SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Not like 2021 post-pandemic growth, but definitely growth. It’s not like it used to be, where it was very easy to sell. Gong monitors how many upgrades and expansions they’re seeing, and it’s showing a positive trend. Last year was all about rationalizing budgets and cuts, and now it’s back to growth. What’s driving it?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

So yeah, definitely bake that into your 2025 marketing strategy if it’s not already. Yeah, and they’re awesome. Just everyone wins. The attendees get to learn and network, and sponsors get to build new connections, and we get to talk to our LPs and our founders. You can partner with people, you can bring costs down.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether it’s industry debates over business models and the actual definition of open , or governments actively discussing how to regulate models, seemingly everyone has an opinion on what it means for AI models to be open. ’ “But there was a canonical definition, and people could be at different places on the spectrum.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

So far in 2023, we’ve seen the fastest advances in conversational AI since the first iteration of ELIZA was created by Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s. Today, generative AI chatbots can answer questions about almost anything. Interestingly, Flan-PaLM (another AI large language model—“Dr. Like, wildly fast. That’s ‘Dr.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Satya at Microsoft said “Every AI app starts with data and having a comprehensive data and analytics platform is more important than ever.” ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.” ” Data is more important than ever!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. Immad: Pre-product market fit, we’d definitely be in an office.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

[03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? Ben: Going to generative AI, 1 of the things that’s been interesting for us as a VC, is we see all kinds of companies.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Product Predictions 2024 – From generative AI being a double-edged sword to the increased need to talk to customers, Marty shares 10 predictions that will shape product management in 2024. He scrutinizes training programs, dissects product team distinctions, and provides clarifying insights.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 7, 2023

As we jump into partnerships with generative AI and apply it our daily tasks, we’ll have to be aware of and monitor developments in its weaker areas such as transparency, accuracy, and bias. To unpack the potential impact of generative AI tools, it’s important to start from the very beginning: what is AI?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It will likely take years, or even decades, before we have a full tech stack for generative AI and LLMs and a host of transformative applications—though we have reason to believe the impact is accelerated this time around. While previous AI cycles had plenty of technological advances, they lacked transformative economics. .”

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We have companies like BuzzFeed and C3 making loose announcements about how they will incorporate generative AI into their business, sending their stocks up 50-100%+. Dovish Fed : Powell definitely had a more dovish tone. Now on to the content… What a crazy start to the year. Let’s talk about each.

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 29, 2024

The use of AI to generate weird and wonderful imagery is definitely my favorite application of the cutting-edge tech.   As with other AI tools, there’s no shortage of artificial intelligence image generators in the market. Read on for guidelines about using AI art for social media and marketing. 

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 18, 2025

I mean, we definitely do, uh, a lot of that, um, in, I would say in our sales cycle, um, we are very product forward because I think a lot of this stuff, um, and I know that in enterprise sales, you’re not supposed to be very product forward, right? And I think that type of discovery and learning is definitely very important.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Kathleen: I don’t think there’s a pre-definition of number of primes. Sharon: You actually preempted my next question, which is on Lima, on that task force, looking at generative AI, where is it at? That is definitely a different model than authoritarian states. Are there a dozen primes? Kathleen: Sure.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Roblox cofounder and CEO David Baszucki and a16z’s Jonathan Lai look discuss the ways AI is changing games and virtual worlds and how we create them. [00:40] As we go down, there’s probably a natural 2 or 3 clustering of general bigger, fatter type models in a company like ours.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Marco: Yeah, and that was definitely new. David: It feels like we are entering a new platform shift with AI. How are you thinking about generative AI? And so all that, I think, this shift towards more of a real-time business is something that AI definitely will accelerate.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

And it was a lot about one, high definition 2d photos. And what do we not stand for, so you got to substact away all the stuff that you are definitely not. If you don’t go with Dobble you should definitely learn about 3D. Justin Scott So back in the day, back in the day, this is back in digital cameras, right?

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Making the argument that AI will replace customer success teams were: Kathy Isaac , vice president of customer success at Carbide; and Allastair Meffen , vice president of customer experience at Definitive Healthcare. The same research suggests AI-powered automation will yield productivity gains of up to 50% by 2025.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 25, 2024

As a brief grasp of the definition, SaaS encompasses cloud-based software solutions designed to streamline and automate various aspects of the delivery process. Generative AI Though generative AI is a new technology, it has noticeably changed all the fields we are used to dealing with.

