🎯Today's SaaS Pulse
Updated 2h agoWhat's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing, tying fees to customer gains
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing model for its Office of the CFO platform, removing implementation and subscription fees until the solution is live and then taking a share of verified financial gains. The model stems from a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
Also developing:
- •AWS Middle East datacenter hit by unknown objects, causing outage
- •Infobip unveils AgentOS, an AI‑native platform for autonomous customer journeys
By the numbers: Miso Robotics acquires Zignyl (value undisclosed)
Blog•Dec 30, 2025
Gross Profit per Token
Meta announced a $2 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based AI agent firm Manus, which reported $100 million annual recurring revenue and 147 trillion tokens processed since its March 2025 launch. The deal underscores the relevance of gross profit per token as a valuation lens, a metric that correlates 0.71 with market caps across six AI inference players. Manus trades at a 40× gross‑profit multiple, higher than low‑margin resellers like DeepSeek and Together AI but below application‑heavy Perplexity. The analysis suggests investors prize token monetization efficiency over raw volume.
By Tomasz Tunguz
News•Dec 29, 2025
US and Australian Agencies Warn MongoBleed Vulnerability in MongoDB Is Under Active Exploitation
U.S. and Australian cyber agencies have issued urgent alerts that the critical MongoDB flaw known as MongoBleed (CVE‑2025‑14847) is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability stems from improper handling of zlib‑compressed network messages, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Dec 29, 2025
N8n-Oidc
Self‑hosted n8n users face a steep $400‑per‑month enterprise license to enable single sign‑on, a cost dubbed the “SSO Tax.” A new open‑source project, n8n‑oidc, injects OpenID Connect support via n8n’s external hooks without any licensing fees. The solution provides standard...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 29, 2025
New Year's AI Surprise: Fal Releases Its Own Version of Flux 2 Image Generator That's 10x Cheaper and 6x More...
Fal.ai unveiled FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo, a distilled LoRA adapter that speeds image generation to eight inference steps while cutting costs to $0.008 per 1024×1024 output. The model outperforms open‑weight rivals on benchmark ELO scores and delivers 6.6‑second latency for high‑resolution...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 29, 2025
Obelisk 0.32: Cancellation, WebAPI, Postgres
Obelisk 0.32 adds cooperative cancellation for workflows and activities, letting developers abort leaf tasks while preserving compensating actions. The release also opens port 5005 to HTTP traffic, offering a simple WebAPI that returns plain‑text or JSON execution data. PostgreSQL support replaces SQLite...
By Hacker News
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Leadership Requires Intensity, High Standards, and Lean Teams
My top takeaways from Matt MacInnis , COO/CPO at Rippling : 1. Extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts. “If you ever find yourself in the comfort zone at work, you’ve definitely made a mistake.” 2. Your job as a leader is...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Dec 29, 2025
Yet Another Phishing Campaign Impersonates Trusted Google Services - Here's What We Know
Cybersecurity firm Check Point reported a new phishing wave that leveraged Google Cloud Application Integration to dispatch nearly 10,000 fraudulent emails to about 3,200 businesses within two weeks. The messages originated from a spoofed noreply-application-integration@google.com address, mimicking Google notifications and...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Messaging Debt Escalates Faster than Technical Debt
Messaging debt compounds faster than technical debt.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Replit's 24/7
By late 2025, Replit got really, really good: - Context windows can be unlimited - Sub agents solving tough issues - Design mode + Fast mode It finally got great. Now … imagine by late 2026 if it could run 24x7 It just keeps building,...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Dec 29, 2025
This Week on How I AI: How Webflow’s CPO Built an AI Chief of Staff
In this episode, Webflow CPO Rachel Wolan explains how she built a personal AI "chief of staff" to automate calendar management, meeting prep, email triage, and provide candid feedback. She highlights that creating bespoke, disposable AI tools for oneself reveals...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Dec 29, 2025
Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS
The article argues that separating the control plane from the data plane is reshaping SaaS delivery. In a decoupled model, the vendor provides the control plane as a managed service while customers run the data plane in their own cloud...
By The New Stack
News•Dec 29, 2025
How I Ditched Google Photos for My Own Private Self-Hosted Alternative - for Free
The ZDNET article walks readers through replacing Google Photos with Immich, a free, self‑hosted photo and video management solution. Immich runs in Docker containers on any Linux, macOS, or Windows machine, with Ubuntu Server used as the example. The guide...
By ZDNet
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Bootstrapped Founders Must Build, Not Buy, Growth
Don’t have money? Good. Neither do the Cubans and they find creative solutions for everything. That should be you. When you’re bootstrapped, you are forced to make a better product because it has to be so good that it distributes...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Predictable Growth Model Turns Trickle Into Pipeline Machine
When ThreatX first came, they were generating on avg 1 inbound demo request per month. Their challenges were clear: - Scaling inbound leads from paid media - Generating reliable opportunities - Gaining full-funnel visibility to prove ROI We applied our...
