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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? If you’re going to do AI, you should do so thoughtfully.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

AI isn’t perfect but its productivity gains are undeniable. 1 Fueled by AI. Interviewers also face a new challenge: developing golden standards to evaluate AI fluency. Will they feed legal briefs back into AI systems for cross-examination? Safe convergence doubtful. What Shackleton might have written in 2025.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The AI Demo isn’t easy. Many of the major AI companies have demoed their AI systems, first starting with pre-recorded, & now pushing into live demos. Multiply Murphy’s Law by a non-deterministic system & it’s not unreasonable to expect AI demos to nearly always hiccup. They are deterministic.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Ask the founders this question when you interview them: How supportive has X person been as an investor? For example, Jason’s gotten hundreds of emails from founders creating an AI SDR app. This will help you decide more clearly if they’re the right investor for you team up with for potentially the next decade. #2

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2024

Hiring and Interviewing Tips: Jason emphasizes the importance of interviewing at least 30 candidates for a role and consulting with an expert in the field to interview the final candidate. AI in SaaS: Jason is bullish on the tactical benefits of AI in improving workflows within B2B SaaS.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. We’re now looking at a massive Open Source category, Commercial Open Source (COSS), that’s impossible to ignore.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. They build their own chips and work with NVIDIA.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Klue , which operates an AI-based competitive analysis platform, announced a $15 million Series A investment this week. The engagement may last a few months and involve extensive interviews and online research (yes, lots of Googling!) . This is where the AI/ML comes it as the data is put into manageable blocks. Tom Taulli.

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 19, 2023

There’s been much ado about AI lately, especially since ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022. Since then, we’ve seen an influx of thoughts and tools around the topic and the use of AI. Spending time with the different tools powered by AI has allowed us to define our boundaries better.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools for media let you create content at scale in a previously impossible way and you don’t even need design experience to create something impressive. AI isn’t new. But, these sectors have only scratched the surface of AI capabilities. The KinetiX tech AI tool is free for personal use.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

As a startup, most people who come to an interview appear happy. You interview 30 people. If it’s a role you’ve never hired, find someone great at it and have them do your final interview. You may not be the type of AI someone is looking for. How Do You Sift Out the Bitter and Broken Individuals When Hiring?

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

Enough With the AI Job Applications Sure, use ChatGPT to improve your grammar. Don’t Tell Them The 1 or 2 Slots You Are Free Instead, just tell them you’ll make almost anytime work for the interview. But maybe at the very end of the first interview. So how do you get those jobs? Respond in minutes if possible. Ask about comp.

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Buffer Resources

MARCH 22, 2023

A slate of writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) have recently made headlines as a new and more effective way to produce content. Most tech companies have even been implementing AI into their own tools as well, like we did earlier this year when we launched our AI assistant.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare. Enterprise healthcare tasks are highly complex and unforgiving to errors.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Nailing the interview process: Here’s one way to nail the interview process once the interview is landed: 1. Have the 1st interview. Interview them just as much as they interview you. Try to find a mutual connection who knows that initial interviewer and get someone to ping them with a note of support.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Since then, we’ve seen AI used for all sorts of social media tasks. The problem is most AI tools aren’t built for social media. We’ve spent almost a year working hard on Buffer’s AI Assistant to redesign it for social. Buffer’s AI Assistant is not just smart. This is a huge time-saver.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

They aren’t perfect, but given how many CIOs they interview — over 2,200 for this survey — they’re one of my favorite sources for what’s happening in 2023. 32% are increasing investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and 24% in hyperautomation”, per Gartner. Be honest. Or is it you?

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 29, 2023

Welcome back to Creators Unlocked , a series where we interview creators about their best practices. Today, we’ve got Stew Fortier, a more unconventional creator, as his day job is CEO of Type.ai , an AI content writing tool. The rapid advancement of AI has spurred debates among creators of all types.

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IT World

MAY 2, 2023

IBM plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to replace 7,800 jobs over the next five years, CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview, sparking fears of widespread job losses across industries. Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validate the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2024

Jason recently interviewed a SaaStr superfan, and about 40 minutes in, the person said they didn’t want to do some of the work required for the job. Jason recently interviewed a SaaStr superfan, and about 40 minutes in, the person said they didn’t want to do some of the work required for the job. I’m out of here.”

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IT World

APRIL 21, 2023

There's no doubt generative AI models such as ChatGTP, BingChat, or GoogleBard can deliver massive efficiency benefits — but they bring with them major cybersecurity and privacy concerns along with accuracy worries. It's already known that these programs — especially ChatGTP itself — make up facts and repeatedly lie.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Jason has sat in on interviews with 50-100 VPs of Sales, and many of them don’t even know what the product was in their 4th or 5th interview. Software is better, and AI makes it more so. If you’re an asphalt company, you might not need AI to manage your projects. AI is where all the budget is right now.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2024

” The Intersection of AI and Security It’s going to get a bit harder for CEOs and CTOs to maintain security and compliance going into 2024. “You’re seeing data breaches happen all the time,” Shrav said. Shrav sees security and AI as the two biggest faces in software for the next decade.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 14, 2024

  But thanks to the ever-growing list of AI video tools, you don’t have to.  These days, you can use AI to write scripts, edit videos, generate clips, and even talk to the camera for you.     ⚡ Looking for more AI help? The best part? You can use most of these for free.  per month.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Feeling that AI FOMO? Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. A good way to learn more about your customer personas and segments is through interviews, surveys, and sales team data. Interviews.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI is a big talking point, making waves in many different industries. One of the best ways of keeping up to date with the rapidly growing subject is by listening to AI podcasts. Hosted by an ensemble of AI-generated voices, the show delves deeply into a new topic each week, offering listeners an insightful and innovative experience.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

Staying Ahead of AI’s Influence on Business: “Work Is About to Change” As TestDome’s business continues to grow, another market change they’re growing with is the influence of AI on the remote testing industry. TestDome’s primary service has been pre-employment screening testing that helps hirers find the best candidates for a job.

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User Pilot

APRIL 15, 2024

In this article, we look at how you can use AI to gain in-depth customer insights and how to leverage them to improve the product. We also share a few tools that can help you harness the power of AI to offer a better customer experience. AI technologies power automation which increases team efficiency and productivity.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wes Bush , Founder and CEO of ProductLed and bestselling author of Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself, dives into this topic in an interview with Userpilot. Userpilot AI writing assistant. This is just a quick sneak peek into what he discusses.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. Determine the skills you want and how you’ll discover them in an interview. People used their senses to understand the health of the operation, walking the floor and feeling a machine to test its temperature. This isn’t new.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Lizzie Mintus Founder and CEO of Here’s Waldo Recruiting and host of The Heres Waldo Podcast about her thoughts on: The most effective recruiting strategies for SMBs. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Learn more and listen here.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2021

And so naturally, he’s got some strong opinions about automation, AI, and how they can help you create better experiences for both potential and existing customers. Adjust expectations around AI. That’s a good thing – too much AI can be, well, creepy.) Are automation and AI b t? Put in the work with your customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

This episode features interviews with payor and provider leaders about what they’re seeing and how they’re thinking about AI. Julie and Jay also authored an in-depth guide to commercializing AI in healthcare based on these interviews, available here.

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