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6 Practical Reasons AI is a Threat to Traditional B2B Startups Today

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Much of a Threat is AI to Traditional B2B Startups Today? AI isn’t yet slowing down the big leaders in SaaS, from Salesforce to HubSpot to Workday. In fact, they are embracing it. Workday is seeing a 30% attach rate for its new AI products in new deals already: 5 Interesting Learnings From Workday at $9 Billion in ARR And AI is the core focus of Salesforce today: WSJ says Agentforce filling jobs faster.

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Tokenization

Tom Tunguz

data via Allium Coinbase is now tokenizing its stock on base. BlackRock has tokenized its on-chain treasury product BUIDL to the tune of $2 billion. There’s a regulatory arbitrage. Here’s the history of the regulation around taking a company public. Brad Gerstner tweeted: [link] [link] Fink also noted that IBIT was the third-highest asset gatherer in the entire ETF industry, behind only S&P 500 index funds, with more than half of its demand coming from retail investors and three-

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The Compound Startup Advantage: Why The CEO of Rippling Believes Focus Is Overrated

SaaStr

As we gear up for 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay , we wanted to take a look back at one of your favorite SaaStr conversations with Parker Conrad at SaaStr. Parker came to London to share just what he’s learned building a $12B+ compound start-up. And … the top mistakes they made. And come meet Rippling and learn its secrets to building compound products when their VP of Product Anique Drumright joins us on-stage at 2025 Annual !

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My Bottleneck with AI

Tom Tunguz

I’ve been watching my behavior evolve as I use AI more. Coding new projects, I started first by describing a big idea : generate a new website that ingests podcasts and transcribes them. But I quickly discovered this approach was like asking someone to build a skyscraper without blueprintsthe AI choked on requests too broad & lacking structure.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

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Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: AI + GTM with Jason & Sam, Owner’s CRO, SaaStr’s AI, Google Cloud’s VP Marketing

SaaStr

Top Posts You May Have Missed: #1. The #1 Thing That Makes Enterprise Customers See Value: A Great Dashboard #2. Thoma Bravo: Software Spend Will Grow 19% a Year Through 2028. AI is The Accelerant. #3. Fake Multi-Product vs. Real Multi-Product #4. The Problem with Small But Mighty AI Start-Ups #5. The Top 10 Learnings from Launching SaaStrs Own AI: What Every B2B Founder Needs to Know Top Pods & Vids: #1.

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