Social•Oct 18, 2025
CFOs Celebrate $500M Funding Surge in Accounting ERP
$500M dollars raised by just 5 players in the Accounting ERP space. Wow. The game is on. Here's the list... - Campfire raises $100M+ - Rillet raises $100M+ - DualEntry raises $100M+ - Light raises $43M - Everest raises $140M Controllers and CFO's should be excited. This can only help us as we close the books faster/better and provide better analysis. So what sets them apart from the incumbents? You can find out on Thursday as I host Campfire founder and CEO John Glasgow. There's still a lot of hype around AI and the Office of the CFO. Let's dispel that on Thursday. Save your seat here: https://lnkd.in/gdkVyUqj Replay will go out. This funding should be celebrated by all CFO's. It proves that accurate accounting numbers are important to every business at every stage. #SaaS #Accounting
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 18, 2025
AI Races Ahead, Leaving Institutions and Users Scrambling
AI is moving faster than institutions, slower than expectations, and sideways to almost everyone’s plans. Enterprises are still debating “AI strategy” while startups ship new agents every week. Researchers are sprinting ahead while regulators write think pieces. And users? They’re experimenting in...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Build Systems First, Hire Later for Efficient Ops
Thinking about hiring before your process works? Wrong order. Sketch the workflow, automate the tedious 80%, document step-by-step. Only add humans where judgment or trust beats code. Systems first, team second. That's how tiny ops outpace big orgs.
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Kamal 2.8 Adds Local Registry, Simplifying Rails Deployments
Kamal 2.8 will finally give us a local registry option for simple deploys. This means you won't need a Docker Hub or GHCR setup just to see your app in production. Will get this snuck into Rails 8.1 before we...
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Small Teams Can Hit $10M ARR with AI Efficiency
You think bootstrapping a SaaS in 2025 is about scale? You got it upside down. It's about doing more with less. 10-person teams can do +$10M ARR. 3-person teams can do +$1M ARR. 1-person teams can do 6 figure ARR. And no, you don't have...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Fleet MDM Adds Arch, Omarchy Support for Mac‑free Migrations
Fleet MDM just added explicit support for Arch and Omarchy. This seems like a great option if your organization is leaving the Mac and needs a Kandji replacement. https://t.co/Fw6bywEzuU https://t.co/ndyq8UzYIv
By David Heinemeier Hansson
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Missed Dreamforce 2025? Watch 6‑minute AI Keynote Highlights
🚀 Missed #Dreamforce 2025? Catch our keynote highlights in just 6 minutes! Experience Agentforce Vibes & Vibe Codey redefining enterprise AI + dev. 🎥 Watch now: https://t.co/Yrs6SKn88f 💙
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 18, 2025
AI‑Powered Vibe Codey Accelerates Salesforce Development
🚀 Vibe Codey is here to turbocharge your Salesforce dev! AI-powered coding, MCP support, & natural language DevOps. Build apps faster, deploy smarter. Check it out: https://t.co/6WFnkDq6GB #Agentforce #DF25 💙 https://t.co/DSmhda2ki2
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 18, 2025
Build Reliable AI Agents Faster with Agentforce Builder
🚀 Introducing the future of agent development! Meet Agentforce Builder + Agent Script 👇 ❌ Complex, siloed, unpredictable agents ✅ Conversational building with Agentforce Builder ✅ Transparent, controllable logic with Agent Script ✅ Reliable AI agents — easier to deploy than ever Build smarter. Ship faster....
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 17, 2025
AI as Junior Pair‑Programmer Mirrors Engineer’s Iterative Loop
We've learned the same things as @maccaw points out in this thread about using AI to generate 100% of the code. The engineers at @CrazyEgg follow a similar process. They use AI like a junior pair-programmer. Fast, tireless, sometimes wrong and always...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Dreamforce Highlights Explosive Growth of Agentforce Platform
Dreamforce was unreal! 🌟 Agentforce City was pure 🔥! In just 1 year: ✨ 1.8M+ convos on https://t.co/BrfR5x8Vvh ✨ 12,500+ customers on Agentforce Huge love to Trailblazers like PepsiCo, Equinox, Heathrow, Williams Sonoma & Pandora! Humans + agents = the future! 🚀 #DF25 💙 https://t.co/haQ5unlRCm
By Marc Benioff
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Domain‑Specific AI Agents Accelerate Enterprise Adoption
Having talked to hundreds of IT leaders over the last year alone, it’s clear we have a capability overhang where the current AI models are already very good at solving many problems that haven’t been adopted yet. The biggest hurdles generally...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Today's 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 17, 2025
Choose the Right Location for Your AI Agents
It's 9:30 AM. Do you know where your agent is? As we enter the era of agentic AI, this is an increasingly important question. ChatGPT launched the consumer use of AI, compressing all of human knowledge into a single model. Now...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Mastering Replit Fluency Enables Apps Built in Mind
I think after 100+ days and with 9 apps vibe coded into production with @Replit used over 500,000 times we're just getting going. 🧠And … I think key to that is that I'm now "Replit Fluent". What does that mean? It's...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 17, 2025
AI Success Lies in Resegmenting, Not Creating New Categories
Most AI products aren’t creating new categories. They’re resegmenting existing ones. Understanding the difference shapes everything about how you build, market, and scale. Resegmentation means taking a job people already understand and making it faster, clearer, or more accessible. Category creation means...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 17, 2025
One Yes Can Transform Everything—Ask More
Every “no” costs you nothing. But one “yes” can change everything. So, why aren't you asking more?
