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One Thing is Clear: AI Makes a Lot of Business Software Look Awfully Expensive Today. Is Deflation Coming?

SaaStr

Even leaders like Canva that were always cheap raised prices dramatically for their enterprise edition. The bottom line is SaaS got very expensive the past 2-3 years. As growth slowed, almost everyone looked to price increases. Those days may be over. AI, if nothing else, may put pricing pressure on SaaS. But it could soon turn deflationary.

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5 Great SaaStr Sessions with Databricks’ CEO, CMO, GM, VPP and VPS!

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The Future of AI, Open Source and Enterprise SaaS with Databrick’s Founder CEO Ali Ghodsi: #2. “Lessons Learned in Scaling Databricks, AWS, VMWare and More” with Databrick’s SVP and GM Ed Lenta #3. The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make with Databricks’ CMO Rick Shultz #4.

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Clouded Judgement 12.1.23 - Net New ARR Starts to Rebound + AWS ReInvent Recap

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now Amazon ReInvent This week Amazon had their annual AWS ReInvent conference. ” AWS fully embracing the breadth over depth approach. General purpose GenAI tools dominate the market today, but the tooling layer is starting to emerge to allow enterprises to fine tune models to their specific data.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc. Enterprise-focused companies with usage-based pricing bore the greatest increase at 44%. Often, a straight UBP pricing model doesn’t scale into the enterprise. Bill Macaitis, the former CMO of Zendesk, described Veblen goods behavior when Zendesk began to address enterprise customers.

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5 Security Changes Your Company Needs to Make to Land Enterprise Deals from Secureframe

SaaStr

That is, until you’ve got a major enterprise deal close to the finish line. At Secureframe , we help companies get enterprise ready by streamlining SOC 2 compliance and get them ready within weeks, rather than months. . Security, besides having a password that isn’t “password123”, is probably not a major priority. .

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What’s New At WorkOS and What It Takes To Be “Enterprise-Ready” in SaaS with WorkOS CEO and Founder Michael Grinich

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In this new SaaStr series called “What’s new at…,” Jason Lemkin chats with WorkOS CEO and founder Michael Grinich about what it takes to be Enterprise ready in SaaS, building vs. buying, and who the stakeholders are in a B2D motion. They offer all the features you need to sell to Enterprise customers. WorkOS is 4.5 No, you can’t.

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

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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 (..)