Social•Feb 28, 2026
Celebrating My First $200k ARR Milestone
Claude code and Theanna launched days apart last year. Claude code hit $2.5B ARR in one year. I just hit $200k ARR today. No comparison but tons of emotions today: proud, relieved, excited, tired, stressed, ready.
By Nomiki Petrolla
Social•Feb 28, 2026
On‑Premise ERP Keeps Flexibility, Cloud Forces Rigid Upgrades
On-premise ERPs offered maximum flexibility: customizability, control over upgrades, and ownership. Cloud ERPs lose these benefits, forcing businesses into inflexible upgrade cycles and painful system switches. #ERP #CloudMigration #BusinessTech https://t.co/93E7e5vIvK
By Eric Kimberling
Social•Feb 28, 2026
APIs Must Become Core for Agent-First Software
As agents become the highest volume users of software in the future, a lot is going to become critical to support for them to be effective. Agents need to be able to signup for your tool on their own, have their...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Feb 27, 2026
AI Forced Me to Scrap My SaaS Pre‑launch
ICYMI: AI Killed My SaaS Why I replaced my own software before I could even properly launch it https://t.co/nDyTkKUqem
By Christoph Janz
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Vercel Launches Robust Queues API for Unbreakable Software
Queues are one of the most requested services since I started Vercel. They're now here. It's just two APIs: 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 and 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 😌. The use-cases are basically infinite. Notably: queues can make agents and AI apps reliable. Quality and reliability are top...
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 27, 2026
CEOs View AI Agents as Automation Catalyst, Demand Expert Engineers
I talk to Fortune 500 CEOs and CIOs all time that are starting to think about all the new things that they’re going to build software for, and automate. Agents are the first thing that makes this viable for them....
By Aaron Levie
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Free Trials Work When Value Triggers Prompt Payment
Founders: Free trials are fine, but they need clear value triggers. Like Yesware limiting free email tracking volume - when pros hit the cap, they're seeing enough value to pay. Don't give away your core value indefinitely. Gate it behind reasonable limits.
By Pete Kazanjy
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Early Bets Win; Amazon’s Late Entry Costs Billions
Early positioning beats late capital every time. Amazon just invested $50 billion in OpenAI for 6 percent ownership and distribution rights. Microsoft invested $13.8 billion starting in 2019 and owns 23.5 percent with exclusive IP, revenue sharing, and API control locked through...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Efficiency Revolution: Companies Will Trim Workforce by Half
Could you operate your company with half the people? Jack Dorsey’s announcement yesterday, reducing Block’s headcount from 10,000 to 6,000, should provoke this question in every management team. The stock surged 24%. Dorsey’s memo framed it as inevitable : > Within the...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Ignore Generic Advice; Trust Your Own Startup Journey
So far I’ve built two SaaS companies, and this advice almost killed both of them: “Your TAM is too small, it’ll never be a unicorn” “Drop your tiny startup and join this rocket ship” “Build a full go-to-market platform” Every person who gave me...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 27, 2026
900M Users, 50M Subscribers: ChatGPT’s Rapid Growth Fuels Better AI
ChatGPT just crossed 900M weekly users and 50M paying subscribers. The part I love most is seeing how differently people use it. For a lot of people, ChatGPT is where they start with AI – writing, building, doing research, planning trips,...
By Nick Turley
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Enterprise Focus Beats Freemium Hype, Drives $300M Growth
Vineet Jain's board: "Why aren't you doing freemium? Why are you swimming upstream?" Box and Dropbox were giving it away. Raising billions. He refused. Freemium is for consumers. Not enterprises. 2016: Gartner puts @Egnyte in the Leader quadrant. Next to companies that raised...
