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Where AI Really Matters in Vertical SaaS With CEOs of Owner, Alloy Automation, and DoNotPay

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A huge congrats to Team @owner for a record start to 2025!! Join @owner pic.twitter.com/zaiPTpMEbM — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 1, 2025 Sarah Du, CEO Alloy Automation Sarah Du is the CEO of Alloy Automation, a Series A company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. New restaurants up +31% in 1 month!

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One Thing is Clear: AI Makes a Lot of Business Software Look Awfully Expensive Today. Is Deflation Coming?

SaaStr

50 cents of compute for 500 dollars of value — Sam Altman (@sama) February 3, 2025 So just how much will AI remake classic B2B software? We are still learning. On the one hand, new AI-first entrants are rocketing to $10m ARR in a year. If not, hurry up. Driving up ACVs. But it could soon turn deflationary.

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Mastering Growth in the AI Era: How to Stand Out, Acquire Customers, and Raise VC Dollars with B Capital, Zetta, and Glasswing

SaaStr

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! What VCs Are Funding in AI Today The AI funding landscape has evolved rapidly in 2023-2024.

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Software-led payments: What’s on the horizon for platforms in 2025? | Episode 46

Payrix

In this episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis welcomes Matt Downs, President of Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss software-led payments predictions for 2025 and beyond. Navigating market dynamics in 2025 and beyond Matt emphasized the cyclical nature of the payments industry, likening it to a pendulum.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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The Problem with “Small But Mighty” AI Start-Ups

SaaStr

And a related deep dive on GTM in 2025 and Beyond here: Sam Blond + Jason Lemkin “GTM in 2025: How It’s Changed, How It’s Changing, and What Hasn’t Changed (Yet)” Even in spaces that didn’t used to be all that competitive. Most of us are having to step up much more just to keep up.

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You Could Win $500K – $5M in Funding. Announcing the SaaStr and Mayfield AI Demo Stage and Pitch Competition at SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

This year, we’re partnering with Mayfield AI to bring you the AI Demo Stage and Pitch Competition to SaaStr Annual 2025: May 13-15 in the SF Bay Area. We have a HUGE announcement that we can’t keep secret any longer. You could win $500K – $5M in funding from Mayfield AI Garage!! That’s right.

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