Email Marketing Vs. Social Media Marketing: Understanding the Real Differences in Value, Reach, and Long-Term ROI
The post argues that while social media excels at discovery, email marketing delivers far superior mid‑ and bottom‑funnel performance, predictability, and ROI, largely because subscribers actively opt‑in and brands own the relationship. Key data points include 60% of consumers subscribing for offers versus only 20% following for promotions, a 3,800% ROI for email versus 28% for social, and markedly higher conversion rates from email. The author emphasizes that email’s owned list is a durable asset immune to platform algorithm changes, recommending marketers prioritize building email lists while using social as a complementary channel.
Small Face‑to‑Face Events Drive Top Marketing Engagement
Saturday photo drop from Scale Venture Partners GTM AI Summit. A lot of marketers are saying that smaller f2f events are one of their top channels. Love that. Tip of the day: you know held a great event when people...
7 Pillars of Agentic AI Define Next‑Gen Autonomous Systems
🏛️ The 7 Pillars of Agentic AI: the foundation of the next technological era Agentic AI represents a new paradigm where AI systems evolve from passive tools to autonomous agents capable of acting, planning, reasoning and collaborating. This framework is...
MarTech Data Drives Better Experiences But Transparency Must Lead the Way
The post argues that while MarTech data fuels AI‑driven personalization and superior customer experiences, transparency and user control must be front‑and‑center. It traces the evolution from the failed Do Not Track initiative to the enforceable Global Privacy Control, and calls...
Train Today, Win Tomorrow: Embrace AI Workflows
We launched an AI contest internally, everyone built Lindy workflows and showed a demo of their agent. The goal is clear: train teams to build agentic workflows that sync with chat tools and our products. You win later by prepping today. AI...
AI Can Now Build 3D Worlds… And Live Inside Them
The episode explores the rapid convergence of AI-driven 3D world generators—such as World Labs' Marble and video‑diffusion system Genie‑3—and embodied agents like Google’s SIMA 2 that can perceive and act within those environments. Bilawal Sidhu explains how this fusion creates persistent,...
Overfunded GTM Startups Build Too Much, Miss Value
$80M in funding and their main claim to fame is they are out of stealth with 90 EMPLOYEES... what the hell is going on in GTM tech? I am always a little bit saddened when I see these consolidation plays...
Google Adds Auto-Call Shopping Feature to Its AI Suite
In this episode, the host explains Google’s new Auto‑Call Shopping feature, an AI‑driven agent that eliminates the need for human phone calls by handling store communications automatically. The discussion highlights how the technology streamlines the purchasing process, improves efficiency, and...
Cursor Adds $2.3B to Its War Chest for AI Development
The episode discusses Cursor’s recent $2.3 billion funding round, which equips the company to accelerate development of its AI‑powered integrated development environment. Hosts highlight how the capital will enable faster rollout of new features and position Cursor as a potential industry‑standard...
Choose Sales or Marketing: Spend Where Returns Arrive Faster
Trying to save money? Here’s where to invest: sales vs marketing. Most founders overspend on the wrong one. In this video, I break down the difference: 👉 when to double down on marketing 👉 when sales will give you faster...
Cursor Attracts $2.3B as AI Dev Tools Explode
The episode discusses the rapid growth of AI development tools, focusing on Cursor’s recent $2.3 billion funding round and its role in boosting developer productivity. It highlights how Cursor’s AI‑powered code assistant differentiates itself by offering seamless integration and real‑time assistance,...
Seven Fintech Trends Shaping Banking by 2026
The 7 Banking and Fintech Trends That Will Define 2026 From embedded finance and real time payments to quantum resistant systems and AI agent advisors, here are the trends fintech leaders must prepare for in 2026. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSVhcE5y...
Sluggish Software Delivery Is an Executive-Level Risk
Sluggish software delivery has become a board‑room risk, according to CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur, as missed timelines erode revenue, damage reputations and weaken competitiveness. Enterprises typically juggle more than seven DevOps tools, creating fragmented pipelines, security bottlenecks and loss of...