By devbasu
News•Dec 29, 2025
Samsung Plans to Bring Google Photos to Its TVs in 2026
Samsung announced it will launch a native Google Photos app for its smart TVs in 2026, ending the need for casting or sideloading. The initial rollout will feature the Memories experience, showcasing curated photos and videos, and will be exclusive...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Make Yourself Irrelevant to Boost Exit Valuation
If your business can’t survive without you, it isn’t an asset. It’s a job. I talk to founders every day who are proud of being "in the weeds." They close every lead, ship the critical code, and manage every fire. In...
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 29, 2025
Fintech’s Next Chapter: The Trends Expected to Shape 2026
European fintech remained resilient in 2025, with higher investment, robust M&A and rising interest in IPOs. Executives forecast that 2026 will be shaped by next‑generation API‑based embedded finance, interoperable stablecoins, and AI‑driven workforce initiatives. They argue that regulated banks will...
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 29, 2025
CIOs Keep Buying Tools. Workers Keep Burning Out. Here’s the Disconnect
CIOs are accelerating tool acquisition to meet relentless digital‑transformation demands, but the speed of change now outpaces the capacity of IT and security teams. Interviews reveal overlapping identity, cloud, AI, and security initiatives that force constant context‑switching and duplicate environments,...
By CIO.com
News•Dec 29, 2025
The Artists Collective Launches as an Artist-Led Investment Platform
The Artists Collective has launched as the United Kingdom’s first artist‑led investment platform, building on a quiet backing of 20 early‑stage technology companies. Founded by Fergus and Ruari Bell of The Players Fund, the collective brings high‑profile cultural figures such...
By Tech.eu
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Pick a Marketing Channel You Love for Explosive Growth
Founder-Marketing-Fit is a thing. But few upcoming founders consider this. It's simple: Pick a marketing channel that you enjoy. → If you're a developer: Use Engineering as Marketing. → If you love doing video: Do YouTube/TikTok or run video ads. → If you're great at public speaking: Do...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Dec 29, 2025
The True Cost of Device Downtime: How Mobile Failures Damage Customer Loyalty
Retail device downtime is eroding customer loyalty, with 60% of shoppers ready to switch brands after a single bad experience. Half of in‑store mobile endpoints run outdated operating systems, and a quarter cannot be upgraded, exposing retailers to freezes, ransomware...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Dec 29, 2025
The IT Sector Had Its Best Year Since 1996 — Thanks to AI
IDC reports that 2025 was the IT sector’s strongest year since 1996, with global IT spending reaching $4.25 trillion – a 14% increase year‑over‑year. The surge is driven primarily by massive AI infrastructure investments, especially in data‑center capacity, which jumped 86%...
By CIO.com
News•Dec 29, 2025
Inside Microsoft Ignite: How Microsoft and NVIDIA Are Redefining the AI Stack
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, NVIDIA and Microsoft unveiled a unified AI stack that couples NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs with Azure’s new NCv6 virtual machines, expanding cloud‑native compute for complex AI and visual workloads. The partnership also introduced Omniverse libraries on Azure,...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Motive's S‑1 Shows Growth Outpacing Samsara's IPO
Motive, the AI-powered fleet management company formerly known as KeepTruckin, filed their S-1 this week. The company has grown tremendously & in this post, we compare it to Samsara at IPO :
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Treat Your Roadmap as a Hypothesis, Ship to Validate
A product roadmap is a hypothesis about user behavior. Shipping is how you interrogate it.
By Hiten Shah
Blog•Dec 28, 2025
Member Brief: Why Shopify Should Acquire BigCommerce
A viral LinkedIn post by venture investor Jeremy Horowitz joking about buying BigCommerce caught industry attention when Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein publicly liked it. The gesture signals Shopify’s possible interest in acquiring the mid‑market eCommerce platform. Analysts interpret the like...
By 2PM Newsletter
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Founder-Led Sales Succeed when Commitment Outlasts Quick Fixes
Founder-led sales works when the founder sounds like someone who will still be there when the easy answers stop working.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Dec 29, 2025
Beyond ARR: Track Revenue Uplift, Usage, Velocity
At Year 2, ARR isn’t enough. 📊 Moonshot AI tracks customer revenue uplift, usage, and testing velocity—alongside ARR—to guide real progress. 🎧 SaaS CFO Podcast Ep. 224 ▶️ https://t.co/4EAZEOUVMC #SaaS #Podcast #AI https://t.co/uIKnDdTkA9
By Ben Murray
News•Dec 28, 2025
Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing
Arduino confirms its open‑source ethos and independent governance after Qualcomm's acquisition, while unveiling the Uno Q board that blends a Linux‑based compute system with a real‑time STM32 microcontroller. The board leverages Qualcomm's low‑power, high‑performance chipsets but remains silicon‑agnostic, avoiding vendor lock‑in....
By Slashdot
Social•Dec 28, 2025
13 Years of Daily Posts Built AI Knowledge Engine
👉August 22, 2012 to December 28, 2025 = 4,877 days 📖 I’ve written a SaaStr post every single day since August 22, 2012 That’s ~3.5 million words — more than 2x the entire Harry Potter series. Roughly 30+ full books. More than...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 28, 2025
Why WeTransfer Co-Founder Is Building Another File Transfer Service
Former WeTransfer co‑founder Nalden has launched Boomerang, a minimalist file‑transfer platform that lets users share files without logging in. The service offers a free anonymous tier with 1 GB total space and a 1 GB file limit, a free account with 3 GB...
