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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

They were two developers who had lived through the nightmare of subscription infrastructure while working at Elevate. The Problem Was Real: Apple and Google’s app stores weren’t giving developers the data they needed. ” required weeks of developer time to answer. By the time they raised their $1.5

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

SaaStr

This wasn’t just an improvement it fundamentally changed how brands could engage with SMS marketing. The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2. Black Friday playbook) 3.

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

SaaStr

But here’s the uncomfortable truth the original convergence narrative missed: these markets ARE competing. growth rate vs. Conquest Numbers Let’s separate the happy convergence talk from the harsh conquest reality: SaaS: The Steady Performer Under Siege $295 billion market in 2025 with 18.4%

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

Fresh data from Ramp’s AI Index suggests that the meteoric rise in business AI spending might be showing signs of deceleration, raising questions about whether we’re witnessing market maturation or beginning to hit a potential adoption ceiling: The numbers tell a nuanced story. While overall AI penetration among U.S.

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A Look Back: How $13 Billion Ramp Began To Scale with Co-Founder and CTO Karim Atiyah

SaaStr

“Even with a bad hand, if the potential reward is great enough, taking a risk can make mathematical sense.” Market Selection: Tackle Problems with High Barriers to Entry The financial services industry presents massive barriers to entry most successful banks are centenarians, with some like Ax being over 160 years old.

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From Platforms to Protocols: Making Sense of Decentralized Social Media (and What it Means for the Future)

Buffer Resources

And the idea that, should a platform move in a direction they don’t like (as is the case with some disillusioned folks on X/Twitter) or disappear from the market completely (which would happen in the case of the U.S. TikTok ban ), leaving the network means abandoning everything they’ve worked so hard to build there. 

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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.