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AI is On Fire. But Will There Be Enough Decacorn Exits?

SaaStr

billion funding round led by Lightspeed Stripe (AI-enhanced payments): $65 billion valuation Databricks (AI/ML platform): $43 billion valuation Potential Decacorn Exits: The IPO Pipeline Based on current valuations, revenue metrics, and market positioning, here are the companies most likely to achieve decacorn status ($10B+) at exit.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

I hope these notes help you get a sense of the energy, trends, and ideas shaping the future of AI and AI Engineering. Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions. Both show code solutions on their respective platforms applying OTel.

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Top Retention and Churn Product Manager Roles (+ Candidate Spotlight)

User Pilot

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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What Is an ACH API and How Does It Work?

Stax

If you take a lot of ACH payments, then leveraging an ACH API can streamline your processes and ensure you’re able to take payments in an efficient and secure manner. Join the Payments-Led Growth Movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts.

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SaaS Payment Processing: 10 Questions to Ask When Comparing Solutions

FastSpring

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. And one of the cornerstones of any solution’s security measures should be PCI DSS compliance.

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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

That’s much more work than the automatic credit card payment with AWS. Can you imagine a site reliability engineer managing 15 to 20 tokens, coordinating with finance teams to ensure proper treasury management, while ensuring high uptime? Third, software engineers decentralize only a subset of the app.

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SaaS Billing Software: 7 Tools in 3 Categories & How to Choose

FastSpring

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. You’ll still need a separate solution for payment processing, taxes, chargebacks, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software. 3 Payment Processors.