By TechCrunch Apps
Social•Dec 28, 2025
From Too Early to Category Leader: GTM Clarity Wins
Every category leader had to survive a phase when they were "Too Early" Meet Wasim Khaled. He’s the CEO of https://t.co/KQvyyhgHk7. We started working together inside the Unstoppable GTM Program when he only had ONE customer. The US Department of Defense. They had...
By TK Kader
Social•Dec 28, 2025
From Too Early to Category Leader: GTM Clarity Wins
Every category leader had to survive a phase when they were "Too Early" Meet Wasim K. . He’s the CEO of BLACKBIRD.AI . We started working together inside the Unstoppable GTM Program when he only had ONE customer. The US...
By TK Kader
News•Dec 28, 2025
Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing
Martin Fowler, chief scientist at Thoughtworks, frames large language models as a move to nondeterministic computing, comparable to the historic shift from assembly language to high‑level languages. He contrasts deterministic binary logic with the probabilistic nature of LLM outputs, emphasizing...
By The New Stack
Social•Dec 28, 2025
Great Results Require Extreme Effort and Deliberate Constraints
“Extraordinary results demand extraordinary effort” A powerful conversation with Matt MacInnis (@stanine), long-time COO and newly minted CPO at @Rippling We discuss: 🔸 Matt’s transition from COO to CPO and what surprised him about leading product 🔸 The “high alpha, low beta” framework for...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 28, 2025
Even VPs Discover CEO Role Is Tougher than Expected
"I actually didn't know being CEO was this hard" -- every top VP that starts their own startup
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Dec 28, 2025
One Reason The Best AI B2B Startups Are Growing So Quickly: Truly Insane Value
AI‑driven B2B startups are scaling rapidly because they deliver ROI that is orders of magnitude higher than traditional solutions. The post highlights ElevenLabs’ $22‑per‑month voice‑over service that replaced a $3,000, weeks‑long process, achieving 1,000× cost and time savings, and cites...
By SaaStr
Social•Dec 28, 2025
Capital, MVP, and Partners Drive Early AI Success
Bootstrapping or fundraising? ⛽🚀 Moonshot AI knew early: to build something big, they needed capital—plus an MVP and real design partners to prove early PMF. 🎧 SaaS CFO Podcast Ep. 224 ▶️ https://t.co/4EAZEOUVMC #SaaS #AI https://t.co/oKz7cYA1gR
By Ben Murray
Blog•Dec 28, 2025
Dear SaaStr: My Co-Founder Is Threatening to Quit Unless I Give Him More Equity
A co‑founder threatens to quit unless granted additional equity, highlighting the common tension that arises as startups evolve. SaaStr notes that B2B co‑founder splits typically average a 2:1 ratio, but perceived fairness can shift after two years. The recommended remedy...
By SaaStr
News•Dec 28, 2025
Build Software. Build Users
The article argues that traditional testing cannot guarantee software quality because it often ignores real user behavior. It proposes "vibe coding"—using LLM‑driven agents that embody target users to inform development from the outset. By iteratively building user agents, defining happy‑path...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 28, 2025
Is ChatGPT Plus Worth Your $20? Here's How It Compares to Free and Pro Plans
OpenAI’s ChatGPT now comes in three tiers: a free plan with limited usage, a $20‑per‑month Plus plan that offers priority access, legacy models, and higher limits for images, video and coding tools, and a $200‑per‑month Pro plan delivering near‑unlimited resources...
By ZDNet
Social•Dec 27, 2025
Performance Before Payment Secures Deals
Yesterday, I got 2 emails from vendors trying to close deals by 12/31 with me. The first was a vendor that started off a bit rough, but then really delivered. They upgraded the team on the account, and they stepped...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 27, 2025
GLM 4.7 Auto‑fixes Rails Test, Saves Time
Good example of GLM 4.7 just one-shotting a fix for Rails PR to wrap it up while I was doing something else. All I fed it was the failing test from CI. Nothing groundbreaking, just time saved. https://t.co/E3ueHDW8AL https://t.co/7gje1UloFq
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 27, 2025
Scaling Secrets in AI Era Revealed by 10,000 Experts
https://t.co/5gjWmKLRrD is back. MAY 12-14 2026. The Secrets to Scaling in the Age of AI 10,000 of the best sharing how it's done https://t.co/f9I8gHsF4U
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 27, 2025
Feedback Turns Years of Trial Into Five Conversations
Feedback can compress 5 years of trial and error into 5 conversations. Not asking for it is just ego.
By Dan Martell
Social•Dec 27, 2025
Niche Real‑Time News SaaS Delivers $800K Revenue, 70% Growth
Niche SaaS plays like this are game changers. Real-time news API for global coverage live on @acquiredotcom > $800K TTM revenue > $600K TTM profit > 70% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/qAPFWjNXCv https://t.co/3T3Kq6mdfG
By Andrew Gazdecki