SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Including: CEO Snowflake CEO HubSpot CEO DropBox CEO Descript CEO Clio CEO Flock Safety CEO Own CRO ServiceTitan CMO Databricks CMO Infinite Reality CTO Rubrik CCO Canva CCO Bill CCO GitHub VP AI Wiz CEO Calendly and 100s more!! Competitive Intelligence and Market Insights and New!!

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Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Still, it’s always interesting to see the data and how apparent that preference is. Tagging your partner organizations, influencers, or thought leaders at your company (your CEO, CTO, etc.) If I left each day to find something new to publish on social, I would have struggled to keep up and certainly would have missed some days. 

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2025

The executives making it happen. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap.

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Scytale

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re a new entrepreneur in the software industry, scaling your startup, or a seasoned SaaS provider, securing a SOC 3 audit report can be a game-changer for your business , helping you strengthen customer trust while demonstrating your unwavering commitment to data security. The good news? What is a SOC 3 Report?

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

Workflow transformation that creates new value. Loom’s AI meeting summaries didn’t just transcribe—they created entirely new workflows around asynchronous collaboration. The companies winning with AI aren’t optimizing existing processes—they’re creating entirely new business models.

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Scytale

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When it comes to securing your customers’ data and earning their trust, there arent many things more important than SOC 2 compliance. Understanding SOC 2 Compliance At its core, SOC 2 compliance is all about showing your customers that their data is safe with you. Data Management Handling data responsibly is non-negotiable.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

As the co-founder and CEO of leading fintech company, OakNorth , – valued at over 1 billion – he has revolutionized lending for scale-up businesses through advanced data analytics, providing fast, flexible financing solutions for SMEs. As co-founder and CEO of Wayve , he is transforming transportation with AV2.0, Backed by 1.93

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Scytale

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As data-driven initiatives become the center of our world, security remains a top concern. Being SOC 2 certified shows potential clients that you are C for Serious when it comes to data security. SOC 2 stands for “Service Organization Control 2,” and it’s a standard that evaluates how well a company manages customer data.

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Teamgate

JUNE 11, 2025

Incorporating strong security measures within integration layers protects data during transit, while regular evaluations and optimizations of integration points help maintain low latency and high availability as systems scale. .” – Tatevik H.,

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There was a real initial problem Samsara identified early on a ton of food (and money) being wasted due to old infrastructure and lack of data among the delivery fleets. Ben Calderon, Samsara’s CTO who runs the hardware team did the hardware at Meraki. They’re making phone calls to figure out where people (and trucks) are.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2025

We’ve been saying for months that speed is the new moat in SaaS Sales with the advent of AI, and yeah, that’s still 100% true. Pipeline Reviews Became Data-Driven (Finally) This one hit us hard. Your AI can process a lot more data and can know more about your deals than your reps do. Implementation : Start today.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Makes It Work The success of Gorgias’ AI agents relies on several key components: First, there’s the data foundation. This comprehensive data access allows the agents to handle complex customer inquiries effectively. The rollout also introduced basic HTTP actions and went from sampling to 100% rollout for email.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs. Data centers now consume 1.5%

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Scytale

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Compliance audits assess whether these requirements are being met, making them essential for demonstrating your organization’s commitment to protecting customer data and meeting industry regulations. Scenario 2: Achieving PCI DSS Compliance PCI DSS compliance mandates regular penetration testing to secure cardholder data environments.

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Scytale

MAY 29, 2025

If youre running a SaaS business that collects or processes data from California residents, chances are youve heard about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its impact on how you manage personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ) is one of the most impactful data privacy laws in the U.S.,

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

ISO 27001 is the leading data security standard, trusted by companies worldwide. What happens if you add new services or locations? The average cost of a data breach incident across companies worldwide is $4.88 This will generally depend on the type of data you handle, your specific industry and your location.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What special data, content, APIs, etc.,

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Neil Patel

JUNE 17, 2025

I’ve seen countless businesses transform their growth by attracting loyal buyers instead of constantly chasing new shoppers. Take the X post by Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht below for example. Plus, the cost to acquire new customers keeps rising. Give them invitations to exclusive events or access to VIP sales.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

First, my book of business on the fractional CTO side of things filled up completely, reducing available writing time. An Appllama Week in AI 2023-07-21 Meta makes waves with Llama 2, while Bloomberg pumps itself with Apple LLM non-news. 2023-07-07 ChatGPT+ subscribers can prevent OpenAI from using their inputs as training data.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. If retention slips, you end up overspending on acquiring new users instead of growing revenue from those you already have. So, how do you offer value the moment a new user opens your app? Jose Gomez, CTO & Co-Founder at Evinex.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

You know, you might have someone who’s far more data driven and really just dives into all of the information that they have through Apollo or what have you and then knows how to manage their very large book right when they’re one of two AEs. This is the core brand value prop. extrapolate those things out.

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SaaStr

MAY 11, 2023

And grab 20% off the FINAL tickets here : The post New SaaStr Europa Speakers! And grab 20% off the FINAL tickets here : The post New SaaStr Europa Speakers! CEOs of Freshworks and UiPath, Hashicorp VP and CTO, VCs from Air Street Capital and OpenView, and More! appeared first on SaaStr.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

Cloud Data Lakes are a trend we’ve been excited about for a long time at Redpoint. This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. The cloud data lake architecture enables companies to achieve scale, flexibility, and accessibility.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Customers are excited about new architectures that significantly reduce cost.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo? ” And there can be some truth to that, right? .”

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. Moreover, LLMs come equipped with an extensive knowledge base derived from the vast amounts of data they've been trained on. Broadly speaking, data can be categorized as either structured or unstructured.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies. This AI-centric approach transforms sales into a data-driven field, emphasizing efficiency and personalized customer experiences.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. The information provided was all pulled from data he’s already entered - just Mark, Houston, Math Teacher, Teach for America. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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TechEmpower SaaS

AUGUST 21, 2023

Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.” Are you preparing to expand, take your business in a new direction, or take on new partners? And what causes that?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mike Wiacek, CEO at Stairwell, Mo Jebrini, CTO at Mashvisor, and Michael Ermolenko, CTO at Inworld.ai, discuss with Helene Ambiana, Global SMB and Startups Marketing Director at Google Cloud, how they overcame the hurdles of scaling and reached their goals. . Accordingly, training programs to hone new skills should be introduced. .

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2022

“For large enterprise customers, your stakeholder map is almost always too small” — Alex Farmer, VP CS, Cognite Data. “That it was much easier to do more in order to keep that customer than to get a new “top” customer. ” — Echeyde Cubillo, Co-founder and CTO, Acme Ticketing.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share more data, not less. Share up front why your first CTO left. Give VCs enough time to see another card. The simplest way to do this is if this month is going to be strong, send the VCs a prompt update on the last day of the month. This always builds confidence.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You have two options to ensure compliance: 1) Go through the eight-step process of sales tax compliance , including gathering the sales tax data, reconciling the data, filing the tax return, and paying wh at you owe. Or 2) File sales tax returns online through a sales tax solution that tells you when, where, and what you need to remit.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. Most of us hire a VP of Engineering to take over from our CTO because we see the CTO is getting burnt out, or has trouble building a dev team > 8-9 folks, or gets disinterested in solving technical debt, bugs, etc. That’s when you want to lean in. More here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 2, 2023

And 1 Big Party with Cheat Codes and Anabel Englund But much more than that, we dig into the data even more to uncover the latest event trends prevalent at SaaStr: First, on the attendee side, 34% of attendees attended as a team. So who’s coming with?

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