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Just Announced: SaaStr Annual 2025 Headline Speakers: The CEOs and CXOs of Snowflake, HubSpot, Dropbox, ServiceTitan, Canva, Descript, and 100s More!!

SaaStr

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. It’s going to be one of our most epic line-ups ever!

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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

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. Apple’s massive distribution will affect consumer & enterprise preferences. It’s already happening.

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The Challenge of the AI Demo

Tom Tunguz

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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What Has Your GPU Done For You Today?

Tom Tunguz

A year ago, enterprises balked at the prospect of deploying AI. By using AI, would my company lose its data as employees passed sensitive queries to large language models? AI is expensive. What revenue has AI increased? What cost has AI reduced? How much better is AI than existing software?

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

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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The First Wave of AI and GTM Speakers is Here for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!

SaaStr

So this year’s SaaStr Annual May 13-15 in SF Bay is going to be bigger, better and even more AI than last year. SaaStr AI is the theme (not that original I know but), and roughly half our content will be on the intersection of B2B and AI, and half on GTM in today’s world.

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Incredbile New Speakers for SaaStr Annual and SaaStr.ai Summit 2025! CEOs Calendly and Bolt; CRO ServiceTitan; CBO Perplexity and Much More!

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CCO Canva CCO Stripe CCO Bill CTO Rubrik VP GTM OpenAI And Some of The Great New Summit VIPs: CMO Databricks CMO Insider SVPM Adyen CMO Brex CMO ActiveCampaign CMO CommerceTools CCO Sublime Security CCO Coursera CMO Workato VPCS Monday That’s about as good as it gets, folks! And 100s more braindates, workshops, speakers to come!

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