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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

SaaStr

The Billion-Dollar AI Unicorn Factory The scale of AI startup funding isn’t just impressive — it’s existential for SaaS: The AI Billion-Dollar Club: OpenAI : $8.4 billion valuation after 175M round Scale AI : $29 billion valuation / “sale” with Meta’s $14.3 billion in funding xAI : $6.4

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

Companies are discovering that hiring AI talent or upskilling existing teams takes much longer than anticipated. Many organizations are stuck in “pilot purgatory”—running successful experiments but unable to scale them. This favors companies with strong enterprise sales capabilities over those relying on viral adoption.

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The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lexi Reese, Gusto COO uses her 20+ years of experience to provide advice on building high performing teams using authenticity, empathy and logic. Lexi explains the importance of team trust, driver and passenger mindsets, and much more. So a playbook on scaling high performance organizations in 30 bit minutes. So big, big scale.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

SaaStr

Companies can meet stringent quality requirements at a fraction of the cost of in-house teams, while accelerating their AI initiatives. Why It Matters : Customer support teams are drowning in tickets, with resolution times getting longer, not shorter. Businesses use us for customer support, leads qualification, and more.

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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Overwhelmed IT team? How to scale without adding headcount

BetterCloud

Every IT team is grappling with the same reality: the ever-widening chasm between the demands placed on IT and the resources at their disposal. Automated systems, on the other hand, can provide continuous vigilance, ensuring consistent application of security updates and proactive identification of potential weaknesses.

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5 lessons learned starting a new team within our sales organization

Intercom, Inc.

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. The opportunity emerged out of a shift in how we practice sales. We had split into two distinct but complementary functions.