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

SaaStr

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. market cap – up from $2.4B Don’t get discouraged.”

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

This wasn’t just an improvement it fundamentally changed how brands could engage with SMS marketing. Turn Your Customers Into Your Marketing Engine The second breakthrough was making customer success the core growth engine. Because while the payment problem was solved, the marketing side of mobile commerce remained broken.

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

SaaStr

But here’s the uncomfortable truth the original convergence narrative missed: these markets ARE competing. Industry observers like Josh Bersin remain skeptical about replicating complex systems like Workday’s payroll and compliance frameworks. growth rate vs. SaaS’s 18.4%

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

Fresh data from Ramp’s AI Index suggests that the meteoric rise in business AI spending might be showing signs of deceleration, raising questions about whether we’re witnessing market maturation or beginning to hit a potential adoption ceiling: The numbers tell a nuanced story. While overall AI penetration among U.S.

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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? How do you scale PLG?

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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Marketing is more than just demand gen!

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Why your privacy ecosystem is crucial in the age of GDPR

Intercom, Inc.

And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. Compliance managers don’t want to slow engineers down, but rigorously keeping track of how data is handled throughout a product is essential.