SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Thread AI’s founder and Palantir alum Maya Gonimah has cracked the code on enterprise AI implementation through their strategic partnership with Google Cloud. Here’s the AI playbook that’s actually working in production today. Trying to create entirely new AI-centric workflows.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

AI is driving up churn all across the board. Today churn is often simply because looking at how AI changes a category put the customer / renewal into play. Today churn is often simply because looking at how AI changes a category put the customer / renewal into play. Sometimes, there is AI innovation budget fueling change.

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SaaStr

MARCH 9, 2025

Navigating the AI Transformation Journey Calendly is taking a comprehensive approach to AI implementation across its entire customer experience – not just within the product itself. ” Bios: Steven Shu, Chief Product Officer at Calendly Steven brings over 8 years of AI expertise to Calendly. .”

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

IBM’s $7B Bet on Vertical AI and What It Means for SaaS Founders. What’s emerging is a new paradigm: Vertical AI, where foundation models are specialized for specific industries and use cases. The WatsonX Platform Deep Dive What’s Actually Different Here WatsonX isn’t just another AI platform.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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TechEmpower SaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. With Generative AI and LLMs, new avenues for improving operational efficiency and user satisfaction are emerging every day. Strive for a balanced outcome.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2025

The learning: When you solve a genuinely hard problem, you get three moats for free: Technical advantage through innovation Legal protection through patents Thought leadership in the space 2. Solve Hard Technical Problems Create multiple moats Patent protection Technical innovation Market leadership 2.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

And you can see it in AI Mania. But my view has been that while AI spend is a way of innovation like we haven’t seen since mobile exploded, at the same time, there is only so much budget in the end. How Long Will the AI Bubble Last? Where 100x, 200x, even 300x ARR deals are the norm for the hottest deals.

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TechEmpower SaaS

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. Share an anecdote that showcases your innovative teaching methods. TechEmpower can help In the era of LLMs and Generative AI, empty textboxes are a product mistake. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This year, it’s all about AI, which is why Sameer Dholakia, Partner at Bessemer, calls it the Cloud AI Era. Four portfolio companies join Sameer to talk about three trends of the Cloud AI Era. With AI, everything is different, so change management is an important part of this revolution. You can access the report here.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Subscribe now The Year of “Enterprise AI” One of the biggest challenges facing AI systems in enterprises today is the “last mile” problem: how do you make AI both reliable and accurate for specific enterprise use cases? However the pace of innovation in large language models is extraordinary.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2025

One of the hottest topics in AI for B2B is around outcome-based pricing. Now one thing is clear: in certain categories, all the leading vendors are pushing toward outcome-based pricing for AI offerings. And with AI costs falling rapidly, will outcome-based pricing really stick in a lot of categories? What do I mean? I dont know.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Admittedly, this second-order effect is less prevalent at the leading edge of AI. If a supermajority of acquirers in purchasing potential are sidelined, the urgency to innovate is lessened. That’s why a vibrant M&A market is essential to innovation. The other major technology companies are just as hamstrung.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

It’s 50% about the intersection of AI + B2B, 50% about GTM in 2025+, and … 50% about helping you meet the best of the best! With a New, AI Demo Stage from 100+ Top AI Start-Ups! AI is transforming SaaS, and were dedicating two massive stages to the SaaStr.AI The SaaStr.AI Summit Is Back and Bigger.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. What are these moats? More users means a better product.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Today, the battle is for AI gravity. AI requires orders of magnitude more compute than other workloads, so there’s much more money & profit to be made serving customers running them. Facebook and Google both announced very similar strategies of overinvesting in AI data centers. History will rhyme with AI.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Procore has developed several innovative approaches to achieve this: Construction Boot Camp: Every new employee, regardless of role, goes through a two-week immersion in construction. AI Integration : Vertical-specific AI solutions are becoming a key differentiator, requiring deep industry knowledge to implement effectively.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our full AI Summit will be back and we’re adding a full AI Demo Stage you can apply to present at (more details soon!) There are many more speakers, workshops and braindates we’ll announce soon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2025

SaaStr Who Do You Want to Meet Brand new for 2025, were launching the SaaStr Who Do You Want to Meet AI-powered networking program. We have created this all new AI-powered networking program group for revenue leaders attending SaaStr Annual to connect and meet with fellow executives. Need more help? Screenshot

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Earlier this month, Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov sat down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin at SaaStr Europa 2024 to talk about all things AI and the lessons learned while scaling to billions. Back in 2015, Google AI beat the world chess champion easily. AI was starting to diagnose diseases better than doctors.

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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. AI has created 100s and even 1000s of new competitors in many categories. AI has created 100s and even 1000s of new competitors in many categories. AI Has Unlocked More B2B Budget Per Morgan Stanley, 50% of the budget for AI is new.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Since July , have you noticed how much better your AI model has become? Researchers have driven significantly more performance with innovations in algorithms. Measuring them is hard to do. All we can do is quantify the vibe : is this one better than that one? The one with the higher Elo score. 10b - 100b parameters Large 29.6%

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. The Pace of AI is Increasing Dramatically Something ground-shifting has been happening over the last five years — the pace of innovation.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Building off the popularity of our AI Day at last September’s SaaStr Annual , we’re bringing it back online this March on Wednesday, March 27th for a completely live, digital event that will bring the global SaaStr community together with the brightest innovators in Artificial Intelligence for a day of digital content.

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2024

As the kickoff to our first fully digital SaaStr AI Day, Jennifer Tejada , the CEO of PagerDuty, chatted with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, about navigating the shift to Generative AI and what Artificial Intelligence in SaaS might look like in the next 6 months, as well as years to come. How to Buck Up and Go Long in SaaS?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 27, 2024

AI adoption is slower than expected in many spaces. Most leaders wants to inject AI into their business to develop a competitive advantage. The pace of innovation, the early understanding of AI internals, & the non-determinism compound to create doubt. But no such standard exists for AI - yet.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

SaaStr is committed to having the most inclusive community in Cloud, SaaS and AI. We believe that true innovation depends on hearing from, meeting with, and listening to people with a variety of perspectives and diverse backgrounds. Be actively employed at a post-revenue B2B / AI / SaaS operating company.

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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? AI is characterized by waves of innovation & sudden change, a tecnological punctuated equilibrium.

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