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NEW SaaStr Annual Speakers! CEO Gitlab, CEO + CTO Gusto, CBO Perplexity and More

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The post NEW SaaStr Annual Speakers! CEO Gitlab, CEO + CTO Gusto, CBO Perplexity and More appeared first on SaaStr. I mean, about as good as it gets!

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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

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"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI." Back in the day, my CTO just wanted 3 tiers: entry level, top IC, manager. In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. That was it.

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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution

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AI and Cybersecurity: How Rubrik’s Co-Founder Built a $1B+ ARR Platform While Joining the AI Revolution Lessons from Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder and CTO of Rubrik, on scaling cyber resilience platforms, building multiple product curves, and implementing AI across both products and operations.

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Top 10 Reasons SaaStr Annual 2025 Will Be Better Than Ever!! May 13-15 in SF Bay!

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With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! If youre serious about scaling software, you cant afford to miss it. It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! It’s May 13-15 in SF Bay, again on our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus !

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

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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. Traditional legal software companies like Thomson Reuters have spent years trying to add comparable AI capabilities to LexisNexis.

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June 30, 2025: The Date Where If Your Team Hasn’t Rolled Out Truly Great AI Into Production Yet… It’s Time to Reboot the Team

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Workflow transformation that creates new value. Loom’s AI meeting summaries didn’t just transcribe—they created entirely new workflows around asynchronous collaboration. Traditional software engineering skills and AI engineering skills have meaningful overlap, but they’re not the same thing.

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SaaStr Annual + SaaStr AI Summit 2025: Meet The Best of The Best in Cloud, B2B and AI! May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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We’re bringing together the true founders, revenue leaders and product visionaries that are actually driving the next wave of AI first software. SaaStr Annual + SaaStr AI Summit 2025! Not talking heads. Not theorists. The executives making it happen. 250+ speakers. 12,000+ SaaS leaders. 100B+ in market cap. 250+ speakers. 250+ speakers.

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