Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Agent Handles 77 Conversations, Amplifying Small Team Power
Our general AI Agent ("Digital Jason") handled 77 conversations and 203 messages yesterday. Most were pretty good, I am sure. But the real point is I couldn't have done it. Nor could our tiny team. This is some of the biggest leverage in AI. Getting an AI "good enough" to do things … you have no human to do.
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Explore Top B2B AI VCs with SaaStr Research
Want to learn more about top VCs in B2B + AI? Browse our new SaaStr AI Research VCs -> https://t.co/3JyImX3jMX We'll even help pick the best ones for you (and much more to come) https://t.co/rG7K5x5YYU
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
First‑Week Buyer Outreach Numbers Reveal Rapid Interest
"How many buyers reached out within the first week on @acquiredotcom?" https://t.co/8zCjkJeLGw
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI-Powered Marketplace Unlocks Previously Untapped Offline Market
.@arthur_leopold and Jonathan are a force. Ambitious, focused, hungry, hard working, insightful, and obsessed with their customers. Classic right founders + right timing, leveraging AI to crack open an offline, friction-ful market that has eluded automation. We've learned many times...
By Sarah Tavel
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Scaling Fast: Parker Conrad Keeps 4,000‑Person Rippling Agile
ALL of the CEOs I interviewed for Long Strange Trip complain about how their companies slow down and get less sh_t done as they scale. I felt this at HubSpot too back in the day. Learn how @Parkerconrad moves Rippling 4,000...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Clean, Connected Data Fuels AI Success with Informatica
You have to get your data right to get your AI right. Data + context are the true fuel of Agentforce—without clean, connected, trusted data, there’s no intelligence… just hallucination. Welcome Informatica turning fragmented enterprise data into context so every...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Salesforce Launches $500M AI Initiative in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG https://t.co/9DJE699eFq
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Salesforce Launches $500M AI Venture in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
From $200 Developer Tool to Enterprise AI Scale
AI adoption often starts with a single developer spending $200/mo—but the real play is getting embedded and expanding to enterprise. Matt Blumberg breaks down the PLG → enterprise motion on Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast 👉 https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B #SaaS #AI https://t.co/Oa2WXObU5a
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 18, 2025
20 Years of Revealing What Users Actually Do
Crazy Egg turns twenty this month. The part that stayed constant is simple. We set out to show what users actually do on a web page, and that view changed how people built. We’ve been working on something that brings that feeling...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Slow Growth? Check Your Pricing Before Marketing
That slow growth you're experiencing? It might not be a marketing problem. When we troubleshoot growth with SaaS companies, pricing is often one of the first things we look at. At DemandMaven, we start by talking to customers then running...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Floods Content, Makes Original Thought the New Scarcity
50% of the internet's content is now AI-generated. After 3 hrs deep in Graphite's full data science report, I can tell you: What you're celebrating as an opportunity is actually a warning sign. Graphite's data science team analyzed 65,000 articles...
By Amos Joseph
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Rapid Growth, Not Just Features, Defines an AI Native
How to know if you are an “AI Native” start-up: 🚀 You are growing much, much faster than last year Otherwise, you just have AI Features
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Master 4 Core SaaS Skills to Scale Solo
Are you a technical founder wondering if you need a co-founder? Like so many things, I think "it depends". In episode 807, I explore: - A new mental model around the 4 Core SaaS Skills every startup will need - How...
By Rob Walling
Social•Nov 18, 2025
B2B Neglects Deep Customer Research Compared to B2C
customer research in B2B vs. B2C: B2B: - UX product research B2C: - focus groups - surveys - 1:1 interviews - at home ethnographies - shopper research at the store - website heatmap - social media monitoring - 3rd party trends studies - etc. b2c gets it, b2b is still very very very...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Cut Cloud Costs 90% by Switching to Bare Metal
I'm leaving the cloud +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill on AWS from $7800 on...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Reducing Churn Drives Biggest ARR Growth for SaaS
Churn isn't a Customer Success problem. It's a *business* problem. And it might be why you miss the 2026 plan. Just look at the 3-year ARR impact of different growth initiatives^ for a typical $10M ARR SaaS co: - Increase prices...
By Kyle Poyar
Social•Nov 18, 2025
New Pricing Models Demand Advanced Billing Solutions
Have you noticed all the LI posts and conversations on how pricing models are evolving? The reality is that subscription pricing based on seats (users) is a hallmark of traditional SaaS... ...and new pricing models like Usage-Based, Outcome-Based, Value-Based, Hybrid (Subscription +...
By Ray Rike
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Business Model Shift Ends Advisor Role, Not Performance
Today was a tough founder decision. We simplified our sales motion at ProductLed, which meant the Advisor role we'd been testing came to an end. And with that shift, Matthew Baker is now back on the market. Matthew stepped into an early-stage...
By Wes Bush
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Beautiful UI Is the New SaaS Baseline
Make Your SaaS UI/UX Beautiful ✨ The first step to building a successful SaaS business isn't marketing...it's beauty. Build a product so intuitive, clean and obviously useful that people fall in love the moment they touch it. Solve a Real Problem. Beautifully. Start...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Founders Make Best Marketers in Ever‑Changing Channel Landscape
Marketing is a creative and adversarial game. Channels get discovered, exploited, and discarded. New products need new distribution. It’s hard to hire rule-breakers, so the best marketers tend to be the founders themselves.
