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Updated 37m agoWhat's happening: FoodOp secures £4.4 million to scale AI‑powered kitchen SaaS
FoodOp, a SaaS platform for professional chefs, raised £4.4 million in a round led by MK Capital to accelerate its rollout in the UK and US. The service is used daily by over 2,000 chefs across more than 700 kitchens, automating procurement, menu planning and budgeting with AI‑driven tools.
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News•Dec 1, 2025
This Week in SaaS - Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2025
Top exits, deals, news, and blog posts of the week
By SaasRise
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Group Bots and Recorders Into One Zoom Video Box
Idea for Zoom : Have a special designation/detection for participants in a meeting that are agents, bots and meeting recorders. Put all of these participants in their own single "box" in the video gallery (so you could show up to...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Could Replace Slow Sales Reps With Instant Answers
Last Thursday I reached out directly to a sales rep with a product I wanted to buy. I’m busy at SaaStr AI LDN and just wanted to buy. I just had 2 questions, ready to sign and go for $10k+...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Dec 1, 2025
Careful! That Calendar Notification Could Be Loaded with Malware - Here's How to Stay Safe
Researchers at Bitsight have uncovered a new attack vector that exploits calendar subscription features in popular apps. When a calendar provider’s domain expires or is compromised, cyber‑criminals can hijack the .ics feed and inject malicious links into users’ schedules. The...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Agent Saves $2M by Spotting Drawing Errors
.@inspectmind's AI agent reviews construction drawings, specs, and building codes to catch issues before they turn into rework, delays, or lawsuits. It flags dimension errors, materials mismatches, code violations, and coordination gaps across architectural, structural, civil, and MEP drawings. On one $100M...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Curiosity‑Driven CEOs Build Trust Through Open Dialogue
I came across a recent Fortune article on McKinsey’s “CEO whisperers,” and it made me think about what truly enables leaders to excel. The most successful CEOs were portrayed as active learners, constantly asking questions, inviting discomfort, and building systems...
By Tiffani Bova
News•Dec 1, 2025
DeepSeek Just Dropped Two Insanely Powerful AI Models that Rival GPT-5 and They're Totally Free
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, unveiled two 685‑billion‑parameter models—DeepSeek‑V3.2 and the high‑performance DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale—under an MIT open‑source license. The models employ a novel Sparse Attention architecture that halves inference costs for long‑context tasks, supporting 128,000‑token windows at roughly $0.70 per million...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Customer Experience Becomes Key Competitive Advantage
"The experience that you have of being sold to will increasingly differentiate a company, and drive buying decisions. If products are only different at the margin, then you really wanna create a customer buying journey that feels like a very...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Unlock LinkedIn Growth with Alec Paul’s Proven Method
Over the past 18mo, I’ve generated 35m views, 250k engagements, had more than 40 viral posts, and (most importantly) booked $6m ARR from LinkedIn alone. I don't use a ghostwriter, but I do have a secret weapon: Alec Paul ....
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 1, 2025
Amazon and Google’s New Cloud Link Could Make It Easier to Deal with Outages
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud have launched a private interconnect that lets customers link the two platforms in minutes via console or API. The service includes proactive failure detection and coordinated maintenance to prevent overlapping outages. It aims to...
By The Verge
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Six‑Week AI Shift Reduces SDRs Tenfold
I remember hosting a dinner of sales leaders to talk about AI. I asked them what will your CRM do for you in the future? Nearly unanimously came the reply : enable salespeople to spend most of their time with customers. Listening...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Cuts SDR Team Tenfold in Six Weeks
I remember hosting a dinner of sales leaders to talk about AI. I asked them what will your CRM do for you in the future? Nearly unanimously came the reply : enable salespeople to spend most of their time with...
By Tomasz Tunguz
News•Dec 1, 2025
AI Models Block 87% of Single Attacks, but Just 8% when Attackers Persist
Cisco’s AI Threat Research team discovered that open‑weight large language models block 87% of single‑turn malicious prompts but see attack success soar to 92% when adversaries persist across multiple turns. The study evaluated eight popular models and found multi‑turn success...
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Pick Content Channels by Guess‑Test, Not 40‑Page Decks
Good news: you don’t need a 40-page audience research deck to pick your next content channel. You can "guess and test" your way there. Here are two paths marketers can take: 1) Use tools (like SparkToro) to see where your...
By Amanda Natividad
News•Dec 1, 2025
Runway Says Its New Text-to-Video AI Generator Has ‘Unprecedented’ Accuracy
Runway unveiled its Gen-4.5 text-to-video model, touting unprecedented physical accuracy and visual precision. The new system delivers more realistic motion, weight, and fluid dynamics while better adhering to detailed prompts. Gen-4.5 is being rolled out gradually to all users, maintaining...
