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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

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This time last year, 24 SaaS experts predicted big things for 2024. Next we’ll be hiring it. However this will take time, so until then, companies will experiment with usage based pricing, and continue the debate whether usage based or licensing is the better pricing model in the long run. What will 2025 bring?

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The “AI Slow Roll” is Killing Your SaaS, Why Existential Dread is Needed Today: The Latest 20VC with Rory, Harry + Jason

SaaStr

Skip that part if you want. But the parts after were good. One game is actually making people money—finding companies early, making the right bets, paying the right prices, and selling. ” Companies that couldn’t go public at inflated 2021 valuations are finding realistic pricing that works for public investors.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by). 17:36 What Doug learned running Sales Cloud at Salesforce — and why he left. 55:09 The new math of headcount: scaling to $100M+ with fewer hires. 09:56 Doug’s “awesome test” for hiring top talent (and the 90-day rule he swears by).

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Who Should Your VP of Product Report To?

SaaStr

Lately I’ve been working with 5+ SaaS companies all hiring their first VP of Product. That means often it’s not entirely clear who the first VP of Product should report to. A few general learnings: A VP of Product that Reports to CTO / Engineering Rarely Meets With That Many Customers.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

So Okta is one of our favorite SaaS and Cloud leaders. Founder CEO Todd McKinnon was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and left to start Okta in the depths of the last downturn. Much, Much, Much More Efficient Than 12-24 Months Ago The story of almost every Cloud leader. Wow, what an engine at $2.5

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10 Learnings from Talking with Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta

SaaStr

Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta, for the first time joined us at a SaaStr event, SaaStr Scale 2020. Customers believed in the early days — but many investors and potential hires often didn’t. The customers in the early days got how important identity and a single, federated log-in for Cloud apps was.

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Top Global SaaS Trends You Should Know with Google Cloud and Zenoss (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. They wanted real-time results.

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