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User Pilot

JUNE 12, 2024

If you’re seriously considering growing in your product owner career, there are certain tools that you definitely need to know of. Gartner’s webinar on the use of generative AI for product professionals : Incredibly relevant in today’s landscape, learn how to drive product adoption with generation AI services.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Meet ChatGPT: The account executive’s AI personal assistant What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a generative AI tool that uses natural language processing to understand and respond to your queries. It’s like having a conversation with a real human — powered by advanced AI.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Experiment with AI, but dont get carried away. With generative AI becoming more and more accessible, Victor Riparbelli , co-founder and CEO of Synthesia , encouraged CS teams to take a day to try out new tools. The motion this year didnt hold back, asserting that AI will replace most of your CS team by 2030.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Talk a little bit about generative AI specifically today. How is this technology different from the AI of your PhD in 1991? I think that is a terrible way to approach it and has the very likely risk of just making them angry, right, which is definitely not the right outcome. Marty: Well, it’s epic, isn’t it?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I think AI is doing something similar, or maybe even more powerful. Most of the LLMs today that we’re accessing are just text-based or image generation-based. How is applying generative AI to design actually different from just text or images? The question I have is about the format.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 14, 2023

I’ve reinforced others’ comments about how generative AI tools allow us to tackle more ambitious projects , reduce the activation energy needed to get started and get to the finish line. Introverts and Men I’m definitely on the introvert end of the spectrum–maybe even “on the spectrum” itself.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

As an enterprise customer, you definitely want your (artificial) data analyst to be sober, so this problem needs to be solved before. As far as I know, most AI experts are confident that it won’t take too long until this is solved. This is super relevant for all enterprise SaaS companies, and GPT3 can be a real game changer here.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

I’ve mentioned that generative AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney allow me to be more ambitious with my projects than I would otherwise have been. Here’s a recent LinkedIn post version of the micro entry linked above. So I am now some level of POSSE compliant– a real thing , I kid you not–and writing daily!

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Sales Hacker

JULY 26, 2023

Meet ChatGPT: The account executive’s AI personal assistant What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is a generative AI tool that uses natural language processing to understand and respond to your queries. It’s like having a conversation with a real human — powered by advanced AI.

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Unbounce

JUNE 6, 2023

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Smart Copy can spin up everything from copy and imagery to a full-blown advertising plan. Could AI actually, seriously, build a whole marketing campaign on its own? Definitely you can do really good marketing campaigns. [00:28:10] Not design that image. So it’s super cool.

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Unbounce

JULY 12, 2023

I have a number of news aggregators that come to me every day on AI, and I spend 30 to 40 minutes a day, and it’s hard to keep up. But some of the things that have recently caught my attention are that I listened to the Google Live show, and they’ve just announced their generative AI. So definitely a concern.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

a text-generating AI, and according to OpenAI , it can generate text in a dialog format, which “makes it possible to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”. Des Traynor: Let’s do some quick definitions to ground everyone.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 17, 2023

The Definition of AI Conversational Intelligence AI Conversational Intelligence refers to the ability of artificial intelligence systems to engage in natural and seamless conversations with humans. Generative AI: Generative AI models, such as GPT-3, have taken conversational AI to a new level.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

So definitely the right person to talk to in terms [00:03:00] of what’s going on right now with search and the overall space. Sophie Buonassisi: Definitely. That would include then chat, GPT and search GPT and perplexity and grok Gemini, Google’s kind, own AI experience. Mike Walrath: You did both.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Be sure to demonstrate rigor around testing, validation, and safety of your generative AI solutions to engender trust before deploying such cutting edge capabilities in high-stakes settings. Barchi told us that his team’s definition of ROI depends on the use case.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

First, let’s define AI … The AI label is getting slapped on a lot of things these days, and I’m actually ok with that – it’s a short, handy, evocative term, useful as long as we get its definition straight. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.”

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Having a wide array of criteria to set as parameters for your customized report is not a requirement but definitely a big plus. Databox offers comprehensive data analysis, especially with Databox’s generative AI. Data sharing abilities. Data calculation.

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