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Storytelling Beats Metrics in Early-Stage Fundraising
Metrics matter. But in early-stage fundraising? Storytelling matters more. In Ep. 234 of The SaaS CFO Podcast, Helen Hastings shares why vision + narrative win investor conviction. Listen here 👇 YouTube: https://t.co/BnQYh8fzzR #SaaS #Fundraising #Startups https://t.co/zRSXoqqM2z
By Ben Murray
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Generative vs Agentic AI: Different Impacts on Enterprise Strategy
Generative AI amplifies human knowledge work. Agentic AI removes humans from transaction systems. One strengthens cognition. The other restructures execution. If you are placing enterprise bets, the distinction matters. https://lnkd.in/gGQTRfsr #AI #SaaS
By Geoffrey Moore
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Inertia Poisons Judgment, Halting Progress.
From Clouded Judgement: The Poison of Inertia https://lnkd.in/g_HwrFac
By Jamin Ball
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Founders Overlook Core Messaging, Fuel Misaligned Growth
We surveyed 50 SMB founders on their marketing priorities and pain points. Buried in the data is a pattern nobody's talking about: Founders know their messaging is broken. And they're not fixing it. Direct quotes: "Our messaging is inconsistent and unclear. Docs site doesn't...
By Peep Laja
Social•Feb 27, 2026
60‑Second Value: The AI Growth Imperative
I’m running a 5-day intensive starting Monday for AI and SaaS founders. It’s called WARP Week. The premise: the fastest-growing companies in the AI era are getting users to value in 60 seconds or less. The ones that figured this out during...
By Wes Bush
Social•Feb 27, 2026
AI Will Return Sales to Full‑Cycle Sellers
In the 80s and 90s, most sales reps were full-cycle. They found their own meetings. They ran the process. They renewed and expanded accounts. Then we specialized: --> SDRs (thanks to the “predictable revenue” era) --> CSMs and post-sale roles (as we realized retention...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Cloud Promises Growth, but Risks Future Chaos and Rigidity
While cloud software guarantees future work for the tech industry, it brings future chaos and costs for buyers. Understand that you have less flexibility. Cracks in the cloud's foundation may appear in 10 years. #TechTrends #CloudComputing https://t.co/Lhc5GJmsbl
By Eric Kimberling
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Build AI Apps Where Users Pay via Vercel Wallet
We've upgraded https://t.co/iEcZHDkIiH with Nano Banana 2 via @vercel AI Gateway. What's cool about this playground is not just how convenient it is (try pasting, dragging, parallel jobs… it's good.) It's that you pay with your own @vercel AI Wallet. You sign...
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Cheaper AI Call Tools Could Replace $10k Gong Subscription
Hive mind: i'm thinking of replacing a mid 5-figure @gong_io subscription (Thousands of dollars per AE per year) with a $19 / month TL;DV or FirefliesIO. our core use case is call recording, AI summaries and CRM integration. Has...
By Larry Kim
Social•Feb 27, 2026
Cloud Vendors Trade Choice for Costly Lock‑in
The tech industry offers customers a false sense of choice. Big vendors push cloud solutions that increase costs, limit options, and lock you into their ecosystem, making future switches and integrations difficult. #TechIndustry #VendorLockIn #CustomerChoice https://t.co/m9jhf8a3ay
By Eric Kimberling
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Google Launches Gemini Code Wiki for Free Repo Docs
ICYMI, Google dropped Gemini Code Wiki. A free too that generates interactive docs from any GitHub URL 🤯 The tool lets you: → Chat with Gemini to understand *any* repo → Visualize code structure → Create docs from public repos 100% free. Link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/1k1gCmTUQv
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 26, 2026
AI Agents Replace Phone Trees with Seamless Voice Solutions
"Press 1 for support" is DEAD: Agentforce Voice is now available globally. 🌎 This is the Agentic Era — AI agents don't just answer questions, they SOLVE problems. Natural conversations. Instant understanding. Seamless handoffs to humans when needed. Adecco is already transforming...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Activation Holds the Hidden Growth Opportunity
In most of the growth troubleshooting I do — which spans qualitative research and a deep dive into product, marketing, and subscription analytics — activation is almost always where the opportunity is hiding.
