihood in you.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To generate the posts, I used three leading AI tools to not seem biased – Buffer's AI Assistant , Claude AI , and ChatGPT.   The clear takeaway centers on bite-sized, tactical content better commanding audience investment – aligning rationally with their immediate growth needs.  

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

6:08) Getting ChatGPT to write Andy’s father’s obituary. (8:26) Approaches for operationalizing AI learnings across go-to-market teams. Tactics individuals and startups can take to get started with generative AI tools. Highlights: (3:44) Andy’s journey into machine learning and AI. (6:08)

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