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What 300 of The Highest Growth B2B Startups Are Actually Doing With AI: The Latest from ICONIQ

SaaStr

So ICONIQ Growth is back with their 2025 State of AI Report: Survey Overview It has some great data from 300 high growth software companies building AI products. The report notes cost has jumped dramatically in importance due to “commoditization of the model layer with the rise of more cost-efficient models.”

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Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and Atlassian All Raise Prices Again in 2025. Hooray.

SaaStr

Even specialized tools and emerging leaders are following similar patterns in 2025: Monday.com : Customers report receiving notices of price increases coming into effect in January 2025, with some noting Pro plan increases to $19.00 Asana : Asana has been implementing selective price increases throughout 2025, with customers reporting 2.6%

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Clouded Judgement 5.3.24 - Hyperscalers Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Reports

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q1 + Early Look at Software Results Q1 earnings seasons has officially kicked off! First, companies have largely completed the lion's share of their cost optimization and turned their attention to newer initiatives. We’ve already had ~20% of software companies report Q1.

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Clouded Judgement 12.1.23 - Net New ARR Starts to Rebound + AWS ReInvent Recap

Clouded Judgement

On the cost piece - there were a number of folks who made statements like “we can’t roll out this chatbot / CoPilot to our entire user base becasue our costs would explode!” They want to offer up developers as many options as possible. ” AWS fully embracing the breadth over depth approach.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The Accounting Team Responsibilities: Financial recording and reporting Compliance, Audits Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Tax, Treasury Your accounting team makes sure every financial transaction is recorded correctly and categorized. Cost Optimization Identify and implement strategies to improve margins.

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Managing infrastructure costs as your company grows

Intercom, Inc.

Startups are designed to grow quickly, but high growth rates can generate huge costs as new infrastructure is introduced and scaled to meet demand. How can we maximize returns without introducing developer friction and slowing company growth rate ? Exploring new or different instance options for performance and cost benefit.

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7 Ways to build Enterprise Readiness into your SaaS roadmap

CloudGeometry

Bear in mind that they are not just looking to evaluate the elegance of your software development lifecycle. 7 Cloud Cost Optimization Resource leverage (in the form of reusable software) is at the heart of the SaaS model. Given the speed of SaaS development, you need ways of adhering to both expenture and architecture goals.