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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

These are venture capital fever dream numbers. In the AI coding space, we’re seeing growth rates that would make even the most aggressive VCs blush: Cursor (Anysphere) : $500M ARR at $9.9B funding from Creandum Windsurf : $40M ARR, seemingly acquired by OpenAI for $3B These aren’t typical B2B metrics.

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Building and Scaling an AI Company in 2025: What Top VCs Really Want to See with Zetta, Glasswing and B Capital

SaaStr

A deep dive with three leading AI investors who collectively manage billions in venture capital and have backed some of the most innovative companies in artificial intelligence. She brings over two decades of experience in technology venture capital and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Business.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Patrick Arippol kickstarted his professional path with an engineering degree, followed by an MBA from Stanford. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. And the other thing I learned is it’s very, very hard to build a two-sided marketplace, Sam. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. So it’s API first, even for our own services that are being consumed in new products that we are building. For some context as well, I actually worked with Niall when I was at Box back in the day as a founding member of the platform team there.

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The Alternative Funding Options For SaaS Start-ups Cheat Sheet

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Investment Model Lighter Capital makes investments of $50,000 to $3 million—up to ?

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GV’s Kate Aronowitz and Vanessa Cho on leading through design

Intercom, Inc.

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), Kate: At Facebook, we started this new form of front-end engineering and design called UI engineering. They had to make their own. where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way.

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