By Asia Orangio
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Organic Surge: 307 Signups & New Editing Features
⚡️ WEEKLY VLOG 02 @ @ChoppityAI Founders are never truly satisfied with the speed of shipping, but looking back at this week... we’ve had some absolute bangers. We hit an all-time high of 295 signups in a single day (We broke...
By Mizko
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Speed's Gone, Quality Now Defines Competitive Edge
If you thought your company's edge was "how fast you ship", you're in for a rude awakening. Everyone can ship fast now. Obviously, not everyone can ship tastefully, with quality and restraint in mind. That's the new edge.
By Guillermo Rauch
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Hire Demand Generation, Not Just Brand, for Growth
I was on a call with a CEO. "We are 100% Sales-driven. We have absolutely ZERO Marketing" I probed a bit more to understand. Turns out they hired a CMO once for a 8 month stint. All she wanted to do was Brand...
By TK Kader
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Forecasts Shift: From Fixed Predictions to Adaptive Ranges
#CIOChat Q2: AI inference, usage-based SaaS, and consumption pricing have turned forecasts into moving targets. Are you shifting from prediction to ranges, scenarios, or adaptive guardrails, and what techniques are actually working? https://t.co/sWYQQdg3yb
By Dion Hinchcliffe
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Side Hustle SaaS Success Comes With Brutal Realities
I'm 40, I've built 7 SaaS products since 2022. Hivoe, Inboxs, Userdesk, Shipped, BlackTwist, and 2 that flopped hard. And I still have my 9-5. Here are 8 brutal truths about indie hacking on the side:
By Luca Restagno
Social•Feb 26, 2026
All‑in‑One vs Best‑in‑Class: Satisfaction Levels Similar
There's lots of discussion about the benefits of using fewer “all-in-one” software platforms that serve multiple functions (e.g., Advyzon, Orion) versus adopting a greater number of “best-in-class” tools for each individual function. https://t.co/5JYwewMmB2 In our research, we get at this by...
By Michael Kitces
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Cancel Fees Are Hostage Tactics, Not Retention Solutions
$105 to cancel a SaaS subscription is a hostage negotiation and I guarantee nobody understood that when they signed up. The answer to churn is NOT entrapment. If you're not delivering on your promises and someone wants to stop using your service,...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Feb 26, 2026
AI-Native Tools Are Eroding Software Friction, Seize the Window
I was building a quiz last month using a tool I’ve used for years. Halfway through, I had a thought I’d never had before: This is way too much work. The tool hadn’t gotten worse. My expectations had changed. So I threw the same...
By Wes Bush
Social•Feb 26, 2026
OrchidsApp 1.0 Enables Building Any App on Any Stack
Been testing the new @orchidsapp 1.0. It's unlike anything I've seen. → Build *ANY* app → Across *ANY* stack → Web, Mobile, Agents, Python, Chrome extensions, robotics.. ... you can even plug in your ChatGPT/Claude Code subs 🔥 8 wild use cases 🧵↓ https://t.co/VFNQWkHqiv
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Roam Builds Virtual Office for Future Collaboration and Events
pretty wild what @howard + the @roam team have painstakingly built, iteration by iteration, to enable the virtual office of the future; now empowering modern companies to host virtual events, enable spontaneity, humans to work together (w/ agents, too), and...
By Scott Belsky
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Great Founders Avoid Over‑deferring to Senior Hires
New episode of Long Strange Trip with @bhorowitz of @a16z is now live. The first time I pitched Ben for @HubSpot, he passed on us. It stung. So naturally, it’s the first thing I brought up with him in this convo. He’s...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Feb 26, 2026
You Dictate What Customers Deem Important
You wonder why customers fixate on certain metrics, output, results, or even features when those aren't important. But you're the one putting those in front of them. And they think you know what you're doing. So they assume it's important.
