Jen Abel's most important advice for closing tier-1 logos: 1. Make sure the founder is involved. 2. Sell the vision—don't sell to a problem. Help them see: you are here today, here's where we can take you.
.@jjen_abel's top advice for closing tier-1 logos: 1. Make sure the founder is involved 2. Sell the vision. Don't sell to a problem. https://t.co/NzHBxk9IXP
Shopify teams are using AI to announce their internal tools is one of the most delightful side effects of the AI age. This one is too fun not to share https://t.co/r2LovZ5DIx

Some are saying “AI killed SaaS.” Maybe the truth is closer to (paraphrasing Bezos): “SaaS’ margins are AI’s opportunity.” And the opportunity may be to embrace the new business model of lower margins and larger markets. Let me explain. Software companies...
This is one of the fastest growing AI product on Databricks, document (PDF etc) parsing at significantly higher quality and lower cost than elsewhere! All part of Agent Bricks! Try it out!

Founders sharing how they made it to $1M ARR: https://t.co/xMdmBWZpQ0

How we do legal now with @jalonso510 So much better for routine stuff https://t.co/AzRWGlXtpG
If in their first 14 days, or at least first 30 days:, your new CRO / VP of Sales hasn’t: #1. Brought on at least 1 new great sales rep And #2. Fired 1-2 of the worst reps, They are just way, way,...
How AI Supports Frontline Workers in Logistics @Samsara https://t.co/fIQF1SeSeM
Yesterday the team at Replit invited me in to present on what i've learned 125 days into vibe coding 10+ apps into production. That have been used over 750,000 times. I learned a lot summarizing my learnings, but there was one big...
Ye olde CEO playbook I used in building @HubSpot is broken. From Jensen Huang’s 60 direct reports to the way Elon runs his empire to Brian Chesky’s founder mode – it's a reboot. This new playbook is something I’m very curious...
If you've ever felt like you're running on the content treadmill — publishing nonstop but seeing "meh results" — this one's for you. I'm joining Dreamdata for a live chat about quality over quantity in B2B content. We'll talk about how...

I love crazy ideas like this. Live on @acquiredotcom: Fast, realistic online receipt generator. Built for personal or entertainment use, grew to $141K profit, solo-run, 95% margins. > $142K TTM revenue > $141K TTM profit > 33% MoM growth Full listing: https://t.co/1Xnal0Qk2L https://t.co/hQw31Th9SE

Huge congrats to @jack_newton and the entire @goclio team on the closing of the vLex acquisition and the $850 million financing! A truly industry-transforming move, and another extraordinary chapter in an already legendary journey. But Clio is not only...
The Dirty Secrets Behind SaaS Gross Margins Can you really trust the GP% on that P&L? Here are 7 ways to shuffle expenses to mislead readers of your P&L. I spend a lot of time with founders and accounting teams on...
🌎 Remote-first, no office — but strong culture. Albert Gozzi, CEO of Aleph, joins The SaaS CFO Podcast to share how his team stays connected with in-person retreats (next stop: Cartagena 🇨🇴). 🎧 https://t.co/m2e1J4iN7U #SaaS #RemoteWork https://t.co/3fNRYuXhur

Great piece by @ByrneHobart on how legacy products are behaving like a union. This explains soo much of what I see the legacy incumbents doing, fighting product battles with lawyers and rate limits, vs product. article https://t.co/60C6EUFTxr https://t.co/cjy6Tc1v2P
You can't scale if you can't recruit First, learn to love it Then, learn to staff it
Great new SaaS Benchmarks report from High Alpha. But I have questions on this table of the effectiveness of go-to-market channels. What do these percentages represent? 1. The number of respondents in the study using that channel? 2. The number of respondents in the...
Woo hoo! Launching my latest project, the Company Research agent. Was going to launch it at 1am last night, but decided there was no reason to tempt the fates. It's an agent that lets you...umm...easily do company research. I built it...
You can feel like you have product-market fit, but your Net Revenue Retention will tell you the truth. I talk to founders all the time who are convinced they've nailed PMF because they have some paying customers and good feedback,...
Right now, we're all A/B testing, rolling out promos, and optimizing load times - all just to move the needle a FEW points for BFCM. But did you know, closing accessibility gaps can drive bigger lifts than all those combined? I...
I've watched dozens of SaaS companies kill their freemium motion in the past year. They wonder why conversion rates are stuck at 2% and users ghost them after signup. Our ProductLed Implementer Anastasia Kudrow recently helped a client fix this exact...
TOFU. MOFU. BOFU. When I learned these three terms as a Founder,... It changed my view of GTM.
4 tools. That's literally all you need. You can run a 7-figure SaaS business, solo. Here's the stack I use for 90% of my business ops. 1️⃣ Cursor - Vibe Coding. AI can now do 90% of your product development. 2️⃣ FeedHive - Vibe Marketing. Creates content,...
B2B SaaS Growth Program - On-Demand Edition Scaling B2B SaaS is hard...but it doesn't have to be guesswork. Over the last 23 years, I've built and scaled B2B SaaS companies, including iContact to $50M ARR and a $169M exit and...
Tomorrow I'm speaking twice (in the space of just 90 mins ) at Web Summit. Talk 1: Becoming an AI Company, 10:35am, Stage 5. (this is largely about transitioning a business from one world to the next, if you're a...
This Week in SaaS — Nov 4–10, 2025 AI-powered SaaS continues to dominate funding headlines. From $500M rounds in checkout-free parking to NVIDIA's bets on AI simulation, this week's action shows investors still have deep conviction in applied AI and enterprise...
💡 Micro SaaS Idea: - Clone Supabase repo - Pull out the tables/queries UI - Turn it into a small web app Sell on a lifetime deal.

