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

SaaStr

800+ VCs Ready to Invest This year, were bringing together over 800 VCs and investors, making SaaStr Annual 2025 the ultimate place to pitch, connect, and secure funding. And we’ve got an AI Demo Stage running all day, every day this year, right in the heart of Annual. 100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it!

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What Has Your GPU Done For You Today?

Tom Tunguz

Today, buyers are more familiar & have security options : deploying AI on virtual private cloud architectures, tools to delete data from cloud AI vendors, dedicated security tools for AI, & a panoply of open source alternatives. ROI (return-on-investment) has replaced fear. AI is expensive.

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What Order Should You Hire Your Management Team In?

SaaStr

ARR VPCS: $2m ARR VPP: $3m-$4m ARR VPE: $5m-$6m ARR CFO: $10m ARR COO: $20m ARR. Enough to invest, but not enough to go crazy with. IME, rough order to make hires in: VPM: $0.2m ARR VPS: $1-$1.5m More here: [link]. — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) July 21, 2019.

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Why invest precious time on such a limited solution? Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs. do you mean, sir?

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

It took us longer than that, but I think we were earlier in that cycle, so I think the cloud marketplace teams have gotten better. It’s definitely an investment that requires that kind of executive level visibility. And to build off that point, invest the resources. I think it’s at least six to nine months.

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16 Changes to the Way Enterprises Are Building and Buying Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

We believe that AI startups who 1) build for enterprises’ AI-centric strategic initiatives while anticipating their pain points, and 2) move from a services-heavy approach to building scalable products will capture this new wave of investment and carve out significant market share. Measuring ROI is still an art and a science.