SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2025

Social media is full of hot takes about AI replacing developers, the death of software engineering, and whether we’re all doomed or destined for greatness. But here’s what it absolutely does: We can now build all the routine features in B2B software in far less than half the time. It had been done before.

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User Pilot

MAY 27, 2025

Requirements 5+ years product-led growth experience in SaaS – ideally in high-growth, global companies. He has led end-to-end product development across edtech and SaaS sectors, with a strong focus on product-led growth. Who would be a bad fit for this job? A person who was focused on B2C products.

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Management Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2C 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 20, 2025

With over 20 years of experience across RevOps, SalesOps, and MarketingOps, including time at IBM and high-growth SaaS companies, Navin has built a reputation as one of the sharpest operators in the game. I was at IBM for a fair bit of time, and in the last 10 years I’ve been in SaaS. I never had a SaaS role in my time at IBM.

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Engineering Sales Hiring Scale AI Search 106

SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

In our most recent episode of CRO Confidential , hosted by Sam Blond , Graham Moreno , VP of Worldwide Sales at Codium, shared invaluable insights on what drove this growth, the challenges they faced, and how other SaaS companies can replicate this success. The real impact?

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting AI 182

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Excellent Product Taste: You love creating beautiful, delightful user experiences and staying current with trends in the SaaS and AI industries. With a strong background in software engineering and an MBA in Lean Operations, she bridges technical depth with business acumen to deliver impactful solutions.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Prior to founding Klaviyo, Andrew worked in software engineering and product development, bringing a deep technical understanding to the marketing automation space. Don’t artificially limit your ambitions based on traditional SaaS metrics.

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Sales Hiring Marketing Scale B2C 239

Stax

JUNE 23, 2025

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. TL;DR An ACH API allows businesses to automate bank-to-bank payments—like ACH debits, credits, and recurring payments—by integrating directly with the ACH network via software.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2025

So Atlassian is the developer software engine that just keep going: $5.4 AI Now At The Center of All Core Apps, And Now Included — Not an Upsell or Add On A big change, and one I think will come to most SaaS and B2B leaders. AI is core, not a feature or add-on. #2.

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Scale Government Software Engineering compliance 203

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 1, 2023

If we assume some basic productivity gains in a typical SaaS company from AI in the next 12-24 months, how much more profitable will the business be? Sales development, content marketing, & software engineering strike me as the workstreams that will benefit immediately. Software engineering sees the greatest benefit.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Generative AI CTO Hire AI Sales Recruiting 443

TechEmpower SaaS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Rapid turnover, especially of senior or “A” developers. Developers aren’t aware of the progress of the current dev cycle, or even what’s in it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software Review Technical Review 390

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5 Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa. Straight from a SaaS CCO with Yellow.ai’s CCO with Shekar Murthy, Chief Customer Officer at Yellow.ai

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VP of Engineering Technical Cofounder Outsourcing Services CTO Coach 293

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Together they explore the transformative role of data, which has become an integral part of the production stack, and delve into the implications of this shift and explore how leveraging data within the architecture empowers developers to create more robust, intelligent, and scalable SaaS solutions.

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Artificial Intelligence AI ChatGPT Software Engineering 309

Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Kubernetes, containers, serverless, continuous deployment have transformed software building. These technologies fomented a movement that has changed software engineering: devops. Devops combines the responsibilities of software developers and infrastructure operations. Ambient computing.

DevOps as a Service 253

DevOps as a Service Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 253

Agile Payments

MAY 5, 2020

How to Start Your Career as a Software Engineer in a SAAS Company.

Software Engineering 68

Software Engineering Engineering Software SaaS 68

Chaotic Flow

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

SaaS startups, however, have unique advantages. Unlike consumer Internet products, SaaS products are essential business tools. SaaS customers take them very seriously. SaaS customers want to provide feedback and they want to see that feedback acted upon in a timely fashion. SaaS Customer Alignment Tip #13.

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Product Marketing Marketing SaaS Software Development 130

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products? Why is that?

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 247

SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Trustero aims to be the trust clearing house for SaaS businesses, replacing the need for a traditional approach to compliance through 3rd party consultancy. We’ve taken a new approach to GRC, using modern data and AI techniques, as opposed to simply building better tools for compliance practitioners.

