SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

Ray Wang of Constellation Research and Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Officer, had me back after a long time on DisrupTV. It was a really great deep-dive on where venture is right now: Multiples have fallen back to 2015 and 2016 Why VCs can’t justify investing at $100m+ valuations in many cases today How optimism is bleeding out of VC, and realism has seeped in Why the “next round” often isn’t coming anymore, and how everything got inverted in 2021 How you actually get cash-

Interviewing

Tom Tunguz

MAY 7, 2023

I’ve been tinkering with LLMs. First, I created a chatbot using all my blog posts. Then I created a model to produce blog entries based on my writing. As I went through this process, I asked myself some questions along the way : Does the ML model ingest my posts & keep them? What if I’d like to remove them from the logs or training set or output for others?

ChatGPT

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 10 Crystal Clear Signs Your VP of Sales Just Isn’t Going to Work Out (Updated) Here’s How Much Your VCs Actually Make A Look Back: Asana at ~$60,000,000 in ARR with Dustin Moskovitz CEO (Video + Transcript) Yes, You Need to Fundraise 52 Weeks a Year.

Enterprise

SaaStr

MAY 7, 2023

So we’re just about a month out now from the 4th SaaStr Europa. After two incredible years in Paris, and our highest NPS event ever at the beach last year in Barcelona— many of you have asked for it so this time SaaStr Europa is coming to LONDON. And we’re already trending upwards of 4,000 of your fellow SaaS CEOs, Revenue Leaders, Executives, and Investors joining us for 2.5 days at the Tobacco Docks on 6-7 June.

Venture Capital

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!

Data