By Dan Martell
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Hyper-Growth Inevitably Triggers Churn, Then Sustainable Second Act
I predict this cycle for a lot of the hyper-growers: 1. Hyper-growth 2. Massive churn crisis 3. Fix churn crisis 4. Growth 5. 2nd Act
By Brian Halligan
Social•Oct 17, 2025
ROSE Metric Reveals Your SaaS Luxury of Time
One of the slides I shared at SaaStock Europe. If you are struggling with profitability or scaling, the ROSE Metric is a key indicator of whether you can build a sustainable tech company. I talk about the "luxury of time" with many...
By Ben Murray
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Founders Lose Half Week to Tasks AI Can Automate
Every founder I mentor is wasting 30–50% of their week on tasks AI could already do. Here’s the AI system I recommend to buy that time back👇
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 17, 2025
From 2009 Investment to 2700‑Attendee ClioCon: Persistence Pays
So awesome to see Jack Newton deliver another incredible ClioCon keynote – this time in front of 2700 attendees! Watching Jack and Clio grow continues to be one of the absolute highlights of my career. Clio was one of Pawel...
By Christoph Janz
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Founders Can Reclaim 30‑50% of Time with AI
Every founder I mentor is wasting 30–50% of their week on tasks AI could already do. Here's the AI system I recommend to buy that time back Most people are still underestimating AI. The founders, marketers, and leaders who win in the...
By Ryan Allis
Social•Oct 17, 2025
SaaStr Reveals Its Core AI Agents Toolkit
One of the top questions we get is, "What AI Agents Does SaaStr use?" Well, I just vibe'd a pretty good summary here: https://t.co/xe35bwMuu6 Check it out https://t.co/0AVITGkZ6J
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Collaboration Turns Agentic AI Into Real Business Impact
When it comes to the potential of agentic AI, the technology is already here. What will define its future is how we apply it to achieve real impact. As our Chief Product Officer, Graham Sheldon, writes in his new article, the...
By Daniel Dines
Social•Oct 17, 2025
First Customer Wins Unlock $1M ARR Journey
First customer is always the hardest. Then you find another one and another one. Then next thing you know you're at $1M ARR. But it all starts with the first.
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Customers' AI Agents Redefine the Marketing Landscape
Sharing a draft illustration of 3 different "domains" of AI agents in marketing to solicit feedback. The 3 different domains: 1. AI agents for marketers, used internally. 2. AI agents for customers externally, but run by marketers internally. 3. AI agents operating on behalf...
By Scott Brinker
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Leader in Conversational Automation Drives Minutes‑to‑Meetings
SO proud to be named a Leader in Forrester's Wave for Conversational Automation Solutions for B2B. To me, it reflects how our customers are turning signals into meetings in minutes — and we're just getting started. I'll share a sneak...
By Latane Conant
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Chrome Adds --Focus Flag, Earns $5k Bounty
I just happily sent the $5k bounty to Hjanuschka for landing a new feature in Chrome that was born in the linked discussion thread: Chrome now gets --focus cli parameter which allows you to open a website / webapp from...
By Tobi Lutke
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Blurred Dashboard Boosts Conversions by 8% via Curiosity Gap
PromoTix saw an 8% increase in conversions by leveraging the "Promised Land" effect. The win didn't come from blind faith in best practices. Will Royall, the founder, has a simple rule: test everything. Even when something's proven to work, he wants to see...
By Wes Bush
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Stand Out: Craft a Unique Headline in a Saturated Market
Email marketing/marketing automation is one of the most competitive categories of all time. You'd think the players there are very focused on differentiation. You'd be wrong. Most are explaining themselves as if they're the only one doing what they're doing. Send newsletters. Track...
