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The Early Days: How Veeva Hit $100m ARR With Just $3m Raised — And a Deep Vertical Focus

SaaStr

Veeva is the dominant cloud software provider for life sciences – serving pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies with mission-critical applications for drug development, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and commercial operations. You have to have enough to hire people to dedicate on it.

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Why Web Accessibility Is Good for Business

FastSpring

Since 2010, she’s been leading teams, building websites, web applications for nonprofits, K through 12, higher education, government, businesses of all sizes. And so I think there are a lot of self-taught developers that just don’t know. And I’m giving that a bad description.

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The HubSpot AI Playbook: How Yamini Rangan Is Leading the Most Aggressive B2B AI Transformation

SaaStr

HubSpot now has 95% of their engineering team using AI tools daily, customers seeing 70-80% ticket resolution rates with AI agents, and a fundamental reimagining of what B2B software can be. “If you’re not seeing that [excitement], it’s brutal, but you got the wrong team,” she emphasized. .”

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Everything Now is Just So Much Faster in The AI Age. Have You Adjusted?

SaaStr

“I just get so much more done today with the AI on the team instead of the humans on the team.” — leading CMO to me, last week. I’ve been in B2B software now for 20+ years (!). Same APIs, same databases, same development cycles. Users report feeling “helpless” in other project management tools.

AI 179
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Sam Blond + Jason Lemkin “GTM in 2025: How It’s Changed, How It’s Changing, and What Hasn’t Changed (Yet)”

SaaStr

Wiz discovered a direct correlation between territory size and productivity: the tighter the territories, the more effective their sales team became. Contrary to conventional wisdom, hiring based solely on restaurant experience wasn’t effective.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. I was a software developer, a product person. Get tickets here.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

Companies which don’t use mental models risk unleashing mayhem with poor choices or becoming bloated and bureaucratic by reducing the volume and speed at which decisions are made - both scenarios are undesirable and will impact growth. OKRs are a useful mental model - they make it crystal clear what people and teams should be striving for.