SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

On the last installment of Workshop Wednesday , where we bring you some of the best SaaStr speakers live with new content and to answer your questions live on Wednesdays— SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg, Executive in Residence at Balderton Capital share what really matters in SaaS for 2025. They want it fixed first.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The post SaaStr Annual 2025 is May 13-15 in SF Bay!! Tickets now are the cheapest they will ever be and are fully refundable outside a ~30 day window before Annual. As low as $549 (!) No complaints on pricing if you buy last minute! So grab tickets NOW to save the most. And bring your whole team!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2024

So much is going on in 2024, we needed a bit of time to plan APAC v2, but we will be back in February 2025 for the second SaaStr APAC! We’ll see 1,500+ of you in February 2025! And a great summary here: The post SaaStr APAC Will Be Back in February 2025!! appeared first on SaaStr.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

The post “Talk to You in 2025”: When There Isn’t Budget appeared first on SaaStr. This is what they tend to be really good at. Getting past all these objections. Especially — “Not Now”. note: an updated SaaStr Classic post).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So with that here are Your Top 10 New Years SaaS Resolutions for 2025: #1. This is your #1 lever to do better in 2025. #2. This is so much more important in 2025. You need the team sharp to retain your customers in 2025. The post Your SaaS New Year’s Resolutions for 2025 appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Top Marketing Strategies for 2025 Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta #4. Top SaaStr Podcasts & Videos of the Week: #1. “What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg” #2. 83% Percent of You Haven’t Gotten AI SDRs to Work … Yet #5.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After going virtual and hybrid during the 2021 era, and moving its HQ to Bozeman Montana when ex-CEO Frank Slootman moved there… and officially leaving the SF Bay (albeit keeping its office in San Mateo ) in 2021 … Snowflake is quadrupling down on the SF Bay Area in 2025.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 18, 2024

and >accelerating< – 80% Gross Margins – 500 $1m+ customers 20x ARR doesnt seem >that< high pic.twitter.com/5qW7jeReQc — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 17, 2024 So SaaS is back. And it will be cash-flow positive in 2025. It will be cash-flow positive in 2025. #4.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 7, 2024

If you are in the same space as these leaders … maybe sponsor SaaStr Annual 2025, May 13-15!! See everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! The average Super Gold sponsor received 470 qualified leads in 2024, up from 249 in 2023. These sponsors worked the hardest, perhaps.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2024

There have only been 3 SaaS IPOs since 2021, but ServiceTitan is the next one, and the pipeline looks strong for the back half of 2025 and into 2026, from Canva to Databricks to Stripe to Wiz to Snyk and on and on. ” and the post not only took off, it summarized a zeitgeist, a malaise, a feeling across much of B2B at the start of 2024.

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The Daily Egg

AUGUST 21, 2020

By 2025, we’re projected to produce 463 exabytes (4,630,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data every day. Everything you do online leaves a digital trail. Which is cool and all… but what does that mean for business owners, digital marketers, bloggers, and data engineers? It’s a massive opportunity.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And do your 2025 Team Retreat in SF Bay around 2025 SaaStr Annual on May 13-15! That excludes hotels and flights though, but it’s not that far from what it costs 37 Signals to bring their teams together for smaller events when you back out those costs. In fact, often not really cheaper than having an office. But IMHO, worth it.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

When Salesforce is already in its fiscal 2025. Now, if you scroll down, you’ll see the 2025 investor materials are all there. investor presentation. But way is the 2022 presentation highlighted at the top? There may be a reason eluding me. But I’m 90% sure it just hasn’t been touched.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Canva, Stripe, Databricks, ServiceTitan, Gusto, Wiz should all have epic IPOs in 2025 or maybe 2026. So the best of the best in SaaS and Cloud are still on fire. But one thing is clear: it’s taking longer to IPO: It used to take 10.4 years on average to IPO in SaaS. More on that data here. The last 3 SaaS IPOs took 11.3

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara’s CEO and Co-Founder” #3 What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg # 4. “How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHub’s CRO” # 2.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

If you are running the same playbook in 2025 to get a job that you ran in 2021, it probably won’t work. In general, public companies are hiring at a slower pace than they are growing. In 2021, it was the opposite. It’s different.