By Naval Ravikant
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI-Driven SaaS Funding Surge Fuels M&A Activity
This Week in SaaS: Nov 11–17, 2025 Big SaaS VC Rounds Parallel Web Systems – $100M Series A to fuel AI-search infrastructure & GTM Beacon Biosignals – $86M Series B to accelerate neuro-diagnostics insights Scribe – $75M Series C for enterprise workflow AI Sweet...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Databricks Unifies Iceberg V3 and Delta Lake
Super excited to announce Apache Iceberg v3 support in Databricks! This marks the unification of the data plane of Iceberg and Delta Lake inside Databricks. Great job by everyone in the community that made this possible! https://lnkd.in/gvBqW-Hi
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Nov 18, 2025
Agentforce Instantly Taps Your Salesforce Data for Contextual Emails
“Here’s what I think most people miss about Agentforce: it knows everything your Salesforce knows. That’s the beauty of it. It has all your Salesforce data if you click a button and want it to – and then you can...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Nov 18, 2025
AI Agents Unlock Solutions We Couldn’t Scale Before
The vast majority of AI use will be for things we don’t even do today. The real impact of AI agents will be that we can affordably solve problems that we couldn’t solve before, lower the cost of needed services...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Get Instant Funding Verdict by Uploading Deck
Wondering if you can get funded ... or not? Wonder no more Upload your deck to SaaStr AI VC and we'll tell you -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/VLRaBqjNa3
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Acquisitions Close Quickly, but Relationships Take Years
If you want to potentially get acquired — start now. It often really, quietly takes years. What do I mean? Well for sure, acquisitions themselves technically often happen very quickly. The acquiring CEO reaches out, they meet up...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Data, Not Algorithms, Fueled the AI Revolution
My biggest takeaways from Fei-Fei Li: 1. Just nine years ago, calling yourself an AI company was considered bad for business. Nobody believed the technology would work back in 2016. By 2017, companies started embracing the term. Today, virtually every company calls...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 17, 2025
AI Startups Should Prioritize Upmarket Strategy over Quick Downmarket Wins
Last week, we brought together more than 325 founders, LPs, and go-to-market leaders at Google NYC HQ for the Stage 2 Capital Summit. It continues to be my favorite day of the year, as I get a front-row seat to...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Seeking Public Index for Customer Acquisition Costs Across Industries
is there a publicly available index for cost of customer acquisition across various types of businesses? this feels like one of those secrets hiding in plain sight…
By Danielle Morrill
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Gamma Raises $68M, Hits $100M ARR, Remains Ultra‑Lean
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here’s how they’re building one of the leanest AI companies in the world👇
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Gamma Scales to $100M ARR with 50‑person AI Team
Gamma just raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation while already doing $100M ARR. Here's how they're building one of the leanest AI companies in the world For 35 years, presentation software barely changed. People kept using legacy tools built in the...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Code Execs Correctly to Safeguard SaaS Metrics
Where should you code your execs on the SaaS P&L? Most teams get this wrong — and it wrecks their metrics. Here’s how to code leaders to the right cost centers and protect CAC, gross margin, and OPEX accuracy. Watch: https://t.co/BFmus5yUp7 #SaaS https://t.co/1ZU2FBx4Be
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Strong SaaS Finance Starts with Clean Data Foundations
I had a CFO coaching session today and spoke with a coaching prospect. The recurring theme? Our finance data foundation. We can have great software in place to do a lot of things for us, but data is the big roadblock. My 4...
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Founders' Tension Ripple: Emotional Contagion Shapes Company Strategy
Most founders underestimate how much emotional contagion they create. A single moment of tension in you can ripple through the company as if it were strategy.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Even Saturated Markets Hide Unmet Customer Needs
Most markets look saturated until you actually talk to customers. Then you realize nobody is truly happy with the current options. There’s always room for something better. Go build it.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Scaleup Success: Key Lessons From Conrad and Halligan
Parker Conrad (Rippling) + Brian Halligan CEO (HubSpot) combined scaleup CEO Lessons. https://t.co/fsC08olygw
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Key Lessons From Parker Conrad on Scaling Teams
Here MY TAKEAWAYS on the my interview with Parker Conrad of Rippling. There's a bunch of nuggets in here between what I learned at HubSpot and Parker learned at Rippling. Full interview in the comments.
By Brian Halligan
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Building Scalable SaaS: Frameworks and AI Integration Insights
Had a great conversation with Anna Anisin on DSS Podcast. We talked about the right ways of building SaaS software, the frameworks I follow to build complex systems and the best practices of adding AI to an existing product.
By Swarnendu De
Social•Nov 17, 2025
PE Avoids Fresh Equity, Hindering Mid‑market Reinvestments
Private equity rarely likes putting fresh equity into existing deals—making reinvestment almost impossible when a mid-market business hits turbulence. Great insights from Matt Blumberg on Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast 👉 https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B https://t.co/zPkgTo9BgC
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 17, 2025
CEOs Split Time: Recruiting, Customers, and Everything Else
Where you'll spend your time as CEO as you scale: 50% on Recruiting 50% on Customers & Prospects and 50% on All the Rest
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 17, 2025
Define Purpose, Own It, Measure Execution for Results
Execution converts ideas into outcomes. Each initiative should have a defined purpose: Performance, Productivity, Incubation, or Transformation. Clear ownership and measurement keep progress visible and on track. https://lnkd.in/gKsrMrPX #Leadership #Management
By Geoffrey Moore