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25 predictions for SaaS in 2025

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Machiel Kunst , Founder and CEO of Bluebird 2025 will be a breakout year for SaaS, driven by renewed VC funding, increased and smarter hiring, and innovative AI tools. Companies will scale faster with flexible solutions replacing rigid legacy systems.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

And then we try to do just a final presentation or some kind of exercise if it’s engineering or coding exercise and then we basically make the offer contingent on references. I think the failing of Salesforce is that they didn’t continue to innovate, you know, and catch up to that stuff themselves. So there’s a lot.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower SaaS

But hiring a lead developer, or even a VP of Engineering, can create a gap between the founders and the developers. Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. Closing the Gap: Hiring A Fractional Startup CTO We’re not suggesting that early-stage startups should hire a full-time CTO.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. As a US citizen, it’s very clear to me that many of our best and brightest go into this field.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. So we were stuck.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

SaaStr

Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. ” Then it turns out that a VP of engineering doesn’t have time in their day to do searching, and writing outbound emails, and so on and so forth.