By The Verge
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
This Week on How I AI: “PMs Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don’t” With Marily Nika
In this episode, Google AI product lead Marily Nika walks through an end‑to‑end AI workflow that turns a product idea into a full vision in minutes, using tools like Perplexity for research, custom GPTs for PRDs, v0 for prototyping, and...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Dec 1, 2025
From $2.5M to $25M: Blueprint for Startup Growth
I was stuck at $2.5M ARR for 4 years. Every big swing failed, and I was told I’m wasting my life on a tiny startup. I wrote down exactly what I wanted in 2016. 9 years later, I'm living it at $25M ARR. This...
By Adam Robinson
News•Dec 1, 2025
Shopify Is Down– Here's What We Know About Its Cyber Monday Outage
Shopify experienced a widespread login outage on Cyber Monday, beginning around 9:08 am ET, affecting the admin dashboard for thousands of merchants globally. While storefronts continued to process sales, merchants were unable to access their back‑office, prompting numerous reports on Downdetector and...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Shift From UI to Agent Experience with Prompt Guidance
Seemingly everyone is replacing point-and-click with a prompt bar. Design no longer differentiates. We're going to need to differentiate on the *agent* experience instead. One 🔥 example from Replit : The product helps you improve your prompt. Most of us...
By Kyle Poyar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Don’t Let Metrics Become Targets, Focus on Humans
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law I've been on a bit of a metrics and attribution kick lately, and I talked a bit about Goodhart's Law in my conversation with...
By Ashley Faus
News•Dec 1, 2025
Why the Most Impactful AI Strategies Still Start and End with People
AI agents are emerging as powerful productivity tools, but PwC argues they are amplifiers rather than replacements for human talent. Executives view AI agents as a near‑term competitive advantage, with 73 % expecting significant gains, yet success hinges on aligning agents...
By TechRadar
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
The 8 Things No One Tells You About ‘Prosumer’ Vibe Coding (That You Need To Learn To Build a Real...
Jason Lemkin outlines the hidden challenges of AI‑assisted ‘vibe coding’ for B2B SaaS products. While AI agents can generate functional code quickly, they also hallucinate, require rigorous verification, and lack built‑in quality controls. Lemkin stresses that non‑technical founders must adopt...
By SaaStr
News•Dec 1, 2025
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Is Still Hiring Humans in the AI Era
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledges that early Watson efforts were technologically sound but mis‑timed, prompting a shift toward modular, enterprise‑focused generative AI via the new Watsonx platform. He argues that AI costs will fall dramatically over the next five years...
By The Verge
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Demand One Unreasonable Effort to Drive Massive Growth
"What is the one thing you will put unreasonable effort into this week?" That's the question Richard Hollingsworth asks his team every Monday. And considering his company, Fyxer AI , went from $1M to $18M ARR in just 9 months...
By Omer Khan
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Hype Dies; Startups Shift From Replacement to Augmentation
11x and Artisan burned brighter than any AI startups in early 2025. Massive funding rounds ($500M+). Viral media campaigns. You couldn't mention AI SDRs without talking about them. Now? Crickets... But here's what nobody's saying: They didn't disappear. They pivoted....
By Amos Joseph
News•Dec 1, 2025
OpenAGI Emerges From Stealth with an AI Agent that It Claims Crushes OpenAI and Anthropic
OpenAGI, a stealth startup founded by MIT researcher Zengyi Qin, unveiled Lux, an AI foundation model that autonomously controls computers. Lux achieved an 83.6% success rate on the Online‑Mind2Web benchmark, outpacing OpenAI’s Operator (61.3%) and Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use (56.3%)....
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Free 2026 Martech Report Launch Tomorrow – Get Priority Access
After months of research and interviews, tomorrow (Dec 2) is the big release of our new 123-page MARTECH FOR 2026 report. 🚀 There's still time to sign up to get priority access to the report at 11am EST and have...
By Scott Brinker
News•Dec 1, 2025
Security Researcher Uncovers 17,000 Secrets in Public GitLab Repositories
Security researcher Luke Marshall scanned public GitLab Cloud repositories and uncovered more than 17,000 exposed secrets across 2,800 unique domains. The findings dwarf similar scans of Bitbucket (6,200 secrets) and Common Crawl (12,000 valid secrets). Most leaked credentials were recent...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Postgres + Pgvector Outperforms Pinecone for RAG
I just brutally cut another 3rd-party dependency. Our Vector Database: Pinecone. Pinecone used to be an essential building block in Aidbase's RAG system. It would store tens of millions of individual knowledge points from the custom models our users are training on their...
By Simon Høiberg
Podcast•Dec 1, 2025•0 min
“PMs Who Use AI Will Replace Those Who Don’t”: Google’s AI Product Lead on the New PM Toolkit | Marily...
In this episode, Google AI Product Lead Marily Nika demonstrates a full AI‑driven product management workflow using a smart‑fridge concept, from Reddit‑sourced user research with Perplexity to PRD generation via custom GPTs, interactive prototyping with v0, and stakeholder‑ready video mockups...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
Two Billion+ B2B Companies Lost Salesforce Access Indefinitely. This Is Your Security Wake-Up Call.
Two high‑profile SaaS vendors, Gainsight and Drift, were forced off the Salesforce AppExchange after a sophisticated threat actor stole OAuth tokens and exfiltrated data from hundreds of customers. Salesforce revoked the compromised tokens, pulling both companies' integrations offline indefinitely. The...
