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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago. Historical precedent : Companies that survived the cloud transition were those that disrupted themselves first.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. The reason? Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. Jessie Lam.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. PLG is like the Cloud. There are no Cloud magicians, and you can’t hire a PLG magician. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Many folks who are bootstrapped misunderstand how venture capital works.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital? I don’t know. Never came back.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

MongoDB was down 23%, a great Cloud stock consistently growing in the 30s. Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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