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The Redpoint Ventures Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI Applications (And What It Means for Your SaaS Strategy)

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Model costs are plummeting faster than cloud costs ever did. Efron showed data demonstrating that for any given benchmark of capabilities, the cost per token is dropping dramatically year over year—a decline rate that exceeds what we saw during the cloud era. ” The reason? This is about market expansion potential.

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State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners

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Every year, Bessemer Venture Partners releases a State of the Cloud report. This year, it’s all about AI, which is why Sameer Dholakia, Partner at Bessemer, calls it the Cloud AI Era. Four portfolio companies join Sameer to talk about three trends of the Cloud AI Era. Like we’re all here at SaaStr in Cloud.

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

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“Industry Cloud” Becomes Standard Every major SaaS company will launch industry-specific versions of their platform. 70% of Monday.com’s customers aren’t in tech. ” They’re digitizing their core business operations for the first time. Predictions for H2 2025 and 2026 1.

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

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Channel Partnership Strategy Rather than building massive direct sales teams, Anthropic distributes primarily through: AWS Bedrock : Leveraging Amazon’s enterprise relationships Google Vertex AI : Tapping into Google Cloud’s customer base Direct API access : For developer-first adoption This reduces sales costs while accelerating enterprise (..)

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People, Passion & Perfection: The Key Ingredients for an Awesome Product

Dive into "People, Passion, and Perfection" and unlock the secrets to building excellent products in the digital age.

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Syllable.ai

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Recognized as CB Insights’ most promising startup in healthcare for 2022, picked as a leader from a pool of 7,000 companies. 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.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations.