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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

SaaStr

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average.

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The Early Days: 5 Things Vanta Got Right, And 5 It Got Wrong, Getting to First $10m ARR

SaaStr

” This approach gave them insights no amount of customer development interviews could provide. More importantly, customers on annual contracts used Vanta continuously rather than just for audit preparation, fundamentally changing how they thought about the product. Would you use it? Would you pay for it?”

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

SaaStr

billion valuation after 175M round Scale AI : $29 billion valuation / “sale” with Meta’s $14.3 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 in funding xAI : $6.4 billion stake Waymo : $10.5

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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. So during the intro, I kind of talked about how you run here’s Waldo recruiting.

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How to create more effective job descriptions for customer success and professional services roles

ChurnZero

This is a guest article by Swati Garg , founder and CEO, Melo Associates , and Lindsay Lynch , senior recruitment consultant, Melo Associates , a recruitment firm focused on customer success hiring for SaaS and tech companies nationwide. Assist in negotiating contracts and renewals.

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SaaS sales for startup leaders

Chart Mogul

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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Best Applicant Tracking Systems for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Whether youre a startup , an SMB , or a global enterprise , the right ATS can streamline your recruitment process, save time, and help attract top talent in a competitive market. Recruitee Best Collaborative Recruiting ATS Pricing: Key Features: Ideal Use Case: 4. Whats the difference between an ATS and a recruitment CRM?