Google’s New AI Agent Can Call Local Shops for Live Info
The episode explores Google’s new AI agent that can call local shops to retrieve live information, highlighting its speed, accuracy, and human‑like interaction. It explains how the tool provides real‑time confirmations, transforming the shopping experience by enabling instant verification of...
10 Surprising B2B Customer Triggers to Boost Conversions
Next week!!! 10 Surprising Customer Behavior Triggers You’ll Want to Steal. If you market to a B2B audience, then you need to be at #mpb2b . You’ll gain insights from industry thought leaders like Pam Didner , Ashley Faus ,...
Inference Scaling Boosts LLM Accuracy From 15% to 52%
Inference-scaling lets us trade extra compute for better modeling accuracy. Next to reinforcement learning, it has become one of the most important concepts in today's LLMs, so the book will cover it in two chapters instead of just one. I...
AI Scams Surge: How Consumers and Businesses Can Stay Safe
AI‑driven scams are exploding, with ClickFix attacks up 517% and now representing 8% of blocked incidents, while deep‑fake voice and video impersonations and malicious QR‑code phishing proliferate. In the U.S., online scams cost $16.6 billion in 2024, affecting 73% of adults...
AI Is Rewiring Your Customer’s Mind… And Marketing Will Never Be the Same
The post reviews Mark Schaefer’s new book *How AI Changes Your Customers*, arguing that AI is reshaping customers’ cognition, emotions, and decision‑making, forcing marketers to target both algorithms and humans. It highlights the risks of shortcut thinking, reduced patience and...
Framework’s Franken-Laptop Is Back with Big Chip Upgrades and Familiar Frustrations
Framework unveiled the 2025 refresh of its Laptop 16, adding AMD Ryzen AI 7‑350/7‑370 CPUs, Wi‑Fi 7, a redesigned heatsink, a 240 W USB‑C charger and a new 1080p webcam, all sold as upgrade modules for existing owners. The headline upgrade is a user‑replaceable...
LLMs Sound Confident, Not Truthful—Question Their Answers
LLMs don’t know what’s true. They just try to sound helpful. If you ask the wrong question, you can still get a very confident answer. And confidence is not accuracy. Use AI to challenge your reasoning, not to replace it. But you need to be...
Your Personal Leverage Breaks the Revenue Team Illusion
Most revenue teams aren’t “stuck.” They’re trapped in a maze where everyone’s sprinting, no one’s advancing, and half the dashboards are basically fan fiction. People slap on optimism, talk about “momentum,” and quietly hope no one notices the last six...
Opera Neon Unifies Browser, Chat, and Cloud Automation
The AI browser space is heating up 🔥 OpenAI Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and many others are trying to merge AI and web browsing. @Opera's Neon goes beyond that. It’s an AI-powered workspace where your browser, chat, and cloud automation all merge seamlessly. 🧵 ↓...
Seagate's New Storage Looks to Cover Everything You'll Need for the Age of AI - Including up to 3.2 Petabytes...
Seagate announced its Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems aimed at AI and edge workloads, with the flagship 4U100 delivering up to 3.2 petabytes of capacity in a single 4‑U enclosure. The systems leverage Seagate’s Mozaic HAMR technology and support both SAS...
Remote Work and the Big Breaches of 2025: Cause or Convenient Excuse?
Remote work amplified existing security gaps in 2025 but was rarely the sole cause of major breaches, which were driven by exposed credentials, misconfigured cloud services, weak third‑party controls and human error. Industry analyses show attackers often combined these weaknesses,...
Feeling Guilty for Not Sharing AI How‑to Guides
At times I feel remiss I don't write more, "Here's how AI can help you" articles. Part of this is because I've been writing "how to" articles for over twenty years, focusing on the pragmatic aspects of a technology like...
360‑Camera World Models Will Make Robots Smart Soon
How weird is my life? This morning @boosterobotics head of global markets (Chinese humanoid robots) was sitting at the table next to mine in Abu Dhabi. He agrees with me that world models are about to change robotics deeply and that 360...
