Master AI Transformation and Agent Building at Web Summit
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 C-level wondering if you've adapted enough, this is for you) Talk 2: How to build Successful AI Agents 11:50, Stage 4 (this is largely about what it takes to make world class agents, if you're building or buying agents, this is for you) Some teaser slides attached, see you all there!
AI‑Driven SaaS Secures Massive Funding and Billion‑Dollar Deals
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...
Turn Supabase UI Into a Micro SaaS Lifetime Deal
💡 Micro SaaS Idea: - Clone Supabase repo - Pull out the tables/queries UI - Turn it into a small web app Sell on a lifetime deal.
Built 10 Apps in 125 Days, Showcased at Replit All‑Hands
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 Wins Pearson’s Teacher’s Pet Award
Agentforce 360 just became teacher’s pet at @pearson 🍎 https://t.co/XzbtkbN8Nl
AI SRE Companion Automates Alert Investigation, Cuts Firefighting
Deeptrace (@deeptraceai) is an AI SRE and debugging companion that automatically investigates every production alert and surfaces a clear root cause, so your engineers spend less time firefighting and more time building. https://t.co/CAQGUInYRE Congrats on the launch, @srinth32 & @andys_lee!
SMB Sales Provide More Deals, Faster Growth, Longer Tenure
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...
Jarmin: Your 24/7 AI Engineer for Production
https://t.co/meeYOYUPva is your 24/7 ML engineer employee that builds and ships production-ready AI features for you. Just talk to Jarmin (@jarmin_ai) like any other employee, and Jarmin handles your AI/ML work from there, from data prep to deployment. https://t.co/sCoHG7wybr
AI B2B Sales Teams Halved, Efficiency Soars
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...
AI Demo Agent Scales Product Walkthroughs 24/7
Karumi (@karumihq) is an AI demo agent that makes product demos scalable — it talks, clicks, and personalizes every walkthrough, 24/7. https://t.co/8zAlTgMlcq
AI Travel SaaS Hits $345K Revenue, 300% Growth
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
Precision Over Volume: Learn Faster, Scale Smarter
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,...
Slack Shifted Email From Core to Peripheral Collaboration Tool
Slack didn’t kill email. It made it much less relevant and useful for internal company collaboration.
Align ARR Growth with Sales & Marketing Spend
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
Edit React UI Directly From Browser Elements
JSX Tool (@jsxtool) is an in-browser IDE for building React UIs. Click on any element in the browser to jump straight to the relevant line of code and edit it yourself or provide precise context to an LLM to make updates....
Hyper‑Growth Blueprint: $10M ARR Without Brand Fame
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...
Expert‑Generated Data Fuels Billion‑Dollar AI Startup
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...
Product‑Obsessed Startups Secure Billion‑Dollar Valuations
Two of my portfolio companies announced blockbuster rounds today: Gamma ($68M Series B at $2.1B valuation) and Scribe ($75M Series C at $1.3B valuation)! What they have in common, besides incredible founders: a maniacal focus on the product and user...
Seeking Discussion on CLI‑First Headless SaaS
Anyone thinking about CLI-first SaaS (headless) and want to chat?
Even Serious B2B Benefits From Simple Link Integration
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...
AI Curiosity Outpaces Capability; Innovators Reinvent, Not Trim
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...
Captain Raises Enterprise Knowledge Search Accuracy to 95%
Captain (@RunCaptainRAG) delivers unprecedented accuracy in enterprise knowledge search. It connects directly to cloud file stores and improves today's RAG pipelines from 78% to 95% accuracy. https://t.co/jtXm3o58Aj
Join the 7th SaaS Tech Stack Survey for Free Resources
What tech is used in your back office? 🤖 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...
From $25K Debt to $1.2M Freedom: Startup Resilience
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...
AI-Native Status Now Essential, Even for Legacy Firms
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...
AI Agents Deliver 24/7 Multilingual Product Demos
Primer (@startprimer) is building AI agents to redefine how millions of companies demo, onboard, and support their users. Their agents are experts on your product and give live, personalized walkthroughs like your best salesperson, but in any language, 24/7. https://t.co/LJCcKnWg5B
Longevity and Product-Launch Cadence Drive B2B Marketing Success
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...
Reach SaaS Critical Mass: Small Wins Fuel Explosive Momentum
Critical mass in a SaaS is very real. It's like pushing a boulder uphill for years - and then one day, all those small efforts start to compound: - late-night features you shipped for customers (like in this pic) -...
Free FP&A Masterclass: 30+ Excel Templates & Intangibles
Climbing the ranks of FP&A? I have 30+ Excel formula templates for download, explainer videos, and the intangibles you must master to climb the ranks. I started my FP&A career in the airline industry and then continued in FP&A in...
