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Top 10 Interesting Learnings From Figma’s IPO Docs … That You May Have Missed

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The Developer Invasion: 30% of Users Write Code Perhaps most surprising: developers represent ~30% of Figma’s user base during Q1 2025. This massive developer adoption through Dev Mode shows Figma successfully bridging the design-to-code gap—traditionally one of the most friction-filled handoffs in software development.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

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This isn’t just another software success story. It’s the emergence of a new category that’s attracting billions in investment and fundamentally disrupting the $500B+ software development market. The best AI products don’t feel like software—they feel like collaborating with an intelligent assistant.

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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

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Keys to HubSpot’s Success: The “Hub” Strategy : HubSpot mastered the land-and-expand model, starting with Marketing Hub and strategically expanding to Sales Hub, Service Hub, CMS Hub, Operations Hub, Commerce Hub, and Content Hub.

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

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It’s a good set of people that can work together and be multidisciplinary – software, engineering, product management, strategy – a cohesive group.” I was a software developer, product person. Why a dozen? ” 9. .” I thought that’s the most creative thing to do. That was my plan.”

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams.

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How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO

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GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. Copilot for support implementation has been a winner, followed by partner strategy. The support team can focus on more complex problems.

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Anthropic May Never Catch OpenAI. But It’s Already 40% as Big.

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Different Paths to Success OpenAI’s Consumer-First Strategy OpenAI bet big on consumer adoption, and it paid off spectacularly. This suggests that Anthropic’s strategy of targeting enterprise customers with premium, safety-focused solutions may be more sustainable long-term than the consumer-first approach. more revenue.

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