SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Pursuing Two Different Segments: The Tale of Startups vs. When it comes to marketing Workspace, Alison shared they’re double down on showing off the value off of Duet AI, Google Workspace’s AI assistant. Their focus on Marketing with Duet AI with Workspace has been a way to open up business in new accounts.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So to serve both segments at the simultaneously, ZoomInfo has been rolling out a Product-led sales motion, that gives the ability for an SMB customer to sign up directly on their website for a free trial and grow into a paid customer, without ever having to talk to an sales rep or go through a demo process. So, what’s new at ZoomInfo?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SaaS sales model seems so well-established, as hundreds of founders build their businesses and raise funding. Mark Roberge, Founder of Stage 2 Capital and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, shares insights from his years of experience into common SaaS sales missteps and how you can avoid them.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2024

Overall Cloud spending has bounced back off lows for sure: AWS at a $105B run rate growing 19% Quarterly YoY growth trends below. VCs are minting AI unicorns at a strong clip, and investing in AI at as fast a clip as they can. VCs are minting AI unicorns at a strong clip, and investing in AI at as fast a clip as they can.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Challenges and Pitfalls of a Partner Ecosystem Drata attributes much of its success to its partner ecosystem, which is an interesting case study for most, so how do they break up marketing, sales, and resource allocation vs. a more direct-sales modeled business? AWS can’t support 20 partners equally.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). It’s worth pointing out that Azure is a bit above the long term trendline, while AWS is still below (but accelerating up). The graph below shows the median net retention going back to 2020.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

This is why the consumption players (Snowflake, Mongo, Confluent, Azure, AWS, etc) so more variability in the macro slowdown. This brings me to AI (everything leads to AI these days…). When it comes to AI there is now another BIG culprit in misused ARR which I’m calling ERR (we use this term internally).

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

1: How Sales and Marketing Have Shifted Since 2020 Expectations and the types of people working in SaaS have shifted over the past few years, and much more in sales, marketing, and customer success. . #1: At scale, this is a jigsaw puzzle,” he said. I can leave my horrible sales job making $240k OTE and be a solopreneur.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. Basic marketing and selling at a global scale is becoming easy too. AI is potentially the next elephant waiting to enter the room.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. It requires shifts in go-to-market strategy, sales compensation, financial planning, billing, and much more. Ready to scale to $100+ million ARR?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Instead, we’re entering an exciting new moment in marketing where AI tools not only have the ability to free up humans to do the best work of their careers, they are helping companies reach their customers in a highly personal and engaging way. Scaling a personalized buyer experience with automation. billion to $3 billion.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

How do you ensure your AI product not only survives but thrives in this competitive market? In an upcoming talk , she’ll take a deep dive into the specifics of launching AI-first products. In an upcoming talk , she’ll take a deep dive into the specifics of launching AI-first products. Defining the value proposition.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Keep the promise of sales enablement and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon on AWS : “…customers are continuing to shift their focus towards driving innovation and bringing new workloads to the cloud. So what you're seeing is much more of that continuous cycles by customers, both when it comes to AI or whether it comes to the traditional workloads.” Follow along to stay up to date!

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 23, 2024

Lessons learned from scaling innovative products and go-to-market motions at AWS. 32:49 – Challenges faced and insights gained during Linda’s time at AWS. Why a modern go-to-market approach requires moving beyond legacy CRM systems. How Common Room unifies siloed data to enable a 360-degree view of the customer.

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Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Subscribe now Cloud Giants Report Q3 ‘23 Not a great signal for software this week from the Cloud Giants (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)…After Q2 (3 months ago), the tone from the Cloud Giants around optimizations was largely: optimizations have started to ease, and net new workloads have picked up. Staggering scale already.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cloud Giants Report Q2 We also got the Q2 quarters from AWS / Azure / GCP this week! Our expectation, obviously again, is that we are going to significantly increase our investments in AI infrastructure next year, and we'll give further guidance as appropriate.” Booking called out weakness in Europe. Top 5 Median: 14.4x

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

The three worlds are: B2B2C B2B2B AI And then there are folks in impacted categories like ZoomInfo , where things haven’t really improved. And there’s AI. Jason tweeted WTF because many things are happening in AI, like 200x ARR rounds. A lot of the funding rounds for AI feel like 2021 again, but only for this subset of people.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. Ali: Enterprises move slow.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If we look at that and step back, you can think of this, again, from the leading perspective of the public’s first, which is this evolution over time. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%. They had to reinvent themselves.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What I mean by MQLs is Marketing Qualified Leads. One thing we’ve learned in helping our founders and operators scale their businesses is that cash is one of their most precious resources. Can also be responsible for PQLs, if there is a sales motion to upsell self-serve. Driving pipeline for sales (SLG). Efficiency.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. Scaling support for early-stage startups. From the sales organization and share of wallet, they have 100% as their goal. Short on time?

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Clouded Judgement

APRIL 11, 2024

Who are the real AI winners. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. As a public company with significant scale, it’s hard to grow quickly if you have to rely solely on new customers for that growth.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While many gravitate towards major industry events for announcements, Joseph has a hot take (and we love a spicy take): do not announce a major new feature at a major industry conference (such as RSA Conference or AWS re:Invent). Start-ups to watch: This week, Demostack released its AI Data Generator to the public.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If you want features in your lakehouse (on top of open source Iceberg) for ingestion, CDC, streaming (file loading, Kafka connect, etc), schema evolution, compaction, optimization, time travel, snapshots, auto-scaling, maintenance (no more writing spark jobs to delete snapshots!), However, the two are intertwined together. Let's dive in.

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User Pilot

MARCH 5, 2025

Scalability and security Built to scale with your business, with enterprise-grade security measures to protect your data. Intercom Intercom is an AI-powered customer service tool that equips teams to engage customers through omnichannel support and activity-driven automation. Customer support with Intercom. per resolution.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. David Haber: Marco, thank you so much for joining.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Userpilot is a leading B2B product growth tool that excels at in-app engagement , product analytics, customer feedback collection, customer support, and integrations. It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Frequent issues can lead to significant disruptions in service.

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Scytale

JUNE 24, 2024

Cloudflare Cloudflare is the leading connectivity cloud company, empowering organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds.

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Full Session

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Conversion funnel analysis: Detect patterns that lead to user drop-offs and test new ideas to optimize conversion rates. Drive Revenue Growth With FullSession Learn how to visualize and improve each step in your sales or marketing funnel. Integrations PostHog works well with Kafka, Slack, AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub, Tableau, and Looker.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. What were the business lines that you were in?

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

The smart revolution has come – AI is significantly changing the way we live our daily lives. How has AI changed SaaS businesses? What are the possible challenges of implementing AI in SaaS? This leads us to explore new trends that artificial intelligence has brought to the table. What does the future hold for SaaS?

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 8, 2019

More and more companies, especially at the seed stage , are building freemium and free trial offerings to acquire prospective users. This can lead to a lack of focus and probably a decrease in sales effectiveness over time. Lead scoring” is not the answer to your problems. Enter: Product Qualified Leads (PQLs).

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While more and more CS leaders are catching onto the value of having Customer Success Operations, they still face challenges in both convincing the C-suite of its need and finding qualified people to lead the function. I had an intern that was helping me, so she quickly learned the platform, and then was able to scale it across all the CSMs.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Drata is a top-ranking compliance automation platform, helping companies get started on their security compliance, scale GRC, and enhance their security and compliance program. And that last point leads us to Scytale’s main strength: our ability to connect with your business, one-on-one, on your terms. What is Vanta?

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