Sun.Apr 27, 2025

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Top SaaStr Posts and Pods Of the Week: AI Can’t Sell … Yet; AI is 71% of VC $$$; What It Really Takes To IPO

SaaStr

Top Posts: #1. Forge: The Secondary Markets for Hot Start-Ups Are Back! Just Not So Much for Enterprise Software #2. AI Cant Sell Yet. But Its Probably Already Smarter Than Much of Your Sales Team #3. VC Deals in 2025 Off To Same Pace as 2024. And AI is 71% of All VC Dollars. Per NVCA #4. The One Bit of Math Almost All Founders Get Wrong: Dilution #5.

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When Every Employee Becomes an Agent Boss

Tom Tunguz

If every employee starts managing agents, how does a company change? First, “83% of global leaders say AI will let employees take on more complex, strategic work earlier in their careers.” One executive recently framed this transition of teams evolving to three areas of work : operational, tactical, & strategic. Operational work can be mostly fully automated today.

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Look, Basically All The Money in Venture is in the SF Bay Area Now

SaaStr

There’s no question you can found a great B2B company anywhere today. Hopefully, Canva will IPO soon — straight from Australia. Several of the latest B2B IPOs are HQ’s far from SF, from Klaviyo to Onestream. But venture capital? Well, in the Age of AI it’s become radically centered in the SF Bay Area again. This latest slide from Pitchbook really illustrates the trend: Yes, these numbers are inflated by the mega AI deals, from OpenAI to Databricks and more.