Social•Nov 1, 2025
AI Slows SaaS, but Adds Massive Functionality
SaaS apps are much, much slower since AI It's OK because they do much, much more But not something I would have expected 24+ months ago
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Cloud‑migrated DuckDB Slashes Podcast Processing Costs
I sleep better knowing my agents work through the night. Less work for me in the morning. My podcast processor transcribes & analyzes conversations. I started on my laptop, needed a little database to collect podcast data & metadata, & booted...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples at Week’s Close
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Weekly Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/479woZt0Ew
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AI Agents Will Shrink Software Seat Counts
AI is coming for your seats. And it doesn't even mean to. What do I mean? We've gone from 0 to 12 AI Agents at little team SaaStr this year, and as part of that ... we don't need...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Founders Quickly Become the Bottleneck, Not the Visionary
I have a long-running list of these surprises for first-time Founders and CEOs. Here are a few that weren’t on Brian’s list. 1. Your calendar becomes everyone else’s calendar. Every gap gets filled. 2. The hardest conversations are never on the calendar....
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Completed 25 Tasks Using Unstoppable Flow This Week
Slightly lighter this week. Knocked 25 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow. Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn36Ab
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Segmented Margins Turn P&L Into CFO Superpower
Margins by Revenue Stream Is Your CFO Superpower If you offer 2 or more revenue types, you must construct your P&L in the proper format. I can't tell you how many times I've corrected the gross profit and margins by revenue stream...
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 31, 2025
New AppSumo Deal Page Boosts Sales 38%
Testing NEW deal pages for AppSumo. One is up 38%... https://t.co/l7ZXNKwXkt
By Noah Kagan
Social•Oct 31, 2025
ChatGPT's Rapid Rise Could Rival Google by 2030
ChatGPT hit 1B+ daily searches 9 years faster than Google. At this pace, it could match Google by 2030. Here's how the future of search is changing Google still dominates with about 14 billion daily searches. ChatGPT handles around 2.5 billion prompts...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Must‑listen Episode for Aspiring SaaS Founders
This is a great episode. All aspiring SaaS founders should listen 👇
By Rob Walling
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Demystify VC Funding with SaaStr AI VC
🤷♀️Getting funded shouldn't be a mystery 🔮Knowing the odds VCs will say Yes shouldn't be opaque 🤝 Meeting investors shouldn't require connections We're here to help. SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ https://t.co/XbFWOuetFF
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Cold Email Drives 32% of $6.5M ARR Revenue
32% of RB2B's $6.5M ARR comes from one channel. (And no, it's NOT my Linkedin) It's COLD EMAIL. But when I ask most founders about cold email... They say it's dead. So I just recorded a video breaking down... - Why most cold email fails - The...
By Adam Robinson
Social•Oct 31, 2025
IPO Valuations Dwarf Typical ARR Multiples
Times are good But Navan IPO’ing at ~$5B at ~$800M ARR run rate And JAMF selling for ~$2B at 3x ARR Well, they do make me wonder about some VC rounds these days
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Billion‑Dollar Success Requires SaaS, Not Services
“If you want to be a billion-dollar company, you’ll never get there with services.” 💡 Nathan Gwilliam, CEO of PodUp, joins The SaaS CFO Podcast to talk SaaS vs. services, scaling strategy, and valuation growth. 🎧 Watch: https://t.co/YLrLMsWUCR #SaaS https://t.co/ny8PqM1viO
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Ask if Users Will Abandon ChatGPT Before Building AI Product
Before you build your AI product, ask one question: would anyone switch from ChatGPT for this? https://t.co/5q8pqdKadg
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 31, 2025
High‑growth Software Commands 26× Valuation Multiples
This week on Clouded Judgement: Cloud Giants Report Q3 - Median software multiple: 5.1x - High Growth software median: 26.3x - Mid Growth software median: 7.5x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.1% https://lnkd.in/gWd7C-Z9
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Cloud Giants’ Q3 Software Multiples Surge with Growth
