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The New Rules of AI Investing: Why Speed Beats Strategy and Labor Budget Is the New Software Budget with Google Cloud’s COO

SaaStr

Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg and Google Cloud’s COO Francis Duza were kind enough to join us at SaaStr AI Summit 2025 on what’s driving the fastest technology adoption in decades. When AI can deliver measurable labor cost savings within months rather than years, even the most risk-averse enterprises become early adopters.

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Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle.

SaaStr

With this news, we will be introducing Snowflake Postgres: enterprise-grade, AI-ready, and fully managed. ” Snowflake’s Enterprise-Focused Approach Snowflake’s strategy targets enterprise customers and government agencies. .”

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

SaaStr

This “hands-off” approach counterintuitively led to more organic expansion within enterprises. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.

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The Wild Ride of Informatica: 32 Years, 2 IPOs, to $8 Billion Acquisition by Salesforce

SaaStr

private equity buyout (Permira + CPPIB) Company needed to transform for the cloud era Classic “take private to modernize” playbook 2021: Second IPO on NYSE at $27.55/share ” That’s not hyperbole – that’s strategy. While consumer apps chase viral growth, enterprise infrastructure compounds quietly.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Drift® , the Conversation Cloud company, helps businesses connect with people at the right time, in the right place with the right conversation. Using the Drift Conversation Cloud, businesses can personalize experiences that lead to more quality pipeline, revenue and lifelong customers.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. Power of the Cloud. Atlassian Cloud Platform is a platform that all Atlassian products rely on. Another noteworthy point about the Atlassian Cloud Platform is its extensibility.

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11 application security questions that show if your SaaS is enterprise-ready

Audacix

As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. Why are enterprise buyers' concerned about cloud software security?