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Clouded Judgement - 3.28.25 - The New AI Risk Curve

Clouded Judgement

If you, as a software company, got to a certain scale and brand awareness, it was really hard for others to catch you. It simply took too much time to start a competitor, build a product, build a brand, and compete. Fast forward to the launch of AWS and the public cloud. .” This used to be how companies scaled!

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Top 10 Reasons SaaStr Annual 2025 Will Be Better Than Ever!! May 13-15 in SF Bay!

SaaStr

AI Speakers: CEO Snowflake + CEO Observe: Where B2B Applications Are Going CEO Box Aaron Levie: AI, Agents and The Next Era of SaaS COO Google Cloud Francis deSouza: Hyperscalers: The Future and More CTO Rubrik: Co-Founder & CTO, Arvind Nithrakashyap CTO Neo4j: Philip Rathle (Valuation $2B+): How Revolut Left Salesforce and More: Rolling Your (..)

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc. Consider whether your startup is differentiating on pricing to compete with an incumbent, or if you’re selling a superior product at a premium, in which case using the same pricing model with higher fees reinforces your brand positioning. So does Expensify, which decreases the time to file expenses.

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Payment and Checkout Scalability for D2C Gaming Partners

FastSpring

Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games: FastSpring is a payments partner you can trust for your players and which you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts.

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Who’s Accelerating in SaaS? DataDog. HubSpot. Zendesk. Everyone.

SaaStr

It really is almost everyone at SaaS that is at scale and has a winning brand. AWS accelerated to 37% YoY growth , up from 32% last quarter. Let’s take a look at a few: Datadog accelerated to 67% YoY growth , up from 51% last quarter. HubSpot accelerated to 53% YoY growth , up from 44% a year ago.

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Notes from Office Hours with Lisa Lawson

Tom Tunguz

The CEO may want a partnership for brand association. Your customers may not know that it’s your product under the hood, so while you may gain a bunch of revenue, your brand equity won’t appreciate. Marketplaces: AWS marketplace, Heroku marketplace, Salesforce marketplace. Internal Clarity.

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Who’s Coming to 2021 SaaStr Annual NEXT WEEK!!

SaaStr

Acuity Brands. Acadian Software. Activant Capital. Active Capital. Active Prospect. Active Campaign. Adams Street. Adaptive Pulse. Adorant Group. Advaita Capital. Advance Symbolics. AgencySync. Aurora Solar. Austin Innovation Capital. AuthentiKid. AutoDelegate. Automattic. Auvik Networks Inc. Avataier Corporation. Aventi Group.

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