Social•Oct 25, 2025
Knowing Everything Makes You the Best CEO
For a long while, you probably aren't a great CEO But you know the customers The software The feature gaps The roadmap The competition How to sell it How to market it How to build it So maybe as flawed as you are You are still the best CEO
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 25, 2025
SQL-Powered OCR with LLMs: Beware Auto‑corrections
We never marketed this widely, yet it's growing very fast. Just using our data warehouse and call SELECT ai_parse_document(content) and get OCR working on your document corpus (PDF, docx, etc). This is harder than one might imagine with LLMs. For...
By Ali Ghodsi
Social•Oct 25, 2025
Only One of 16 Core AI Agents Is Legacy
New!! “Everything’s In Play in the Age of AI: Why Only 1 of Our 16 Core AI Agents Comes From a Legacy Vendor” https://t.co/ZWUROQEB9H
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Current Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 24, 2025
1500+ Pitch Decks Uploaded, Get Real-Time VC Feedback
Woo-hoo!! Crossed 1,500 VC Pitch Decks uploaded to SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ Get real time feedback on your deck, benchmarking against 1000s of rounds, and optional intros to the best VCs https://t.co/BIC0fmziG2
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Fizzy Beta Invites Launch Next Week After Rebrand
For all those waiting on a Fizzy beta invite, a couple things: 1. The initial batch should begin next week. We had our all-company retreat this week and decided to hold off on invites until everyone was back at work. 2. We’re...
By Jason Fried
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Bootstrapped AI SaaS Duo Generates $200K Profit
What’s better than one B2B SaaS? Two B2B SaaS. Two profitable AI SaaS duo for content creation + SEO automation. > $252K TTM revenue > $200K TTM profit > 20% YoY growth > 5K+ customers Bootstrapped + Lean Listed on @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/hVgmr7nPE3 https://t.co/gTiI2EJmqJ
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Results, Not Connections, Secure VC Funding Instantly
You don't have to know the 'right people' anymore to get funded If you've got the results -- we'll tell you And introduce you to top VCs. In minutes. SaaStr AI VC. Sign up here -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/4KllqrnwZp
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Empowers B2B Buyers, Redefining Marketing's Funnel Role
AI is changing the balance of power in B2B. "Get on the phone with us and we'll tell you pricing." No more. "Get on the phone and we'll show you our product." No more. Today's buyers now self-educate, run deep...
By Dave Gerhardt
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Productivity Gains Require Upfront Workflow Redesign
There is a wide gulf between those getting major productivity gains from AI agents and those that don’t. The difference comes down to being willing to do the work up front to make the agent effective by giving them the...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Guest Speakers Aren’t Growth Hacks—Build a Demand Strategy
If you’re relying on your guest speaker to drive signups, it’s because you don’t have a demand strategy. Guest speakers aren’t your growth hack. They’re your marketing partners.
By Amanda Natividad
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Stay Close to Customers: Let Market Feedback Guide
Always be close to your customers. Don't build a product nobody wants. Too many startups fail from this. The market has the feedback you need to hear.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI‑Powered Agentforce Transforms IT Support via Slack
Today, with the launch of Agentforce IT Service, Salesforce is helping customers transform IT support with an agent-first, conversational IT suite that delivers instant, AI-powered resolutions directly in Slack. For decades, IT teams and employees have faced frustrating productivity drains from...
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Software Valuation Multiples Skyrocket with Growth Rate
This week on Clouded Judgement: Long Live Benchmarks! - Median software multiple: 5.2x - High Growth software median: 26.8x - Mid Growth software median: 7.7x - Low Growth software median: 4.0x - 10Y: 4.0% https://lnkd.in/gmxVt3u6
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 24, 2025
ClickHouse Powers Netflix's 5PB Daily, Scaling for AI Era
ClickHouse is handling 5PB PER DAY, 10M+ events per second for Netflix...Having a database that can scale like this while staying performant will become more important than ever as data explodes in the age of AI
By Jamin Ball
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Exercise.com Joins Daxko in Strategic Acquisition
Congrats to Joel Ohman, Alicia Howson, John Gadbois, Joel VanderPol, and the team at Exercise.com for their recent acquisition by Daxko. Best of luck as you kick off the next stage in your journey. Glad we could help. Check out the press...