SaaS Achieves 90% Profit Margin with Minimal Overhead
A margin this high for a task and workflow SaaS is insane. Live on @acquiredotcom: > $423k TTM revenue > $384k TTM profit > 5,000+ paying customers 20+ years in the market. Near zero overhead. Full listing here: https://t.co/Bu8ma6ccSD https://t.co/Y2sadhLoRe
Design SaaS for Human Managers of Massive AI Agents
SaaS + AI Agents are the best combination for the future of software. You need deterministic systems for handling workflows, security, governance, data management, and providing consistent end-user interfaces that users interact with. But Agents will be doing most of...
Prioritize User Feedback; Your Opinion Is Just Noise
People often ask for my opinion on their product as if I’m the target user. I always ask them the same question: What do your users think? Your users’ opinions are data. Mine is a distraction.
Growth Scaling Is a Science, Not Guesswork
If you’ve built an incredible product. And you’ve got some revenue. Then you’ve started to see some product market fit. But now comes the harder question. How do we scale this? What if I told you there is a science to driving growth?
Free AI Reviews 2,000+ VC Pitch Decks Instantly
This week we’ll cross 2,000 (!) VC Pitch Decks reviewed for FREE on SaaStr AI Try it here -> https://t.co/hVolcGvbUt - Real time scoring - Real time valuation based on 5,000+ rounds - Exact odds of funding based on top VC rounds this...
Kestrel Automates Kubernetes Ops and Security with One-Click Fixes
Kestrel (@kestrel__ai) is the agentic platform that unifies Kubernetes ops & security, replacing manual triage and on-call firefighting with autonomous investigations and one-click fixes. https://t.co/rcusxrmmmP Congrats on the launch, @ramanv_ & @Evanj80! https://t.co/i8lW9R9nAj
Articulate Their Pain Better, Earn Their Trust
Copywriting pro tip: If you can articulate someone's pain better than they can, they will believe you have the ability to solve it. Focus on their pain, not your pitch.
Customer Success Shouldn't Report to Sales: Future at Stake
My least favorite idea of all is to have customer success report to sales It's trading off the future for the present
Sell the Person, Not the Product, to Win
Sales is a lot like poker. You don't play your hand, you play the man in front of you. You don't sell the product, you sell the prospect. If you can learn someone's why, you can sell them almost any...
AI-Powered Real-Time Tracking Cuts Nursing Facility Costs
Norra combines real-time tracking and AI to give nursing facilities the operational intelligence they've never had. No more overpurchasing or scavenger hunts, just instant answers, streamlined operations, and lower rental spend. https://t.co/lVxWk71pgk https://t.co/yNQSy8ERfV
Finding the ‘Just Right’ Balance Creates Effortless Harmony
One of my greatest pleasures at work is trying to find that point where the work feels just right. Nothing more, nothing less, but right there in the pocket. It's there in every component, in every feature, in every flow, in...
Nice CTOs Stifle Innovation and Halt Growth
A VP mis-hire is always tough. A VP Sales mis-hire can set you back a year in sales. A VP Marketing mis-hire can lead you down massive time and money ratholes that don’t get you any more customers. But,...
Growth Stalls Beyond Pipeline: Uncover Deeper Business Bottlenecks
Why your pipeline isn’t the problem. 4 deeper issues sabotaging your growth. Most AI and SaaS Founders obsess over pipeline metrics, but that’s rarely the real bottleneck. It’s so easy to blame a dry pipeline when the real issues live deeper inside...
Enterprise AI Agents Must Be Domain Specialists, Not Generalists
Despite some of the popular fears that all AI agent use-cases could get sucked into a single platform, I'd argue the other side of this for the enterprise. AI agents, possibly more than any prior era of tech, need to...
Build Site APIs 100× Cheaper and Faster with Parse
Parse lets you build APIs for any website— 100x cheaper and faster than browser automation. Parse makes deterministic APIs that use direct network requests that cost fractions of a cent and return in milliseconds. https://t.co/3KZqJuHUhg Congrats on the launch, @alexscraping! https://t.co/msFhWUFwxr
Completed 33 Tasks Using Unstoppable Flow
Knocked 33 tasks off my hit list this week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn2yKD
AI Desktop Copilot Suggests Emails, Tasks, Meetings
Logical (@trylogical) is a proactive AI copilot for the desktop. It’s like Clippy, but actually good. Logical lives on your desktop, watches what you do, and proactively suggests email drafts, tracks to-do items, provides meeting insights, and much more. https://t.co/vReZpDmrYS
