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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. Microsoft Azure’s at incredible scale and it still grew 40% last quarter.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. Salesforce was a very rudimentary SMB app for a brief period of time, but it was. Even compared to where Pipedrive was in 2013, it did less. There was a moment in time when I didn’t have that much to do 2013, 2014, and I was an angel investor, but really a mentor.

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GTM 139: AI Agents Are Changing Everything — Microsoft’s VP of AI Agents on the New Era of Work and Software | Ray Smith

Sales Hacker

cloud infrastructure and you know, many thousands, hundreds of thousands of startups, you know, built on top of Azure. I think about every business that I’ve seen, and I still engage with a lot of startups and SMB, and small, medium companies as well. They didn’t have to reinvent the wheel. Focused on the use cases.