Had ton of fun at @Replit HQ tonight all-hands, sharing 10 apps we’ve vibe coded into production in just 125 days! Thanks to @kodylow @amasad + everyone for having us!! https://t.co/Ya2Srv5Apf
Agentforce 360 just became teacher’s pet at @pearson 🍎 https://t.co/XzbtkbN8Nl
So there’s a lot of angst on social media (esp LinkedIn) about CROs and VPs of Sales getting fired. But let give tell you a tip: maybe go SMB. What do I mean? I see so many of the top sales...
AI B2B companies do need sales teams. Almost all of them. The question is just … how large of a sales team? It's a question no one fully questioned until recently. But now founders & CEOs are asking: - is some of the...

Big fan of AI plays like this. Vertical AI SaaS built for travel customer experience. > $345k TTM revenue > $265k TTM profit > 300% YoY growth High-margin + Lean ops Check out listing @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/W8PNmLJqTD https://t.co/xuUCVn0BpK
I'm still glowing with gratitude after an incredible week in London for the Turing × SYSTM Growth Summit. I met so many lovely people — finally connected with friends I'd only known online, made new ones altogether, ate incredible food, and...
Slack didn’t kill email. It made it much less relevant and useful for internal company collaboration.

Are you spending the right amount to grow ARR? Learn how to align ARR growth with sales & marketing spend using two key metrics: 👉 OPEX profile 👉 Cost of ARR Watch here: https://t.co/UFx233fpYg #SaaSMetrics #SaaSFinance https://t.co/pu2gGLs6aW
How do you go from $0-$10m ARR in under 18 months when you AREN'T Lovable, Cursor, or Replit? I can't say that I know... I only got to $6m ARR in 18 months... But Alan D'Souza founder of Zapmail.ai knows....
Three 22-year-olds just beat Mark Zuckerberg's record as the youngest self-made billionaires. Here's how the co-founders of Mercor did it In 2023, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha built a simple recruiting tool. It helped US startups hire engineers from...
Anyone thinking about CLI-first SaaS (headless) and want to chat?
For years @patrickc + @collision told me "You should add @link, it'll increase your conversion rate" I always figured Link was only useful for consumer-y impulse buys, not Serious Business Stuff™️ But...TL;DR: we added @link and it increased our conversion rate. Lesson...
The latest McKinsey State of AI 2025 report just dropped and I'll cautiously say it's pretty good. (Cautiously, because I'm a bit leery of reports from big management consulting companies -- they're often very mega-enterprise focused and I'm a startup/SMB...
What tech is used in your back office? 烙 I think we'll see big change in several categories. The 7th Annual SaaS Tech Stack Survey is here! If you work in software, SaaS, or AI and know your back office tech stack,...
Just a few weeks before this video, which was shot 12 years ago, I was $25K in debt because of my past failed startup. It was called "Tell It In 10", and it went absolutely nowhere. Most nights I'd stare at...
Today, legal software @goclio announces a round at $5B and presentation software @GammaApp at $2.5B valuations What do they have in common? Both were around well before the AI Era. Clio in 2008, Gamma in 2020. Being “AI Native” is critical to...
My former arch rival is my guest this week. Dun dun dunnnnnnnn. No just kidding. Trying to get a thirsty hook. That was 7-8 years ago and so much has happened since then. One of the best parts about running Exit Five...