By Peep Laja
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Automate First, Team Size Doesn't Drive Growth
When I founded FeedHive, I hired a 5-man team at $300 MRR. Cause I thought... that's what you do. 3 months later... $50,000 poorer... I had to get rid of them all. Best (most expensive) lesson I've ever learned. You don't need a big team to...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Small SaaS Apps Can Yield Real Exits
Tom Ulman (@TomUlman) acquired two small SaaS tools (Text Run and Waitlist Email) that already had users, traffic, and potential. Then he did what great founders do best: executed. > Focused on paying users > Simplified the product > Improved support > Let SEO and...
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Turn Repeating Tasks Into SaaS Assets with Automation
Founders keep asking: how do you manage it all without burning out? Simple: map every recurring task, automate the top grind with n8n or Lindy, then refactor the rest into assets you can reuse or sell. Almost everything can become a building...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Considering a Cross‑Platform Screen Studio Clone for FounderStack
Real question - now that Screen Studio moved to subscriptions, should I package this up and include it in FounderStack so you can get it on an LTD? Would be cross-platform, macOS, Windows, Linux and would have many of the same...
By Simon Høiberg
Social•Oct 17, 2025
Outcome‑Based Pricing Unlikely to Go Mainstream
I was really excited about the outcome based pricing model à la what Sierra, Fin, etc are doing, but the more I look into it, the more I think it won’t become the norm. Too hard to apply in...
By Brian Halligan
Social•Oct 17, 2025
AI Agents Now Create Polished PowerPoints From Raw Data
As AI agents get better at computer and tool use, or writing code on the fly for a task, we're going to be able to solve much broader domains of knowledge work. Here's an example of Box AI with the...
By Aaron Levie
Social•Oct 16, 2025
AI Products Mostly Re‑segment Existing Markets, Not Create New Ones
Most AI products are not creating new categories as much as they are resegmenting existing ones. The distinction is critical for a team to understand. These lessons have been learned over and over again by many of us.
By Hiten Shah
Social•Oct 16, 2025
CEOs Ditch CMOs for Specialized Revenue‑Focused Marketing VPs
So there's a growing trend in GTM leadership I'm seeing recently. It's not one I necessarily agree with, but I get it. It's ... No CMO. What do I mean? Not no marketing or no leadership. But...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 16, 2025
From Pulling Product to Being Pulled by It
At the start, you pull the product along. At the end, the product pulls you. This is the way.
By Jason Fried
Social•Oct 16, 2025
AI Automation Startup Achieves 326% YoY Growth
Solid AI automation startup listed on @acquiredotcom. Mind blowing 326% YoY growth! 🤯 > $2.9M TTM revenue > $961K TTM profit > 5000+ customers > Inc. 5000 ranked > $10M prior valuation Check it out here: https://t.co/YNOfwS36HJ https://t.co/6mEIjy6Wf5
By Andrew Gazdecki
Social•Oct 16, 2025
AI‑Driven Design Is the New Startup Moat
Here's my conversation with the one and only Dylan Field, CEO and co-founder of Figma We discuss: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups What actually happened with the Adobe deal, and how he kept...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Oct 16, 2025
Five Hidden GTM Gaps Stalling Your Scale
If you’re not scaling, it’s not your market. It's not your product either. It’s these 5 overlooked GTM gaps. Most founders blame the market when growth stalls but the truth is more brutal: the real killers are five Go-To-Market gaps I see...
By TK Kader
Social•Oct 16, 2025
Your Biggest Customer Is Your Biggest Vulnerability
While many think having a "largest customer" is an asset, it's actually a company's biggest weakness. If you can feel a single customer leave, you're in a delicate spot. If you have a customer you can't afford to lose, you're...
By Jason Fried
Social•Oct 16, 2025
AI Becomes New Mass Media, Replacing Traditional Web Browsing
I asked Claude this morning about the most important news in tech. A few follow-up questions about Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Samsung’s XR headset, & TSMC earnings later, I popped over to ChatGPT Pulse. It suggested some updates about the Fed’s rates...
By Tomasz Tunguz
Social•Oct 16, 2025
Enterprise Adoption Drives Lovable’s Rapid Revenue Growth
Eventually ... everyone goes a bit enterprise Eventually ... everyone adds a sales team
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Oct 16, 2025
Unlock Existing ChatGPT Auth, Not New Sign‑In Layer
Huge if true. Wrote a bunch about the Sign in with ChatGPT opportunity back in April. “Today, there’s no secure way to link a ChatGPT account to another tool. No OAuth. No scoped tokens. No way to persist context responsibly. What’s needed...
By Hiten Shah