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

SaaStr

So Jamin Ball of Altimeter has a great summary of the cumulative revenue growth of all public SaaS companies … and it’s not a great story: Aggregate net new ARR added in Q1 from the software universe isn't looking good! Aggregate quarterly net new ARR added across the cloud software universe dropped to just $1.65

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The AI messaging pivot happening across SaaS

Sales Hacker

With 30+ years of experience scaling revenue teams across FinTech, SaaS, cloud computing, and communications, Marcy has held executive roles at Boomi and PayPalwhere she led an 800+ person global team. Her deep expertise in aligning sales, customer success, and operations makes her a standout leader in the GTM space.

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From Product to $32B: How Wiz’s Non-Traditional CMO Built a Marketing Machine

SaaStr

” Building the Growth Marketing Machine When it came to hiring, Raaz made an unconventional choice. Instead of hiring cybersecurity marketing experts, she focused on what she calls “growth marketing” – people who could make things go viral.

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The State of GTM Jobs: Customer Success

Sales Hacker

Director of Customer Success at Decisions), Marko Buric (Head of Cloud Customer Experience, Bay Area Enterprise at Google), Joanna Johnston (SVP Customer Success at Gong), and Erin Guagenti (VP of Customer Success at Productiv). Lets get into it.

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GTM 135: How Marketing Creates Million-Dollar Exits: 6 SaaS Success Stories | Katrina Wong

Sales Hacker

Look, look at the clouds from the mountaintop kind of, kind of thing? These were early years of just the cloud and SaaS. So for example taste up, take selling to marketers, right? Is going to look very different from, you know, the end user practitioner who’s a growth marketer, for example. That is rare.

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The State of Venture in 2025

Sales Hacker

AI is expanding the market beyond software AI is unlocking opportunity. It’s so much bigger than just cloud or SaaS. At the start of the cloud era, software was a ~$350B market. It took 15 years to grow the cloud economy to $400B. AI starts in a radically different place: the $10T global services market.

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The Identity Crisis Facing Open Source Companies in the Cloud

Tom Tunguz

But the clouds are rolling in for open source companies (pun intended). Today, open source software faces an identity crisis: what does it mean to be an open source company in the cloud? On the other hand, the future is in cloud. But what does it mean to be open source in the cloud? It’s enterprise-first selling.

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