Scale 244

Scale Banking compliance Forecasting 244

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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. SaaS companies may not be the most likely target when it comes to payment fraud , but it does happen.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

We hope our article will help you cut the clutter and scale your SaaS business to uncharted limits. 1 You Should Own a SaaS Company . SaaS (Software-as-a-service) is one of the main service models of cloud computing, alongside IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-service). Let’s dive in! #1

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Outsourcing Services Scale Outsourced Development Sales Hiring 200

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

2021 marked the second year of COVID and like other crises, the pandemic accelerated change, especially in technology pushing many technologies like SaaS, video conferencing, crypto/web3 deeper into the Perez deployment cycle. Every year I make a list of predictions and score last year’s predictions.

Scale 275

Scale Blockchain Banking Artificial Intelligence 275

FastSpring

DECEMBER 9, 2022

SaaS billing software automates one or more of the various aspects of the recurring billing process — payment processing, fulfillment, dunning, and more. With many payment processors, you’ll need additional software to manage complex recurring payments, taxes, chargebacks, dunning, and more. 3 Subscription Management Software.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 147

SaaStr

JULY 21, 2019

Want to know the top stories 100,000 other Cloud and SaaS enthusiasts are reading? Here are Top 6 cloud stories for this week: #1: “How Big Tech Companies Like Google and Facebook Set Salaries For Software Engineers”. #2: 3: “The Czech Cyber Billionaire Who Built a Fortune on Free Software”. #4:

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Cloud Software Engineering Engineering Software 153

Audacix

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And they've been ignored by most software engineers for a long time. Isn't it strange that the very people who build amazing software completely ignore other novel software that helps them secure their creations? Why do software engineers not like vulnerability scanning tools? Not the testing team.

Software Engineering 45

Software Engineering Engineering Software Outsourced Development 45

SaaS Metrics

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Software engineering is an important field that has seen a rapid evolution over the past few years. In particular, the concept of remote working has become increasingly prominent in this area, allowing software engineers to work from anywhere in the world.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Metrics 40

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Co-founder and CEO at Greenhouse, Daniel Chait, sits down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share what’s new at Greenhouse, a successful recruiting software company at $200M in ARR today. You could do vanilla 101 SaaS practices and succeed. Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today?

Sales Hiring 281

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 281

Kellblog

JULY 21, 2021

I’m delighted to say that tomorrow’s SaaS Product Power Breakfast will feature one of my favorite people to riff with, Alation cofounder Aaron Kalb. How did your psychology and software engineering background help you as a product leader? We may get a little data-oriented decision-maker mixed in as well.)

Data 98

Data Software Engineering SaaS Engineering 98

FastSpring

MAY 6, 2022

Data science has a key difference from software engineering. In software engineering, when you work on an existing system, you can build on what past coders have done before you. I learned a lot listening to Cedric’s story. Here are five of my biggest takeaways from the interview: 1. Data Formulas Are Subtly Unique.

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Data Scale Sales Hiring Software Engineering 147

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 25, 2022

SaaS applications will use the CDW as a backend for both reading & writing. In the future, software products will build their apps on top of the CDW to take advantage of centralized security, faster procurement processes, & adjacent data. Software engineers measure the success of their efforts through up-time.

Data 166

Data Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Engineering 166

Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They are dynamic, versatile, and have the ability to overcome a wide range of engineering obstacles. We are glad to share a list of 22 leading full stack developers you must follow in 2022 to stay in touch with the latest trends and developments in the SaaS and IT spaces. #1 Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google 279.1K

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I’m excited to be here today to share a few stories from the SaaS world. I got my start in software 25 years ago. So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?”

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Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 196

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

Now, before we jump to the idea that software engineers will soon be relics of the past, let’s hit pause. They’re changing the game on how engineers work and the kinds of projects they dive into. Let’s peel back the layers on what low-code and no-code tech means for the software engineering world.

Software Engineering 40

Software Engineering Engineering Software Software Development 40

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Frontegg

JULY 23, 2020

The debate behind build versus buy is a lively one in the world of SaaS product development, and although it can be discussed ad infinitum, we do need to sit back for a minute before we build a SaaS application and consider the following: What are the key reasons that drive a company to build vs. buy? Levels of Customization.

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SaaS Payments Development Payment Services Payment Solutions 98

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

This post is for other early stage SaaS companies who are similarly considering whether some of these new forms of capital make sense for their business. Founders agree to a salary cap (based off of the average salary of a software engineer in the nearest major city), and can increase their salary up to that cap as the business makes money.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStock

JANUARY 31, 2019

A software engineer by education, Kieran very quickly figured out that he would be average at best when it came to building software products. The post How to move from Marketing Qualified Leads to Product Qualified Leads appeared first on SaaS Revolution Hub.

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Marketing Software Engineering Education Engineering 103

CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There’s a feature arms race underway, and SaaS is fueling the fire. The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Read more about this in my prior post.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Scale Benchmarks 130