By Michael Lyon
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Get Real-Time Site Mockups Instantly with Alloy
Tired of waiting days (or longer) to get mocks and changes back to your website? That are never really what you want? Just use @alloy_app and tell it whatever changes you want to your site "Change to: SaaStr + Salesforce Agentic...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Becomes Standard, Not Competitive Edge, in SaaS
AI won’t be a differentiator soon — it’ll just be expected. Loved this conversation with Ali Hussain from Tabs on the next era of revenue automation. Episode 215 is live! 👇 ▶️ https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS #AI https://t.co/GZ7BSG8hiS
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Why Every Company Needs a Head of Customer
Head of Customer. who has that title? I don't see it and we should have it. who buys our stuff? Customers. who are we building our company for? Customers. instead, we have: Head of Marketing Head of Product Head of Sales Head of Finance Head of everything except Customer that's...
By Anna Furmanov
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Software's Siren Song Masks Its Hard Reality
the siren song of software is real "it'll be so much easier than services!" "it's way more scalable!" "we can finally grow without adding headcount!" then they try it and realize: software is one of the hardest businesses to build the grass isn't always...
By Asia Orangio
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Founders Must Master Sales to Scale Successfully
Every founder is in sales. If you can’t sell it, you can’t scale it. Learn sales if you want to win.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 24, 2025
Automate AI News Posts with Brand‑Aligned Voice
AgentKit + FeedHive MCP 🤯 Being first to the conversation after the breaking news hit gives you a HUGE advantage on social media. - It creates authority - It creates trust in your brand - It drives business But keeping up with the constant stream...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 24, 2025
AI Democratizes Skills, Sparking a Specialization Showdown
One big effect of AI agents is that they take previously scarce resources and skills and make them abundant and available to everyone. As a consequence, you can “self-serve” many more of the hard problems that you used to have to...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI Agents Revolutionize Corporate Knowledge with Multi‑Source Reasoning
AI Agents will completely transform how we interact with corporate knowledge by applying reasoning across multiple data sources. Here's an example of ChatGPT's new knowledge feature to pull information from Box and Gmail to combine it an answer a question....
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 23, 2025
AI-Powered Pitch Analysis Reveals Funding Odds and VC Connections
Don't go into that next VC pitch blind SaaStr AI VC will tell you -> https://t.co/XzJ5d0OYvZ 1⃣ How strong your pitch is 2⃣ Odds you get funded 3⃣ Exactly where to improve And ... introduce you to up to 800 VCs! https://t.co/O5f4MNuPgB
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Stop the Leaky Bucket: Retain Customers, Not Just Acquire
SaaS businesses are incredible. Except when you’ve got a leaky bucket. When do you have a leaky bucket? It’s when you put in all your effort to acquire new users and customers. But they leave you months later.
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Smart Money Doubles Down on Winners, Not New Startups
We're back! @HarryStebbings @rodriscoll + me: 🧵 1⃣The Great VC Shuffle: Benchmark's big hire 2⃣Why billion-dollar ARR companies that are "still early" 3⃣Why the smartest money might be doubling down on winners instead of hunting for the next big...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 23, 2025
E‑commerce Leads Accessibility Lawsuits; Fixing Boosts Conversions
Ecom is the top target for accessibility lawsuits. And it's not even close. 77% of web accessibility lawsuits last year were against ecom sites. Because most of the internet's accessibility issues happen right when someone wants to buy. But the risks go way beyond...
By Ari Murray
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Follow Up Leads in 5 Minutes, Convert 21×
Fun fact for my fellow marketers: Inbound leads followed up in under 5 minutes are 21x more likely to convert. Twenty-one times! 勞 But here's the real question — how many of us are actually following up that fast? Not...
By Latane Conant
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Visible, Honest Leadership Accelerates Startup Growth
What I see CEOs at struggling start-ups do: - Go dark - Hide - Lash out - Tweet about lots of things non-work - Invest time on tiny expenses - Argue internally What should do: - Be Present - Be Honest - Be the Rock - Be Realistic/Optimistic You just plain grow...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Visibility Beats Secrecy: Fill Your Room to Sell
Being the best-kept secret is not a winning strategy for your business. You can’t sell to an empty room.
