Tom Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2025

Where venture capital flows, innovation follows. And for more than a decade, few faucets have been watched more closely than Y Combinator. An analysis of their investment patterns since 2020 doesn’t just reveal the accelerator’s strategy—it provides a map to the entire startup ecosystem’s next chapter. With Demo Day approaching this week & inspired by Jamesin Seidel’s YC Series A analysis , I wondered how YC investment patterns have changed since 2020.

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SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2025

Top Posts: #1. The Top 10 SaaStr Learnings from Mary Meeker’s Latest Report on AI #2. Snowflake Buys Crunchy Data for $250m, Databricks Buys Neon for $1B. The New AI Database Battle. #3. 8 Out of 10 SaaS Founders Are Burning Cash Faster Than Ever — And Why YC is On Fire (SVB’s 2025 Data Breakdown) #4. AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton #5.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 8, 2025

Too many business decisions hinge on habits, instinct, or the loudest person in the room. Hypothesis testing offers a better way. Instead of working off. The post How To Use Hypothesis Testing to Drive Revenue appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2025

Dear SaaStr: I Fired My VP of Sales. What Now? It’s tough and there may be some bumps. But honestly things probably will be better in just a week or two. What you do need to do is have a plan. You need to act fast and smart to stabilize and rebuild. Here’s what you should do next: Step in as Interim VP of Sales (If Needed) If you don’t have someone ready to step up, you’ll need to take the reins yourself temporarily.

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The Daily Egg

JUNE 8, 2025

Too many business decisions hinge on habits, instinct, or the loudest person in the room. Hypothesis testing offers a better way. Instead of working off. The post How To Use Hypothesis Testing to Drive Revenue appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

JUNE 8, 2025

So Rory from Scale, Harry from 20VC and me were back this week on another deep dive on just what’s happening in B2B today: The latest mega raise from Thoma Bravo If OpenAI is eating B2B The MCP threat to SaaS When to Hold and When to Fold as a VC and much more! It started off admittedly awkward with a guest VC who was pretty harsh on SaaS and B2B.

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