This week on Clouded Judgement: Cloud Giants Report Q3 - Median software multiple: 5.1x - High Growth software median: 26.3x - Mid Growth software median: 7.5x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.1% Article in next post 👇 https://t.co/WbeIhF3sRx
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Platforms Dominate, yet Your Website Still Matters
We've entered a world in which platforms dominate influence... not websites. But does that mean your website is irrelevant? Or less important than they once were? 樂樂樂
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Hire Smarter, Leverage AI, Protect SaaS Margins
This week's masterminds zeroed in on what it really takes to run a lean, profitable SaaS...from hiring smarter to mastering outbound, refining pricing and dodging legal curveballs. We covered the messy middle of scaling: when to bring in a product manager,...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AlertMouse: Better Monitoring, Filtering, and Insights Than Google Alerts
What an absolutely lovely article to read today: https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/alertmouse-is-a-google-alerts-alternative-with-better-monitoring-filtering-and-insights/ Nothing better than finding out your friends appreciate the things you make ❤️❤️❤️
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Delta Sharing Simplifies Secure Cross‑organization Data Exchange
If you want to share data between organizations, BUs, then you gotta use Delta Sharing! If that raises questions, they're probably answered by these 10 FAQ: 1. What is Delta Sharing? 2. What makes Delta Sharing different? 3. Does Delta Sharing work with...
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Oct 31, 2025
AI Boosts Coding, but Design Decisions Become New Bottleneck
Another example of the unexpected changes of work due to AI agents is that we will start to see new bottlenecks emerge that we didn’t predict before. In a world where AI agents make engineers 2-3X more productive, the new...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Chat‑based AI Prototyping Finally Matches Your Product’s Look
Huge congrats to @alloy_app for growing 10x in less than 30 days!! -> https://t.co/MGKugp77a2 Alloy is AI prototyping for PMs that actually looks like your product. 1⃣Capture your app in one click 2⃣Chat to build features in minutes 3⃣Share with team/customers. Already in...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 31, 2025
Azure’s Growth Outpaces AWS and Google Cloud
Cloud Giants Update: AWS (Amazon): $132B run rate growing 20% YoY (last Q grew 17%) Azure (Microsoft): ~$93B run rate (estimate) growing 39% YoY (last Q grew 39%) Google Cloud (includes GSuite): $61B run rate growing 34% YoY (last Q grew 32%, neither...
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 30, 2025
A Little Memory Delivers Most AI Performance Gains
"Memory" is one of the top topics in AI today. Memory makes almost all our AI apps run better. But how much memory ... do you need? I honestly don't know, but my learnings so far: - "Digital Jason"...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Buy Extra Codex Credits Beyond Subscription Limits
If you want to use more Codex after you hit your subscription limits, you can now buy credits as needed. This is something we expect to do for compute-intensive features; it will let us keep subscription prices low for most users...
By Sam Altman
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Get 20% Off Superhuman or Grammarly with Superpower
Wow — if you're subscribed to @Superhuman or Grammarly, email @superpower and they'll give you 20% off! 💜 Nicely done @maxmarchione and team 😄👏
By Rahul Vohra
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Steady SaaS: $1.9M Revenue, 30% Growth, 1% Churn
This one’s as steady as SaaS gets. Live on @acquiredotcom: Salesforce native SaaS powering human services agencies with automated case tracking and compliance infra. > $1.9M TTM revenue > $467K TTM profit > 30% YoY growth > 1% churn Full listing: https://t.co/qcO6uCJvdC https://t.co/PvFgsCdfGH
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Upcoming Community Session on Agentic FP&A & SaaS Forecasting
Some great stuff coming up in our community. Agentic FP&A and Forecasting Saas Revenue. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/gD2avXCn
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Promptable Signals Transform Go‑to‑Market with 6sense
Go-to-market leaders — our Signalverse is about to blow up. You already know 6sense for intent, predictive, and technographic data… but soon, anything you can prompt will be at your fingertips. ✓ Want to find companies expanding product lines?...