By Dan Martell
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Zero‑Friction Product Experience Doubles ARR in One Year
Tally just doubled their ARR from $2M to $4M in less than a year. I interviewed their founder Marie Martens back in February when they were at ~$2M ARR. Their new article breaks down the entire journey, but one section (screenshot below)...
By Wes Bush
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Adobe Threatens House Lien over Subscription Access
What's next, Adobe? Asking for a lien on my house to "protect against losing access to my Adobe plan"? https://t.co/ciqEYa3qqP
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Avoid Premature Serviceification: Don’t Distribute Your Computing
"The problem with prematurely turning your application into a range of services is chiefly that it violates the #1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!" https://t.co/mYbAKIRvCf
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Monoliths Outshine Microservices for Most Web Apps
The majestic monolith remains undefeated for the vast majority of web apps. Replacing method calls with network calls makes everything harder, slower, and more brittle. It should be the absolute last resort. https://t.co/ZuyGrwrM0Q
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Crossing $10M ARR Triggers Churn‑Driven Growth Crisis
Having worked with a number of SaaS CEOs at the $10M+ ARR level, I've started to notice some patterns about some weird things that start happening at this level: Bucket A: everything is great. they don't need my help. keep cranking. Bucket...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Free, Unified Dashboard: Introducing Crazy Egg Web Analytics
We just launched Crazy Egg Web Analytics. Clarity in one dashboard. Free forever. https://t.co/SKfnnQnTtF
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Three-Step AI-Driven Workflow Revolutionizes Product Development
Product development has completely changed for us. Three steps. One seamless flow. Step 1: Lovable. Sketch. Prototype. MVP. Ideas take shape fast - design to build, all in one place. Step 2: GitHub + Copilot. Delegate repeat work. Track issues, review PRs. No manual coding - just smart...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Brand Marketing Wins B2B Deals Before Sales Calls
Something people don't realize about B2B buying: Deals are being won and lost before sales calls even happen. Dentsu's massive B2B buyer study - over 14,000 interviews - reveals a shift that's rewriting the rules of how enterprise software gets purchased....
By Peep Laja
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Revenue Automation and AI Transform CFO Tech Stacks
Just dropped a new episode of The SaaS CFO Podcast with Ali Hussain, CEO & Co-founder of Tabs! 🚀 We dug into the rise of Revenue Automation, AI in finance ops, and what’s next for CFO tech stacks. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/DnEm2UuQMc #SaaS...
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Free Web Analytics Simplifies Understanding Your Site
It’s been almost two months since I became CEO of Crazy Egg. Last month we shipped Free Website Surveys. Tonight we’re shipping Free Web Analytics. And I can’t wait to show you what we’re shipping next month. We’re moving fast, but with purpose. Everything...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 23, 2025
Identifying Future Buyers of SaaS Companies
New!! "Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies?" https://t.co/m1tppdUsFM
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 22, 2025
Self‑Driving SaaS: The Future SaaS Junkies Anticipated
“Self-driving SaaS” @karrisaarinen has put into words what some of us SaaS junkies have been ranting to each other about privately.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 22, 2025
AI Will Collapse Product Boundaries Into Unified Customer Agent
AI is making everything look the same. Everything is trending towards a big text box asking "What do you want to do?" It won't be obvious how to respect our made-up product boundaries for users. For example why is "Show...
By Des Traynor
Social•Oct 22, 2025
SaaS Growth Depends More on Reducing Churn than Acquisition
No matter how great you are at acquiring new customers… If you keep losing customers due to churn… You’ll never reach significant amounts of revenue. SaaS businesses only work if you have churn under control. Here’s the big question…
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 22, 2025
AI Video Creator: Profitable, Ready for Acquisition
AI + video = huge market. This tool on @acquiredotcom helps creators generate and schedule short-form videos automatically. You can spin up YouTube Shorts, TikToks, and AI-style clips (even Pixar-like animations). Zero editing skills needed. > $107K TTM revenue > $79K profit > 100+ customers >...
By Andrew Gazdecki