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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures

SaaStr

Should we care about AI infrastructure when building SaaS applications? Weinstein, and Managing Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, Aaref Hilaly, take the stage at SaaStr Annual to answer this question, plus what to expect with the future of AI. The Head of the Global VC Practice at Oracle, J.D. Think of Notion.

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The Series A Crunch or the Seedpocalypse of 2024

Tom Tunguz

The Seeds of the 2010 era are the pre-Seeds of today, making the comparison impure. AI startups, the darlings of the current era, are a notable exception. Many new seed funds started & the rate of company formation surged during the early 2020s driven by an ebullient capital markets. to 1, to 5 to 1.

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Building a Global SaaS Empire: 5 Bets That Paid Off with Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham

SaaStr

Big Bet #1: Cast Your Net Wide — Bet On Inbound While Going Global Freshworks was founded in October 2010 in Chennai, India. Big Bet #2: Find Tomorrow’s Great Anglers — Hire Talent With A Learning Mindset In 2010 and 2011, San Francisco was the place for SaaS talent. AI was the biggest threat.

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The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS: Where It’s All Going with Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi (Podcast #505 and Video)

SaaStr

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. In 2010, COSS was valued at $10B, and 90% of that value was attributed to a single company: Red Hat.

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The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes -.com,co,gg - Which is Best for Your Business?

Tom Tunguz

ai means a startup is all about the future.AI Appearing suddenly in 2010, it promptly disappeared - confoundingly abruptly and surprisingly unexpectedly - in 2015 - albeit, justly in my view. Down more than 75% in share over the last 20 years, the.net harkens a bygone era of the internet, when hipsters called it the ‘Net.

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Doubling Down: Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital

SaaStr

Between the initial COVID economic shutdown to the tech V-shape recovery to the rise and fall of the public and private valuation landscape with inflation and interest rates to now the advent of a massive technology breakthrough with AI, these are crazy, fast-moving, and exciting times. what would you do with a clean start?

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Who is Eran Zinman | Co-CEO of SaaS Leader Monday.com

SaaStr

monday.com’s pushing hard into AI, enterprise, and vertical-specific solutions. Key Metrics Worth Noting: 85% of enterprise expansion comes from existing customers Users spend average 2.5 Becoming the default operating system for work, period.

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