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Welcome Back Duplo Cloud & Pylon to SaaStr Annual 2026! 🎉

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Duplo Cloud – Our 6-Time Champion! 🏆 A massive welcome back to Duplo Cloud , who continues their incredible streak as a 6th-time sponsor of SaaStr Annual! What Duplo Cloud Does : Duplo Cloud is the DevOps automation platform that eliminates infrastructure complexity for fast-growing companies.

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SaaS Is Still Slowing Down, Unfortunately: What Q1 2025 Numbers Reveal About the Cloud Software Market

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Down nearly 30% YoY from Q1 last year pic.twitter.com/9MLyLe3XXf — Jamin Ball (@jaminball) June 5, 2025 Bottom Line Up Front : The aggregate cloud software market just delivered its worst quarterly performance in years, with net new ARR additions plummeting nearly 30% year-over-year in Q1 2025. billion in Q1 2025 , down from $2.33

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

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This creates several advantages: Immediate scalability : No lengthy enterprise sales cycles Usage-based pricing : Revenue scales directly with customer success Lower customer acquisition costs : Developers can start using APIs instantly Key Pricing : Claude Sonnet 4 is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.

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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution

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Company Snapshot: Founded : January 2014 (11 years) Current ARR : $1.09B+ (Q1 FY2025) Growth Rate : 39% YoY ARR growth, 47% revenue growth NPS Score : 80 (exceptionally high for enterprise software) Net Revenue Retention : 133% (as of Jan 2024) Customers : 2,246 customers with $100K+ ARR contracts IPO : April 2024 on NYSE (RBRK) at $5.6B

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Syllable.ai

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Pricing That Scales With Your Business The platform scales from small businesses to large enterprises, with single-tenant isolation, multi-cloud support, and enterprise-level support available. Recognized as CB Insights’ most promising startup in healthcare for 2022, picked as a leader from a pool of 7,000 companies.

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4 Unexpected Learnings from Databricks’ Sales Growth Machine From Its VP of Sales

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Word clouds drive culture ownership – Rather than dictating culture from the top, Databricks creates alignment through visual exercises that give AEs direct ownership in defining team identity. By visualizing both perspectives in word clouds, the team could immediately see alignment gaps and opportunities.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! VIP Networking app for B2B founders and execs attending (no service providers, sorry!) And the VCs that want to fund them!