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Top 10 Interesting Learnings From Figma’s IPO Docs … That You May Have Missed

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The Developer Invasion: 30% of Users Write Code Perhaps most surprising: developers represent ~30% of Figma’s user base during Q1 2025. This massive developer adoption through Dev Mode shows Figma successfully bridging the design-to-code gap—traditionally one of the most friction-filled handoffs in software development.

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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

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Both started SMB (Monday even more so), and Both have now gone more enterprise (Monday even more) But still with the vast majority of their customers SMB. Enterprise Expansion : While maintaining strong SMB growth, Monday.com has successfully moved upmarket. Their ecosystem extends their reach globally. Its not either / or.

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

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This isn’t just another software success story. It’s the emergence of a new category that’s attracting billions in investment and fundamentally disrupting the $500B+ software development market. Enterprise-Grade at Scale Major companies like Zillow and HubSpot use Replit for production systems.

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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

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Veeva founder CEO Peter Gassner came to SaaStr to share just how they got to the first $100m ARR selling enterprise vertical SaaS … while raising only $3 million (!). ” His reasoning: 30 Years of Enterprise Software Experience : “I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old, that was 30 years ago.

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams.

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Anthropic May Never Catch OpenAI. But It’s Already 40% as Big.

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This consumer base provides: Brand recognition : ChatGPT has become synonymous with AI for many users Data flywheel : Millions of interactions improve model training Market validation : Consumer enthusiasm drives enterprise interest Revenue diversification : Both subscription and API revenue streams Anthropic’s Enterprise-First Approach Anthropic (..)

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

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GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. They ended up shipping Copilot for Business for non-GitHub Enterprise users, which was a commercial success. Other places this feedback loop worked well were: Adoption loop metrics.

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