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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. ” Negotiation philosophy : “I have apples for sale.

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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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How LLMs Are Trained: From Raw Data to SaaS Disruption

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Whether youre a developer tuning a model or a business leader integrating AI into your product, knowing how LLMs are trained helps you make better decisions in leveraging this technology. LLM developers pull in text from every corner of the digital world.

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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. They work 24/7, never have bad days, and get better with every interaction.

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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. While scaling from 3 to 75 go-to-market team members, Codeium / Windsurf found that AI transformed their sales process in completely different ways depending on the size of the customer.

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Okta’s Playbook to PLG, Developer Experience, and Enterprise ARR

SaaStr

Okta’s VP of Engineering, Monica Bajaj, and Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing, Priya Ramamurthi, share Okta’s playbook to PLG, developer experience, and Enterprise ARR. Product-led outperformers generate ten percentage points higher in ARR and 50% higher in valuations than sales-led growth outperformers.