Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

If one thing is certain about generative AI, it’s that no one knows exactly how it will play out from a product or user experience perspective. How will creative AI models change our expectations of what we can do with computers? What’s the scale of the opportunity that AI presents?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Is less more?

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Sharing our mental model on gen AI in SaaS Over the past twelve months, like many others, I’ve been diving deep into generative AI and its implications for SaaS companies, as well as what it means for us as early-stage SaaS investors. and Tome for presentations, Rows for spreadsheets, and mem for note-taking.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. Or maybe you’re still determining how generative AI will benefit your customers, and right now it’s a nice-to-have for certain users.

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2025

Identifying problems before customers can : Recognizing pain points that customers might not even articulate yet, which presents opportunities to experiment and leapfrog competitors. “It’s no longer possible to build a fintech product at scale without using AI,” states Taylor. ” The biggest impact?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Creativity In The Enterprise: When you look at the impact of generative AI and realize workflow is getting reduced and, in some cases, eliminated, what does that mean for peoples’ careers? If they had more time for the surface areas of possibilities, they could present better solutions. a game changer!

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 5, 2024

They addressed the top concern for CISOs: the impact of generative AI on enterprise security. Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions: 1. What is the biggest security threat that enterprises face today?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There’s a level of productivity you can improve by leveraging AI with things like content generation. AI can build job posts for you, proofread, edit, and update verbiage. Ai made it possible to engage with students, teachers, and others within the platform, save on customer service headcount, and scale the company.

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IT World

JULY 18, 2023

At its annual Inspire event for resellers Tuesday, Microsoft offered new details on how it is rolling out generative AI capabilities across its product line, announcing that Copilot will be available to customers for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Accel Partner Philipe Botteri and Synthesia’s co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli deep dive into the lessons learned about building an Enterprise-focused Generative AI company and scaling it. The bar is high, and you probably won’t be the best at building a fully generalized LLM model unless you’re Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI. In this presentation at Saastr, we broke down the major questions for startups building with AI : the layer, the moat, the market, & the depth of AI to use. I argued that the best sales processes are sales engineering sales.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As you think about leveraging AI and optimizing R&D efficiency, it’s worthwhile to know how the best companies are doing it. Cloud100 is moving rapidly, with 55% launching a generative AI product or feature in the last eight months alone. But how do you do it? We have Klaviyo and others testing public waters.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But generative AI will change this and open up a massive opportunity for consumer startups. 57% of respondents identified customization, expertise, or developing a personal relationship with a provider as the primary reason they preferred 1:1 in-person services—all preferences generative AI currently seems well-positioned to address.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

First, it models out the annual cash flow of a businesses (say 10 years out), and discounts the future value of those cash flows back to present value (this is why software businesses are sensitive to interest rates - as rates go up, so does the discount rate). , you’d build a DCF (discounted cash flow) analysis.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The new product, Mokker.ai, uses generative AI to create professional photos from a single product image. Another example from the P9 Family is Qwilr , a platform that lets you create beautiful sales proposals, presentations, and other collateral. Their new AI page builder makes it much easier to get started.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gartner's webinar focuses on the crucial role of generative AI in evolving AI service offerings, aimed at the PM team for understanding GenAI's impact. A product webinar is a virtual seminar or presentation focused on showcasing and discussing a specific product. Book the demo today! What is a product webinar?

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hence, there is a growing need for and importance of Generative AI governance. So, to help organizations implement ethical GenAI governance while leveraging The Power of Gen-AI in Regulatory Compliance , we’ve compiled some of our essential tips for getting started. What is Generative AI Governance?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. 2 hours Average time users spend on Character.AI

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

In this post, well break down what LLMs are, how they differ from AI tools, and why understanding this distinction is key to building successful AI-powered SaaS applications. The past few years have seen an explosion in generative AI AI systems that create content.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Generative AI : Generates diverse media types, assisting in strategy creation, predictive modeling and product development, impacting content marketing and customer service. Synthetic data Synthetic data, as the name suggests, is data that’s been artificially generated when real-world data is insufficient or non-existent.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

But the past few years presented challenges that caught even the most-seasoned CEOs off guard. Below are some edited highlights from this year’s speakers, where they share their experiences launching products, navigating tough times, and generally running 21st century software businesses.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Milken himself is said to have credited (or blamed) VisiCalc and spreadsheets for the growth of the Private Equity (PE) industry, since cash flows vs. debt payments could be easily monitored, and a formerly complex net present value calculation now just involved a formula for a cell. billion, against almost $2.8

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IT World

JULY 3, 2023

By now, virtually everyone agrees that powerful generative AI needs to be regulated.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

However, the Digital Good space, particularly in SaaS and general entertainment, actually presents new opportunities with higher margins and a huge greenfield potential. Does that capture that fairly well? Jay Jia (14:35) Exactly, exactly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, FI senior leaders and board members are intrigued by new products like Microsoft 365 Copilot and how generative AI can automate their internal workflows (and improve their bottom lines). so that you can present your product as a solution to that problem.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 10, 2025

Generative AI has exploded by 2025. A new wave of AI-powered platforms now accelerates everything from content writing to video production to customer chat. Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. We also have a casual interview that we call the presentation interview.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 30, 2023

If I’m a consumer subscription company and I ask an AI “What is my 30 day customer retention, how has it trended over the last 6 months, and if it’s changing what’s causing the change?” This post and the information presented are intended for informational purposes only.

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IT World

MAY 10, 2023

As a competitor to Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant , Google announced Duet AI, which offers a number of generative AI tools for Google’s productivity apps within Workspace. Duet AI can also summarize conversations on Google Meet , a video conferencing service.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Unsurprisingly, a similar echo was heard at TSIA World INTERACT in May—doubling down on the fact that CS lags behind other customer-facing functions like support and service when it comes to AI adoption and innovation. But there are proven, compliant ways to drive impact with AI today. Tools like Chorus and Gong.io

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 12, 2024

It features as a guest Naveen Rao, a two-time AI founder who’s presently vice president of generative AI at Databricks. .” If you liked this episode, you can also listen to the other episode we published this week: Scoping the Enterprise LLM Market.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

The generative AI revolution has driven explosive growth in Large Language Model (LLM) applications. To build these AI-powered apps (chatbots, automated agents, RAG systems, etc.) You can also define custom templates for how text and metadata are combined, which improves how context is presented to the model.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

Satya at Microsoft said “Every AI app starts with data and having a comprehensive data and analytics platform is more important than ever.” ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.” ” Data is more important than ever!

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User Pilot

JULY 29, 2024

Visual product roadmaps : ProductPlan excels at creating visually appealing roadmaps that make presenting and communicating your product strategy easy. Workflow builder : Introduced in 2019 and enhanced with generative AI in 2023, the Workflow Builder allows users to automate routine tasks without requiring technical skills.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

During the test, you present potential customers with two or more options and ask which one they like the best. For example, you could present your users with two menu designs, a collapsible sidebar menu and a horizontal dropdown menu, and then solicit feedback on which of them is easier to navigate and better fits the overall website design.

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