Social•Dec 1, 2025
Unity Catalog: Our Top Priority for Interoperability and Openness
I think Unity Catalog is the most important product we have developed at Databricks! This year we spend all our energy focus on UC interoperability and openness!
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Treat Your Brand Messaging Like an Annual Physical
People get a yearly checkup or “annual physical” with their doctor. It's to check how you're doing, catch anything early. In the same vein, you should get a messaging checkup every year. New competitors emerge, AI affects things, customer expectations change...
By Peep Laja
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Want 50% OFF SaaStr Annual 2026 tix? Win at https://t.co/9qnBt2pnqb "The year is 2049. You are an Account Executive attending SaaStr AI LDN... The product doesn't exist. The quota is real." https://t.co/R4cnsMADlt
By Jason Lemkin
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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•Nov 30, 2025
Hobby‑Driven F1 Gaming SaaS Hits $33K ARR
Love seeing founders turn their hobbies into profitable businesses. Live on @acquiredotcom: F1 gaming performance tracker SaaS. > $33K ARR > $26K TTM profit > 15% growth Full listing: https://t.co/k4yxWJv4Lx https://t.co/DaibGHHotW
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 30, 2025
AI‑Driven GTM Becomes the New Competitive Edge
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (@jdewitt29) Jeanne built @Stripe's legendary sales team from the ground up, and is currently COO at @Vercel, where she oversees marketing, sales, customer Success, and rev ops. In our conversation, we...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 30, 2025
AI-Driven GTM: Building Sales Teams That Scale
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Jeanne built Stripe 's legendary sales team from the ground up, and is currently COO at Vercel , where she oversees marketing, sales, customer Success, and rev ops. In...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Cheaper Development Spurs Competition, Not Commercial Software Value
Lowering the cost of building software does not change the fundamental value proposition of commercial software. Commercial software means that you get a dedicated organization that is accountable to running your tech, keeping your tech up to date with the...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Adobe's AI Gamble Threatens Its Creative Monopoly
Adobe’s AI push could cost them their monopoly and become their biggest strategic mistake👇 For years, Adobe has dominated the creative software market. Photoshop. Illustrator. Premiere. But that dominance is exactly what puts Adobe at risk. Adobe is The Innovator’s...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Public Markets Value SaaS at 2‑6× Revenue
This post from @rohitdotmittal says the quiet part out loud. Ultimately the public markets are the arbiters of value. So many great SaaS cos trade between 2x and 6x revenue. Important for founders to know this.
By Nick Mehta
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Buyers React After Losing Deals on Acquired.com
Buyers after losing deals on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/8lorf6uHHK
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Build SaaS with AI, No Coding Needed
If you’ve got a SaaS or AI product idea. But you don’t know how to code. You have two options: You can hire mercenary engineers to build it for you. Or, you can use AI to build it yourself. Now you’ve probably tried vibe coding...
By TK Kader
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Mission Defines Today, Vision Guides Tomorrow
What's the difference between a company's mission and vision? Here's how I think about it... A mission states who the company is, what it is pursuing and why. It's describes what is (hopefully) happening *today*. A vision describes where the...
By Dharmesh Shah
Social•Nov 30, 2025
B2B Payments: Shift From Money to AI‑Driven Negotiation
B2B payments isn’t a payments problem — it’s a communication + negotiation problem. Duncan Barrigan explains how Lunos is building an agent-to-agent future where AR and AP move at the speed of AI, not humans. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk https://t.co/UNVEENvgYK
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Scaling to $100M Is Getting Dramatically Faster
The pace from $1m to $100m keeps accelerating. Proud to be a supporting investor (and very early customer) at @saastrfund
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Revenue Is Non‑negotiable, Truth Can Bend
Truth is Flexible. Revenue is Mandatory. SaaStr AI LDN starts >tomorrow< https://t.co/JzwXFUEbZq
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Excited for SaaStr AI LDN Kick‑off Tomorrow!
Getting ready for SaaStr AI LDN kick-off tomorrow afternoon! See EVERYONE then!! https://t.co/uHO4iU1wJZ
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Google's New Replit Rival: Functional Gaps, Surprising Humor
Trying Google’s new Replit / Lovable competitor It doesn’t have enough functionality yet But it does seem to have a decent sense of humor https://t.co/8dbniBEH4j
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 30, 2025
Williams Sonoma Boosts Holiday Service with AI Chef
So inspired by Williams Sonoma lighting up the season with Agentforce Service and 'Olive,' their incredible virtual chef, handling 60% of chats, they're making holiday shopping and cooking even more joyful and seamless for everyone. That's the spirit of customer...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 29, 2025
AI Agents Turn Scarce Tasks Into Abundant Capabilities
On a daily basis there are new examples of AI agent use-cases that a company didn’t do previously because it was too expensive or impractical to scale. The economic impact of AI agents will be that we will, en masse, take...
By Aaron Levie