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The Top 10 SaaStr 2025 Sessions So Far! OpenAI Head of GTM, HubSpot CEO, Canva CCO, DropBox and Snowflake CEOs!

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Ok about 2,000 of you have already picked your 2025 SaaStr Annual + AI Summit sessions so far and here are the top sessions … for now: 1. Kick-off to SaaStr Annual 2025 with SaaStrs Founder & CEO 4. AI and the Bottom Line: Canvas CCO on Freemium to Retention 15.

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The Series A Landscape in 2025: Insights from Chemistry VC’s Ethan Kurzweil

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At SaaStr Workshop Wednesday live , Ethan Kurzwiel, previously partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and now founding partner at Chemistry VC, took us through a deep dive of exactly where Series A funding is right now in 2025. And sign up for the next FREE Workshop Wednesday here.

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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

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" [link] — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 11, 2025 So a newer issue that is discussed a lot at start-up board meetings and investor meetings is AI Engineer comp. In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. The AI Team often makes a lot more.

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The Tough Side of Being Venture Backed: ActOn Sells for $53m After 17 Years … And Raising ~$53m+

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Marketing automation vendor Act-On acquired for $53 million [link] — Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 25, 2025 So a lot of folks somehow think venture capital is bad, that it throws founders under the bus. I used to sort of think that way. Simple: they sold for less than they raised. Its that simple.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

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So we’ll have ~20 of the latest AI start-ups from YCombinator at a special YC Demo Pod area at 2025 SaaStr Annual! Come meet them (and also watch 100+ present live at our first AI Demo Stage ) at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!! My Take : Classic infrastructure play with sticky retention characteristics.

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What’s Really Working in Embedded Finance: Key Learnings from Adyen’s $100B+ Experience

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The platforms that move first are seeing 70%+ revenue uplifts and dramatically improved retention. But the window for being early won’t last forever.

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Clouded Judgement 12.20.24 - The Fed Bomb

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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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