SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. The future of Enterprise is “Ambient AI.”

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2024

Apple is competing using the challenger sale : Apple is telling the market, to use AI, you should want private AI, you should want to control your own data because it’s valuable 1. Since 2020, Apple has marketed their products as the private alternative poking fun at how public we all are about the minutia of our lives.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The AI even references images in the post. The Ghost in the Machine : Invisible Ads in Generative Search In this episode, the AI injects a related concept that I don’t mention in the post : native ads. Interwoven with Initia : There’s a good dialogue between the AI.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2024

In a recent Office Hours, Baris Gultekin, Head of AI at Snowflake & a friend from Google, shared his insights into Snowflake’s approach to AI. It was a great conversation to understand how one of the leading data companies is pushing AI forward. There are four major pushes for Snowflake within AI.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Its all flowing into AI and Growth, but its back. Yes, its often AI fueled SaaS leaders. Why cant you be the new leader in legal, in accounting, in devops, in search, in support, in whatever? #3. AI has created 100s and even 1000s of new competitors in many categories. Venture Capital is Back. HyperGrowth is Back.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

But the story in this quarter’s reports is AI. Another example of AI favoring incumbents : Epic, a large health records company worth about $10-12b with about 30% market share in the US, has implemented some OpenAI features. Another data point I’m watching is Bing search share. 1 percentage point of growth on a $28.5b

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2025

And now it’s transitioning to its third phase, investing big in its more AI focused business offering, Dash, while managing its classic but mature file sharing business efficiently. Phase 3 of Dropbox: “We are evolving from traditional file sync and share to AI-powered universal search and content intelligence.”

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

From automated emails to visual search , AI allows companies to better support their customers at more touchpoints along their journey. AI chatbots use your existing information and resources, like FAQs or knowledge bases , to answer questions and offer help. Chatbots don’t just use AI to answer questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Being responsible for the design of AI services used by millions of people is a huge responsibility, and Arin is deeply aware of that. According to him, good design doesn’t need to sacrifice transparency, and imperceptible AI isn’t ethical AI. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2024

In the last few years, since the release of Attention is All You Need Paper , AI has boomed. OpenAI categorizes levels of AI similarly to self-driving cars. What if that little orange elbow is the beginning of reasoning in AI? The rapid pace of iteration has led to the release of model after model.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2024

Will AI sofware companies operate with better or worse profitability than a classic SaaS company? Initially, I thought worse since the expense of serving AI as a product is signficantly higher. AI SaaS may be much more profitable than the -10% average net income margins of the current crop of public businesses. Deflationary.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Google led to search-engine optimization, which startups like Expedia & Zillow grew to become public companies. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups? There are a few emerging possibilities : OpenAI plug-in architecture enables companies to build products integrated into a new search & discovery experience.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Google’s earnings call identified some major changes and unexpected outcomes, including the performance of AI Ads, the importance of hardware compared to algorithmic efficiency gains, and the groundswell of developer adoption for Gemini models. The new modalities for engaging with computers will be the main theme of AI in 2025.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. Discord launched Clyde Hubspot launched Chatbot Snapchat launched MyAI Spotify was able to offer better recommendation engines — AI DJ.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

What does advertising look like in the world of AI? In a future where generative AI dominates search, the ten blue links & five sponsored ads disappear. These are both passed to the AI model into the context window. Today, advertisers create ads for search & pay to associate them with keywords.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Not necessarily from a content creation standpoint but more so how it is going to kill search. But here is the thing, when you currently perform a search on Bing, Google, or even ask ChatGPT a question neither of them is always correct, which I will get to in a bit. Or that people won’t need to search anymore. Roughly 25.6%

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. You can filter your search by industry, whether you’re SMB, mid-market, or Enterprise, etc. AI is just a better interface than forms-based searching.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI. Over the next year or so, we will all ask each other, what could AI do for me?

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Sparktoro

AUGUST 4, 2024

The good folks at Sonata Insights recently analyzed Datos‘ clickstream panel to uncover consumer search behavior insights in the “age of AI” If you’re in the digital marketing world, it’s probably worth your time to download and read.