By Latane Conant
Social•Oct 30, 2025
AI Will Close Major Deals Without Sales Executives by 2026
There is going to be a rude awakening for the sales profession in 2026. Everyone is going to be surprised how many fairly big deals close without a sales exec. This isn’t to say they will close without a human involved. ...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Growth Requires Feedback Loops, Not Just More
More only works if you have feedback loops to get better. More for the sake of more doesn't move the needle.
By Alex Hormozi
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Scaling SaaS: $1‑3M Is the Critical Growth
Only 1 in 10 SaaS companies ever make it to $10M ARR. And for the ones that do, it takes an average of 5-7 years from when they first start generating revenue. This comes from Kyle Poyar's analysis of over 6,525 SaaS...
By Wes Bush
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Don't Let Bots Crash Your Human Meetings
I’m actually very pro meeting recording and ai summarization. But I’m not ok with bots joining as fake humans accomplish this. It’s a meeting between you and me. Not you and me and some startup’s viral growth strategy. Granola is...
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Launch Partnerships When Network Effects Mature for Scale
Partnerships and community programs launched too early rarely hit the scale you want. Not because they're bad strategies — but because the network effects haven't had time to mature yet. Timing matters.
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Bootstrapping SaaS Success: LTV/CAC Mastery with PodUp
New episode with PodUp founder Nathan Gwilliam! 🎙️ Bootstrapping, service-enabled SaaS, and LTV/CAC mastery. A must-watch for SaaS builders 👇 https://t.co/YLrLMsWUCR 🚀 #SaaS #PodUp https://t.co/8MRkDXh6e5
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Growth Takes Time; Success Isn't Only Million‑Dollar ARR
Same here. Took 2.5 years to reach $1M ARR (for all my products combined). And then it plateaued for almost 2 years until I launched FounderStack. Many small businesses never even go beyond 6 figures, and they're still doing better than most! We...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 30, 2025
Product Strategy: Disciplined Building Driven by Customer Context
Building because you can is easy. Building because you should takes discipline. That discipline is called product strategy and it runs on customer context.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 30, 2025
SaaStr AI VC: Massive Startup Data & VC Connections
SaaStr AI VC. Try it free -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OqGr 🧮548,709 start-up valuations 🖥️1,657+ VC pitch decks graded 🧖♀️1,200+ active founders now 🫂503 VC connections made It's pretty darn cool https://t.co/nXGlRNz6mC
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
AlertMouse Beats Google Alerts, Generates Real Revenue
Another day, another SHINING example of why https://alertmouse.com gets that cheddar, while Google Alerts is
By Rand Fishkin
Social•Oct 30, 2025
SaaStr Tops Brand Mentions, Beats HubSpot and TechCrunch
Insights from @Amplitude_HQ AI Visibility 🚀 @saastr is the #1 most-mentioned brand - ahead of @hubspot and @TechCrunch!! https://t.co/g6PJChA7Ll https://t.co/5bV9t5BPky
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 29, 2025
AI BDR Books Meetings, Replaces Need for Hires
Our AI BDR booked 7 meetings on its own with our sales team last week. I mean you could argue a human could do a better job. Maybe. But the real thing is, you don't even have to hire than human...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 29, 2025
Azure Hits $93B Run Rate, 39% Growth, Lags Microsoft
Azure at a ~$93B run rate growing 39% constant currency Quarterly YoY growth trends below $MSFT https://t.co/YS2msooKX0
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 29, 2025
Google Cloud Hits $61B Run Rate, up 34% YoY
Google Cloud at a ~$61B run rate growing 34% (not constant currency). Google cloud includes GCP and GSuite Quarterly YoY growth trends in below chart $GOOGL https://t.co/WBQXU7nwmh
By Jamin Ball