Sat.Jul 19, 2025

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The Sheer Momentum You Need For an Enduring IPO in SaaS: 63% Average Growth

SaaStr

We took a look at the SaaS leaders that are doing well today, in today’s world and that have IPO’d in the past few years. Samsara, Toast, Klaviyo, ServiceTitan and Procore. Their Average Growth Rate in Year Before IPO: 63% (excluding prior generation) The Numbers *Top performer from prior generation of SaaS IPOs (2010-2015 era) The SaaS Leaders: 1.

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Seeking a Gainsight Competitor? Here are My Recommendations as a CS Lead

User Pilot

What’s your biggest challenge with customer success? Onboarding new users effectively. Driving adoption of key features. Collecting and acting on user feedback. How are you currently tracking user activation? With product analytics tools, but it’s hard to see the whole picture. Manually, which is time-consuming and often inaccurate. We aren’t formally tracking activation at the moment.

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Dear SaaStr: When Is a Good Time for Founders to Sell Some of Their Stock?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: When Is a Good Time for Founders to Sell Some of Their Stock? What are the rough guidelines for “seconday” sales if you aren’t Stripe or Databricks or OpenAI? Secondary sales can be a great tool—when done right. I was offered secondary when Adobe Sign / EchoSign was crossing $10m ARR, and I wish I’d taken it. It would helped me push on without worrying too much about making nothing in the end.

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Website Redesign: 11-Step Process From Audit to Launch

Neil Patel

Think a website redesign is just about fixing your homepage or refreshing the layout? Think again. Too often, these projects focus on changing the look or chasing the latest trends. But if your redesign doesn’t fix what’s actually broken, your site won’t perform any better or win you more business. In this guide, I’ll show you what a website redesign really involves and walk you through my agency’s 11-step process — including mistakes to avoid.

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Airflow Best Practices for ETL/ELT Pipelines

Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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Hallucinations Aren’t The Issue They Once Were in AI. But They Are Still Worry #1 For B2B Leaders.

SaaStr

The paradox of AI in 2025: Models are dramatically better, but deployment anxiety remains sky-high. In ICONIQ’s latest State of AI report —300 AI company executives were surveyed about their biggest deployment challenges. The results reveal a fascinating contradiction that every AI builder needs to understand. The good news : Hallucinations have objectively improved.

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Create a User Persona: Your Blueprint for Product Growth [+ Template]

User Pilot

As a product manager, I’ve come across all the common obstacles to creating personas. And what I’ve learned is that, besides getting stakeholder buy-in, you need a solid process to collect high-quality data, organize user segments, and create story-driven personas that are easy to follow. Otherwise, you’ll end up with guesswork-based personas that aren’t actionable enough to drive product decisions nor relatable enough to inspire, and the work of all your company’s teams will stay disconnected f