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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Their patented TwAP technology that lets customers opt-in with a single click, automatically opening their messages app with a pre-composed text. The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2.

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Your Top Tips to Building Your First Sales Team?

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Your Top Tips to Building A First Sales Team? If you only hire one, you won’t know if success (or failure) is due to the individual or your process. Later, you can develop formal training processes, but in the beginning, your involvement is critical. Poor performers cost you money and drag down the team.

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10 Ways AI Will Change Sales Forever. It’s Already Happening, In Fact.

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If you’re skeptical about AI in sales because of hallucinations or poor experiences, Lemkin suggests it’s likely because you haven’t seen a well-trained AI. ” and your AI will deliver a perfect technical answer instantly. While not replacing the absolute best humans, they’re better than 90% of the team.

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

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The Great Spending Showdown: AI vs SaaS in 2025/2026 — What Every B2B Leader Needs to Know We’re witnessing the most dramatic shift in enterprise tech spending since the cloud migration began 15 years ago. The answer today is: very few. But that could change rapidly as AI tooling improves and more case studies emerge.

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

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✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 23, 2025 The $10M-$100M ARR Sprint: How Replit Became the Fastest-Growing “Vibe Coding” App (Or One Of The Fastest) A deep-dive into the AI development platform wars and why Replit’s 10x growth in 5.5 And allowing more experienced developer to ship far, far faster. 2023 : $2.4M

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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

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When a development team switches to an AI-powered coding assistant, they’re not just adding a new tool—they’re often reducing their dependency on multiple legacy SaaS platforms. Weak players get acquired or shut down. The SaaS industry is now experiencing what every other mature technology sector has gone through.

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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

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A smaller number of high-quality leads that convert at higher rates is vastly superior to a flood of poor-fit prospects. You assembled a talented team, built an amazing product, and established a growing SaaS business. Mix in the classic conflict between sales and marketing teams, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.