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

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Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text. 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.

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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

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In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. remains the largest interchange and software market, Matt predicts a loosening of regulatory constraints.

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

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This gets more challenging when you have stakeholders who aren’t the ones buying the software. I already have a solution.” Then, in 2017, with around $50M in revenue, BILL added payment capabilities. If you screw up one payment, customers are going to be angry. There was no software yet. That’s how you go long.

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Dear SaaStr: How Big Should The Addressable Market Be to Go into Vertical SaaS?

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and Is the app so core, or at least is on a path to become so core, that they can charge $20,000+ a year for it? Even a fairly small business can pay $10,000-$20,000 a year for one app, usually. There’s a whole other category of apps SMBs and SMEs can afford that cost $99-$299 a month or so. Or at least $10,000 at a minimum?

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Harness the Full Power of Integrated Payments to Drive Revenue

Your payments integration is more powerful than you think. In today’s complex business landscape, treating payments as just a software feature is a missed opportunity for significant growth and customer acquisition. With the right partner, payments can become a strategy that leads to competitive advantages.

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Is AI Penetration … Slowing Down? Ramp Says Possibly

SaaStr

Even more telling: OpenAI, despite maintaining market leadership at 33.9%, has actually seemingly lost some ground from its peak share levels. The spending data captures signatures and payments, not the decision-making process that began quarters earlier. While overall AI penetration among U.S. Skills bottlenecks are widening.

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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. Navan’s move could signal the opening of long-awaited floodgates for B2B software companies that have been waiting on the sidelines since the market downturn of 2022-2023. But Figma is a crazy outlier.

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