SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Alex Kayyal and Julie Kainz, Partners at Lightspeed, shared at SaaStr Annual a framework they developed around how to think about this new era of Artificial Intelligence in SaaS, what opportunities are out there for startups, and how to think about incumbents. CRM wasn’t a new category, but they were done on-premise.

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IT World

MARCH 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI today revealed the latest version of its computer program for natural language processing that powers ChatGPT , the wildly hyped chatbot with a fast-growing user base. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2024

Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. If they aren’t sure how to integrate AI into your product, ask if you need a new CTO. What are the biggest GTM mistakes founders make? Let’s jump right in.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

With a background in computer science and a passion for emerging technology, Victor has driven innovation in AI, machine learning, and immersive media. a next-generation AI-driven autonomous driving system that adapts to new environments through data-driven learning.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. As CTO of Clearent by Xplor, he helped grow its transaction processing from $2 billion to over $20 billion annually. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

No, the amazing innovation of the iPhone was simply to bring a new generation of user interface to market with the touchscreen – and to really enable a different interaction that people have with the computing devices. The iPhone was an amazing step forward, not because it brought forth a faster CPU or a better digital network.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last two years there have been so many new services around security, around machine learning that literally did not exist. What is their biggest challenge and what should they be focused on, whether they’re a CEO or a CTO, what would you say they should be focused on today? So the conversation is changing.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. With this popularization of blockchain came an influx of new users that caused infrastructure issues for websites interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. Table of Contents. In the 1990s, Web 1.0 Where Web 2.0

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

I’ve been intending to get my feet wet with the new Claude models from Anthropic, especially Opus. When I saw Simon’s recent “sidequests” post I decided to update to the latest version of his LLM CLI tool (part of Datasette ) and get Opus access from the command line, using the Claude plugin.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. Today, many people would probably say [the AI model] is largely the product.

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Neil Patel

JULY 7, 2021

Is it something we just have to continually improve and build on as new opportunities roll out? Social media, mobile apps, in-app ads, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and more have promised to help us put experience at the forefront. Are sales at a point where we can justify investing in and learning a new platform?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

Schank was “ a foundational pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and learning sciences ,” truly one of the original AI visionaries. When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. One of my CS professors was Roger Schank, who just passed away in January.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound inbound, and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. And by the time the song comes out, you’re not even going to really appreciate it because you’ve written 20 new songs, and those are the ones that you can’t wait to hear.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 3, 2021

Upon joining BetterCloud as its new CTO, Jamie Tischart was taken aback when he reviewed his professional biography with a colleague. What are some of the biggest challenges that you’d like to tackle as the company’s new CTO? We have to embed intelligence across every part of our technology and our stack.

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Frontegg

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. Charlie Gerard is the author of a book about practical Machine Learning in JavaScript and writes on her Twitter account primarily about these topics. ReactJS frontend developer at Facebook 311.9K

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So once I made the decision to move ahead on the launch of Crafty CTO , I wanted to get on with it. I started out skeptical of ChatGPT , the “word AI,” and its Large Language Model (LLM) brethren. ” Perhaps John had the same skepticism towards art models. With words!

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet.

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Valerian Tech

JANUARY 22, 2024

From the first personal computers to the latest artificial intelligence algorithms, each step forward has been a product of innovative thinking. Innovations lead to new products and services, creating jobs and opening markets. Why Innovation Matters in Tech Driving Progress Innovation is the engine of progress in technology.

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BetterCloud

MAY 17, 2021

Prior to joining BetterCloud as our new VP of quality, Waithe was a director of engineering at MailChimp. Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. It didn’t take me long to say, “Oh yeah, this is a leader I definitely want to work with and learn from.”

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

Last week he talked about his casual daily use of the new Claude 3 Opus model via his own LLM tool, as well as ChatGPT GPT-4. He describes such use as “sidequests,” a description that resonates with me and my own daily LLM use.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 21, 2023

Another innovation explosion appears to be underway; already Llama 2 derived models are near the top of the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard , and new Llama stories are still on the first page of Hacker News. That led to chatter on Hacker News around Apple’s place in the LLM / GPT space.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound and even follow-up sales campaigns faster. Outreach revolutionizes customer engagement by moving away from solid conversations to a streamlined and customer-centric journey, leveraging the next generation of artificial intelligence. Thanks for coming.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 19, 2023

Here’s how Morten Primdahl, co-founder & former CTO of Zendesk, put it in a recent conversation: “For someone like me who prefers to build business logic, using GPT is no more of a moat than using MySQL is. But many AI features will be bricks in your fortress, not something that greatly expands your moat, and again, that’s OK.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Gorgias developed an “Auto QA” system that uses large language models to analyze customer reactions, evaluating sentiment, satisfaction, and resolution. Auto QA Changes the Game Using AI to evaluate AI turned out to be surprisingly effective.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 26, 2018

Engineering, being the largest and oldest function in technology companies, now has a well defined individual contributor and manager career path all the way up to VP Engineering and CTO. An analyst retrieves, analyzes, and recommends, and is judged by not only how good those recommendations are, but how often they are followed.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Here she tells Martin Casado the story behind the release of ChatGPT—and what it tells us about the future of AI and human-machine interactions. [0:00] Sometimes you sleep and you wake up and you have a new idea. We all saw what happened.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. I use Kagi search , and beyond the core fact that, in stark contrast with Google, Kagi doesn’t suck, I’ve come to value its “Quick Answer” feature, which feeds search results through an LLM and generates an excellent summary with references.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 7, 2023

Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by discovering hitherto unknown routines. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 14, 2022

As the numbers of tech-based companies grow in number, there is a crucial point to note – Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption is also growing. While some say it is not necessary, some say it brings new perspectives towards AI. Experts’ Argument in Favor of Hiring Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer (CAIO).

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

And when you look under the Products menu, you see: Products / Training Products / Inference And finally, the language of Mosaic’s announcement post for MPT-30B is telling as well: [Mosaic Logo] Foundation Series MPT-30B Open-source LLM. Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people. Commercially licensed. More Powerful.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2024

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? Sales should be focused on closing new customers as much as possible because that’s what will make your business succeed over the long term.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. Hiten has a weekly SaaS newsletter that helps readers know new strategies, learn techniques, etc.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

But nearly every day, there’s been something new that’s at least important and sometimes game-changing. AI acceleration Looking at March AI news from high above, what stands out to me is acceleration, possibly even exponential acceleration. Caveat: a few days later, OpenAI released GPT-4, with premium prices.) HOLD MY BEER!”

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Knowing that CFO transformation is one of my favorite subjects (having run a planning company for six years) the folks at Sage invited me to moderate a set of panels at their San Francisco and New York media events this week.

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Unbounce

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As we explored new ways to help you convert more, Unbounce kept running up into the limitations of A/B testing. What if Unbounce taught a machine to optimize your landing pages for you? Today, we’re proud to bring you Smart Traffic , a proprietary landing page optimization tool built on machine learning.

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