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Compliance Beats Headcount: 12‑person Startup Secures $300M Deal
Egnyte had 12 employees when a Fortune 86 company asked to visit their office. "If they see it's just a bunch of people, will they cancel?" They didn't cancel. They bought more. The lesson: enterprise certifications and compliance mattered more than headcount. That 12-person...
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Flexport Winter 2026 Tech Release Live at 8 Am PT
I'm presenting Flexport's Winter 2026 Tech Release at 8 am PT (in 10 minutes). Watch live at this link, and then I'll be taking live questions from the audience after the presentation: https://t.co/BNfvF8nm6x
By Ryan Petersen
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Structure Your Homepage: Prioritize Outcomes Over Features
That’s the problem. • Homepage speaks to every persona • CTA assumes everyone wants a demo • Hero lists features, not outcomes High-converting sites are structured. Every element has a job. Fix the weakest section first. Then the next. See the 8-part framework 👇 https://t.co/JDMlMnrHfM
By devbasu
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Top 5 Payment Processors Control 56% Market
Will anyone dislodge Stripe as the payments king? This chart is about the same as last year. Stripe lost a few points, but the same number of Do Not Accept / N/A remains the same. PayPal remained the same. Survey Highlights: • 38 payment...
By Ben Murray
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Own Your Small Size, Win Enterprise Trust
Every early-stage founder has the same nightmare. Your biggest customer visits, sees your entire "company" fits in a tiny room, and cancels. That's exactly what Vineet Jain (@CloudNotEnough) at @Egnyte had to face when they were a 12-person startup. One of their...
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Confluent Adds MCP and A2A Support to Its Platform
Agent standards like MCP and A2A are starting to show up in more types of packaged software. @confluentinc just shipped updates to their data products, including their "intelligence" platform that now supports A2A and MCP integrations. https://t.co/n8teMonFMW https://t.co/1f7afnSw8K
By Richard Seroter
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Focus on Revenue, Not Free Work, in Cold Emails
The best performing cold email is the one that leads to paying customers. You can generate a lot of positive replies by offering to do free work. Oh, you'll make it up in volume. Got it.
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Snowflake Posts 30% Revenue Surge, Record Bookings
Snowflake prints 30% revenue growth and record bookings momentum $SNOW delivered Q4 revenue of $1.28B (+30% YoY) with product revenue at $1.23B (+30%) and EPS of $0.32, beating estimates by 23%. Growth is re-accelerating at scale. RPO climbed to $9.77B (+42%), billings...
By Sergey CYW
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Automation Boosts Demand for Skilled Engineers, Not Reduces It
This is counterintuitive for some, which is why there’s a paradox named after it. But if you lower the cost of something that was previously supply constrained, demand for that thing goes up. Software engineering is just one of the...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Snowflake Beats Estimates, Shows AI-Driven Growth
$SNOW revenue, RPO and guidance came in ahead of consensus and the WSJ headline says company benefiting from AI adoption. This is the point we've been making for several weeks... some infrastructure software businesses are beneficiaries of AI. https://t.co/dX1lJsYfye
By Puru Saxena
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Open‑Data Slack Clone Will Trigger Mass Migration
Slack will be the Waterloo of open vs closed data. Someone is going to make a slack clone where you get unfettered access to your own data, and people really will switch en masse.
By George Fraser
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Securely Connect Box to OpenClaw for Agent Collaboration
Agents need access to their own file system, and they need to collaborate with other people and agents securely. Here’s how to setup Box with OpenClaw so it has a place to store and share its work. This skill is...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Feb 26, 2026
Vercel Automates 90% Support, but Model Upgrades Falter
📈 The Vercel support agent is now handling ~90% of customer inquiries without human intervention. Shockingly, we've been unable to upgrade to Opus 4.6 from 4.5 without measurable performance and customer sentiment degradation. The "best model" is a moving target. Bullish on...
By Guillermo Rauch