SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) Check that out here. What’s your most recent disclosed investment?

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. To win, you have to hire hackers and tinkerers who love working on the bleeding edge of technology. The transition from 2021 to 2023 was brutal.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Benjamin added, “I think a lot of people think about this new AI technology as something that’s gonna just come in and like work from day one. ” A Round of Predictions about AI for 2023 Sandhya closed the session by asking, “What is something wild and something realistic you hope will be true in 2030?”

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 21, 2022

G2’s Winter 2023 Reports are here and we are thrilled to announce that Frontegg has been awarded a total of 42 badges including Leader rankings in the CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) category for Best Support, Easiest To Do Business With, and Highest User Adoption amongst many others.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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Stax

AUGUST 19, 2024

Stay Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer. Neiconi brings more than 15 years of experience in risk and fraud management leadership to his new role, with a deep background in developing fraud risk solutions, risk data collection and analysis, and compliance.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Stax’s mission and commitment to unlock partner and customer success through its innovative technology really resonates with me,” said Krahl. “I Krahl’s appointment cements Stax’s commitment to investing in its team and bringing on new team members with deep industry knowledge and is the latest executive hire at Stax.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. If B2C rebounded back in 2023, that means 2025 might be a little easier for a lot of folks in classic B2B. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. They said they’ll only grow 17% next year. What happened?

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Frontegg

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

2023 has commenced with a plethora of business challenges, but innovation is still going to be on the minds of engineering teams worldwide. Frontegg will be a sponsor of DeveloperWeek 2023, SF Bay Area. LeadDev New York March 14-15, New York Tickets: Basic LeadDev Pass – $1499 LeadDev is almost here.

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Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

How often do you reflect on the ways technology changes your life as a marketer? I mean the sly, step-by-way manner in which new tech slides neatly into your existing stack and subtly reframes the game on you. Yosem Reichert-Sweet, CTO, Unbounce. I’m not talking full-on paradigm shifts here. (“We

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 21, 2021

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. By 2023, Statista projects that figure will increase to over 347 billion emails. And as you probably know, the constant onslaught of new data protection laws make it really difficult to secure your SaaS apps and stay compliant.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Everything changed in 2023 as automation became the focus, and then again in 2024 as full AI agents were rolled out across its customer base. The key takeaway is that full automation is the new expectation, and it takes time and resources to build, but the cost will go down with advancements in technology and infrastructure.

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User Pilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). A friend of mine is working in finance as a compliance manager, and every New Year’s party the guys are literally harassing women.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 26, 2023

Announced in a blog post on January 31st, OpenAI quietly pulled the plug a few days ago, not with a new announcement but rather by adding a note on the top of that January post: As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. I refined the query a bit and finally got found a few some 2023 mentions of Moxie technical advising as well. A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. Once you have that, you can begin to acquire some new users.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 30, 2023

and Upgrade To The New Tailwind-CSS-With-Hugo Approach. 10 more minutes and the new Tailwind approach was in place. 10 more minutes and the new Tailwind approach was in place. May 31, 2023 # Today was Upgrade To The Latest Hugo (0.112.5) with the old Tailwind approach. with the old Tailwind approach.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 28, 2023

To enable a) and b), I expanded my blog, Crafty’s Illustrated, to support four new microblogging content types (like this one!). May 29, 2023 # My ChatGPT intern helped with: Hugo templating, Tailwind CSS, shell scripts, how to resolve a Git merge issue, and more.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 7, 2023

We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. Not earth-shattering, not an all-new fundamental sorting algorithm, but achieving a 1% to 5% improvement on code that runs a trillion times a day is meaningful. June 7, 2023 # Already merged with LLVM so it will make its way into real code.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 5, 2023

Required an entire new OS flavor to make this work. Required an entire new chip family (in addition to an M2) to make this work–12ms latency sensor to display. June 5, 2023 # Reminds me of Apple Watch, but probably 20X longer list. On-secure-enclave OpticID. So so so many cameras and sensors. 5,000 patents. 5,000 patents.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 5, 2023

New Mac Pro: I was very amused when, as Apple talked about this beast having 7 PCIe slots and mentioned what you’d use them for, they skipped one little item … GPUs. June 5, 2023 # Sloppy Apple Keynote Observations Part 1: Everything Except Keynote video: Apple blew out the audio levels on interstitial music. There you go.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

Yesterday I was watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 2023 edition, when I realized, “wait a minute, I’ve blogged about Le Mans before …” Much to my POSSE horror, I realized that I had taken down my 2015-era blog without preserving its content, and that some of the content actually appeared to be worth preserving.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2023

I was doing a lot of changes all at once, including upgrading Hugo versions and implementing the New Better Version of Tailwind CSS support in Hugo. ” Hugo does some wonderful image processing magic, and that logic is normally only triggered incrementally when a new image asset is added.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

The post The Final Speaker List for 2023 SaaStr Europa in London 6-7 June is LIVE!! And we’ll have a ton more Braindates and Workshops still to come last minute to sign-up for! See you there! Take a look at the full agenda here and grab 20% off the final tickets with the link above! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) O post Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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