By SaaStr
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Stack Delivers 70% Response, 15k Emails, $1M Leads
We’ll share TOMORROW at SaaStr AI LDN our whole AI stack live, how it works, what doesn’t, and an open AMA: - How we really got a 70%+ response rate on @salesforce Agentforce - How we sent 15,000 outbound emails with AI...
By Jason Lemkin
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
Six Billion Reasons to Cheer for Shopify
Shopify merchants generated $6.2 billion in sales on Black Friday, a 25 % increase over the previous year. The platform’s infrastructure endured extreme load, peaking at 31 million API requests per minute and handling 53 million reads and 2 million writes per second. This scale...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Buyer Journey Now Pinball, Not Funnel: 7 New Problems
NEW post - https://lnkd.in/g9mxMCt3 This week's #5MinuteWhiteboard is a follow-up to last week's exploration of how the clean, funnel-shaped buyer journey of years past no longer exist (and today that journey looks more like a pinball machine). It's not just...
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Stuart Faught’s Formula Sold 18 Startups for Millions
Stuart Faught has sold 18 startups (yes seriously) on @acquiredotcom totaling millions in closed acquisitions. Here's how he makes that happen: https://t.co/cLIHwCEGgj
By Andrew Gazdecki
News•Dec 1, 2025
Agent Coordination Is the Missing Piece in AI Commerce — New AWS and Visa Blueprints Target the Gap
AWS has added Visa’s Intelligence Commerce platform to its Marketplace, pairing Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol tools with Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore. The joint effort includes publicly available blueprints that streamline multi‑agent workflows such as travel booking and B2B payment reconciliation....
By VentureBeat
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Getting Ready for Massive Live Podcast at SaaStr AI London
Prepping for massive live pod with @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll and me tomorrow at SaaStr AI LDN!! https://t.co/GrNgLU8TVB
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Master Accounting, Bookings, Retention to Reach $1M ARR
Scaling to $1M ARR? Nail your accounting foundation, track real bookings, and measure retention early. These are the must-have metrics every SaaS operator should track on the climb to $1M ARR. 🎥 Watch: https://t.co/91tumEocFT #SaaS https://t.co/WLFQgA0ahq
By Ben Murray
Social•Dec 1, 2025
DIY Internal Tools Are Costly, Risky, and Inefficient
The idea that we’ll vibe-code clones of internal tools and stop buying software is overstated, for now Building/PMing/testing/maintaining your own CRM/Notion/Linear needs at least 1 full-time engineer It’s risky, worse, costly, and reduces engineering capacity, and for what?
By Des Traynor
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Adopt Multi‑product Strategy Early to Avoid Growth Wall
The #1 thing I wish I had done sooner at Gainsight: multi-product to avoid the "growth wall." Every market flattens out eventually. For some (e.g., search advertising), it takes a long time. But for most, it happens sooner than you think....
By Nick Mehta
Social•Dec 1, 2025
SaaStr 2025 Summit Kicks Off with Vibrant Fiesta A
SaaStr 2025 Summit Stage - Fiesta A https://t.co/4WXGo4lfpk
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
AI Hype Promises DIY Enterprise Tools, Businesses Remain Skeptical
X: “You can just roll your own Workday or Salesforce in a day using AI why would anyone pay anything” 95% of Businesses: “What”
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
SaaStr AI London Conference Now Open for Registration
And SaaStr AI LDN is open!! https://t.co/ahWAezvXSB
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
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By Jason Lemkin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Comparing Recent Usage of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity
Can you tell me how you're using ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Claude vs. Perplexity over the last 30-60 days? Has anything changed, are you using more than one of these tools, just going deep with one, different use case/reason for one...
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Turn Rough Recordings Into Polished Videos Instantly
Your product ships fast. Your videos should too. @goClueso turns any rough screen recording, document, or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes. 1,000+ startups and enterprises already use Clueso for product demos, onboarding, training, product marketing, support documentation, sales enablement,...
By YCombinator
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Prioritize Distribution Before Perfecting Your Product
Focus your startup on distribution 1st then build the best product 2nd.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Tailscale Makes VPN Switching Effortless with Magic DNS
Never thought a VPN could get me excited, but I love how easy Tailscale makes switching between nicknamed tailnets, and giving me access to all these magic DNS endpoints. Such a great product. https://t.co/Pxxxxr7YyV
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Shopify Shows How Far Rails Can Scale
"Shopify is the patron saint of Ruby on Rails. Its infrastructure team is the backbone of our ecosystem, and its continued success the best case study of how far you can take this framework and language. They deserve a gawd...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Rails Introduces Schematized JSON Accessors for Flexible Settings
Rails is getting schematized json attribute accessors with has_json and has_delegated_json. Very helpful for settings, flags, and other data bags that can grow without migrations, need defaults, and typed assignment from UI strings. https://t.co/dOrRQHbqqp https://t.co/Z8Pycz2J2T
By David Heinemeier Hansson