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The Moz Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Looking for guidance to create an SEO strategy in 2025? Discover the top SEO trends with predictions from 23 search experts.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2024

SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 11, 2024 So theres a quiet trend Ive observed for a while but didnt want to call a trend. Found out over the weekend another 2 CEOs Ive known for a long time that raised $50m+ recently just quit their start-ups I guess this is fine now — Jason ????SaaStr But I think it is.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 2, 2024 So we’ve talked a lot on SaaStr about how Customer Success has changed over the past 24 months. In many cases, it’s now part of the revenue team, and bringing in more revenue is Goal #1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Google Cloud itself is predicting the Cloud will triple by 2026 or so , and reach $760B in spend in 2025, up from $290B in 2020 (note, I’m extrapolating a year or so from this chart and prediction, which itself is from IDC data): While Google is focused in particular on Cloud infrastructure, it really doesn’t matter.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Gartner: SaaS Spend is Actually Accelerating, Will Hit ~$300 Billion in 2025 What’s my point? But for a reason. CIOs and others are looking for efficiency in AI, not more generic workflow tools. That’s it time for you to adjust, not wait for the market to. The spend is still there.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

See everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, in MAY this time, May 13-15!! The price for a booth is just a small part of the overall soft and hard costs. So if you are doing them, the data suggest lean is as much as you can. Upgrade, Go Big. But don’t do more than you can afford. The post Is a Bigger Booth at Events Really Worth It?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Sydney Sloan, CMO at G2 and SaaStr fan favorite, shares insights from G2’s annual buyer behavior report to help prep you for the 2025 buying cycles. T he good news is that G2’s data shows that more people are going to be buying software in 2025 than in 2024 , with only 6% saying they are going to buy less. The promise of AI.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

What Really Matters in SaaS in 2025 with Jason Lemkin and Dave Kellogg #3. 6 Brutal Truths About Fundraising Top Videos: #1. Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara’s CEO and Co-Founder # 2. Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth # 4.

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SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Better to put that energy into products that would move the needle in Cloud in 2019–2025 and beyond. Once Office 365, Azure, etc. took off, and Microsoft’s Cloud strategy became clear … a new task manager wasn’t important enough. It seemed possible at the time it might help their productivity application strategy. The big ones, though.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2024

" @dittycheria CEO @MongoDB pic.twitter.com/S0NGHGtc8t — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 26, 2024 Even 50% is better than most, Dev said. When I re-watched it the other day, this quote really stuck with me: You are lucky if 60% of your VPs work out. "Your He’s right. Now look you can do better.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 30, 2024

Larger quantities of our latest generation Trainium2 is coming in the second half of 2024 and early 2025.” “We have the broadest selection of NVIDIA compute instances around, but demand for our custom silicon, Trainium and Inferentia, is quite high given its favorable price performance benefits relative to available alternatives.

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The Moz Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discover 24 AI tools to streamline workflows, save time, and boost your productivity in 2025. Overwhelmed by debugging, tight deadlines, and clunky tools?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Now, maybe they both wait for 2025. And Both, Importantly, With Strong Brand Names (Even in Consumer, With Canva). If both trade at say 15x ARR, even in a 6x world, that would put both at $30B+ market caps. We’ll see. But both look strong enough to go in 2024. That will get folks excited again.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Salesforce, Nov 2024: We're hiring 1,000 new sales execs to sell AI!

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

E-commerce is now where we expected it to be in 2025 or so. It might be where we expected to be in 2022, or 2025, but we may have gotten there — and see more “traditional” growth going forward. And videoconference? Well Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. And yet … can this go on forever? It can’t.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Will 2025 Be The Year Of The “It’s Just Time” IPO? #5. LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday: What to Expect in SaaS in 2025 with Dave Kellogg & Jason Lemkin The post Top SaaStr Posts, Pods and Videos of the Week: Tomasz Tunguz + Dave Kellogg, CEO of Bill, Bessemer’s State of the AI Cloud, and More!!! Genesys Files to IPO.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But if you just go heads down, and keep it up: 2020: $10m 2021: $14m 2022: $20m 2023: $28m 2024: $38m 2025: $53m 2026: $75m 2027: $105m 2028: $148m 2029: $206m 2030: $290m. " Years you'll hear this: 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2… — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 19, 2020.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

A sign even if 2024 remains harder per HubSpot (and many others) … that 2025 could be, hopefully will be, the bounce back for B2B. B2C and B2B2C are usually ahead of B2B. The customers come and go faster. So maybe it’s a sign. Stay the course. The post HubSpot: “Yes, We Had a Great Quarter.

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Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2025 Rate Cut Expectations The Fed’s “Dot Plot” shows where each member expects rates to be each year. The Dot Plot released on Wednesday showed an expectation of 2 rate cuts in 2025. Prior to this meeting, the expectations were for 3-4 rate cuts in 2025. in 2025 (with the projection being 2.2%

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) November 11, 2024 Salesforce says it’s seeing such high demand for AgentForce … which replaces humans for agents … that it’s hiring an additional 1,000 folks in sales and product to sell it.

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