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

SaaStr

The company later clarified it didn’t actually “replace” Salesforce with pure AI — it consolidated data onto its own tech stack using tools like Neo4j and built new interfaces. The numbers tell the story: Q1 2025 : 39% revenue growth year-over-year, with U.S. growth rate vs. SaaS’s 18.4%

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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. Companies must prove they have the growth, revenue, and users to warrant serious talent.

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The Top 10 Reasons to Attend 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

SaaStr

200+ dedicated workshops and braindates with the best in SaaS, Cloud and AI, from intimate small sessions to 20-50 person workshops from the best Our CRO + CEO Poker Night where we bring 200 top revenue leaders together with CEOs and founders of B2B / AI companies attending Our 4th annual CMO Summit for top CMOs and the CEOs that want to meet them!

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We Published 400+ LinkedIn Page Posts in the Past Year as a B2B Company — Here Are 9 Tactics That Worked for Us

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More time on LinkedIn = More engagement = More ads seen/clicked = More revenue. Tagging your partner organizations, influencers, or thought leaders at your company (your CEO, CTO, etc.) If I left each day to find something new to publish on social, I would have struggled to keep up and certainly would have missed some days. 

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. In this interview, David Sacks talks about how 70-80% of investor time is spent looking at AI. Q: What are the Odds of Success for a Startup to Hit $100M in Revenue? Some of these had a little revenue, and others had none. Should you sprinkle it in to compete?

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. The product marketer doesn’t make sense between $2M and $10M in revenue. Let’s jump right in.

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How SMB Digital Brands Can Win the Best Talent

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Why are you looking for a new job?

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