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The Moz Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this video, we analyze 46,000 keywords to reveal where AI Overviews are actually appearing in search results, which industries are most affected, and what this means for your SEO strategy.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

So I started a list : what are the ways I use AI that are new in the last year? Or correct the grammar in a sentence or execute a quick search on a topic or summarize an email or format a list. AI is driving a broader behavior change : summarize, then determine whether to invest the effort to read.

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The Moz Blog

JULY 5, 2024

In this Whiteboard Friday, Garrett discusses AI Overviews and how to optimize your SEO strategy for this new super-charged AI-powered search ranking snippet.

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Blulogix

MARCH 27, 2025

By BluLogix Team How AI is Transforming Billing Billing has long been a complex and manual process, prone to errors, inefficiencies, and revenue leakage. AI is addressing these inefficiencies, transforming billing into a data-driven, automated, and predictive process.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? Search Does the application include search?

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

So 40% of our content at SaaStr Europa was on AI this year, and probably 33% of SaaStr Annual last year. But it’s time for a full-fledged SaaStr AI Summit this year inside of SaaStr Annual. You can join us just for AI Summit or all of Annual. Just a few of the sessions coming: #1. ” #2. ” #2. ” #4.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Accel Partner Philipe Botteri and Synthesia’s co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli deep dive into the lessons learned about building an Enterprise-focused Generative AI company and scaling it. They began with AI dubbing, dubbing real video into different languages and changing the lip synchronization and voice-over.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

So is AI taking over everything? Across the SaaStr Fund portfolio, I’ve seen multiple portfolio companies lost $1m customers to new, in-house AI initiatives. But I’ve also seen others grow even faster as AI rebooted and enhanced their products. AI is part of it, platforms are part of it. I mean … maybe.

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Blulogix

MARCH 24, 2025

By BluLogix Team AI Billing Innovations, Usage-Based Pricing, Credits, and Prepaid Models AI Billing Needs a New Approach Unlike traditional SaaS, AI products often require real-time metering and consumption-based pricing. Example: Many AI platforms offer a free tier with limited credits, encouraging upgrades when usage grows.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2024

They dive into the nuances of topics like: Evolving dynamics of remote work The most effective marketing channels of 2024 Owned assets vs. “walled gardens” The practical realities vs. the hype around AI As everyone here at SaaStr knows, Jason sold his first company, Echosign, for $400M. At Zapier, they’ve been good at search.

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Sparktoro

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Today, Google’s search results still look (mostly) like lists of snippets and links, e.g. But, plenty of search marketers and industry observers suspect we’re in the closing days of this format, and the future holds something closer to how AI-tools like ChatGPT and Bard answer user-inputted prompts, e.g. If that’s the case, what can/should (..)

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So at SaaStr Annual, Dave Kellogg did a great deep dive on “5 Things Every B2B CEO Needs to Know about Marketing” In the Age of AI it’s even more true today, so I wanted to update our SaaStr take-aways from the deep dive. These “five-five” CMOs barely exist. Better to hire for your specific needs and stage.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 4, 2023

Have you ever tried a Google search that just wasn’t giving you the answers you were seeking? Content creators need all the help they can get – and they can find it in AI. No longer a far-fetched idea out of a 90s movie, AI has the potential to support content creators at every stage of the content creation process.

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The Daily Egg

MARCH 17, 2025

The first page of Googles search results is overcrowded AI Overviews, SERP features, and paid ads all competing for attention before organic results even. The post How to Increase Organic CTR and Why Even Bother appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. Over the next 3 to 5 years, we expect some existing marketplaces will pivot, some will go out of business, and some will be supercharged with the help of AI. Custom supply creation Imagine a marketplace where a searched-for product (e.g.,

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. More on what’s behind the spike in AI companionship below.)

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FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI search has become an invaluable tool for finding information quickly and efficiently. At FastSpring, we aim to continually enhance our AI search capabilities, ensuring you receive accurate and relevant answers. ” For “Why is my invoice not showing up?,”

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IT World

JUNE 6, 2023

Palo Alto-based startup Glean, founded in 2019 by former Google, Microsoft and Meta employees, has released a new generative-AI based assistant, dubbed Glean Chat, designed to boost productivity and efficiency across enterprises via a conversational search interface.

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