Design a Tiny Business, Live a Freedom‑Focused Life
I've deliberately kept my business tiny — just me. Because business isn't about scaling to infinity. It's about designing a life you don't need to escape from. I work focused hours, then close my laptop. No investor calls. No endless...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT 5.1 and Group Chats
The episode outlines the new features of ChatGPT 5.1, highlighting faster response times, enhanced reasoning capabilities, and a smoother user interface. It then explains the Group Chats functionality, showing how multiple participants can collaborate in real time and streamline workflow automation....
360° Vision Beats Human‑Like Sensors in Robots
It is stupid that a robot needs to “aim” to see things. The robot industry still hasn’t figured out that a 360-degree camera is superior. Same with humanoid robots. A 360-degree camera is far superior to the ones @1x_tech put in theirs. It...
Minority Recap Keeps Control, Majority Sells Liquidity
The fundamental difference between a minority and majority recap: Control. If you sell a majority of your business, you'll receive a high level of liquidity, but all the key decisions will now be out of your control. With a minority...
Leaked Documents Shed Light Into How Much OpenAI Pays Microsoft
Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs.
Harry, Rory, and Jason Return Live at SaaStr London
We're back! Harry, Rory and Jason! And come see the team LIVE at SaaStrLondon.com 1-2 in ... London!! The venture capital playbook is broken. Not bent — broken. In the latest 20VC x SaaStr episode, Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and...
Google’s New AI Training Method Helps Small Models Tackle Complex Reasoning
Researchers from Google Cloud and UCLA unveiled Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL), a framework that reformulates problem solving as a sequence of intermediate actions and provides step‑wise rewards. SRL enables 7‑billion‑parameter models such as Qwen2.5‑7B‑Instruct to gain a 3 % lift on...
Agentic AI: Seven Pillars Power Next Evolution
Agentic AI is redefining the future of intelligent systems. Its power lies in 7 pillars: autonomy, planning, collaboration, reasoning, tool use, memory and safety. From passive tools to proactive agents — this is the next evolution of AI. #AI #AgenticAI #Innovation #FutureOfWork
Content Guardian Agents Ensure AI Content Stays On‑Brand, Accurate
AI is powerful—but imperfect. Matt Blumberg (CEO @ Markup AI) explains how content guardian agents keep AI-generated content on-brand, compliant, and accurate. Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast 👉 https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B #SaaS https://t.co/RklJVLlNeL
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
In this episode, Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das recounts his transition from building Glean into a $7 billion AI‑native enterprise search firm to investing early in Anthropic and managing the $100 million Ontology Fund. He explains how Anthropic’s rapid growth and products...
AI Triumphs Over Human in Abu Dhabi Motorsport
The AI beat the human. @A2RLeague is exciting. The crowd was pulling for the human. But alas. Exciting Motorsport here in Abu Dhabi. Shows that robots can now compete with humans in Motorsport in a head-to-head race. Here are the final two laps. https://t.co/EKhH2DyVpp
AI Grows, Yet Search Share Holds; Gemini, ChatGPT Lead
If you somehow missed our joint report with Datos, A Semrush Company from 2 weeks ago: - AI tools continue to grow - But they're not taking market share from traditional search - Zero-click searches continue to rise (based on...
Databricks Co-Founder Argues US Must Go Open Source to Beat China in AI
Databricks co‑founder Andy Konwinski warned at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit that the United States is losing its AI research edge to China, noting that PhD students are seeing twice as many compelling Chinese AI ideas as American ones. He...
Real-Time 3D Home Mapping Showcases Computer Vision Power
Computer vision is fucking cool. Matic robo building a real time 3d map of your house. https://t.co/GSZq4fN11m
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples This Week
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
MailButler: Eliminate Your Inbox Guesswork with Email AI and Tracking
The post introduces MailButler, an extension for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail that injects AI‑driven writing, smart scheduling, real‑time tracking, and collaborative tools directly into existing inboxes, turning email into a strategic productivity hub. It highlights key features such as the...
Rapid Iterations Boost CompanyResearch.ai with GPT‑5.1
It's almost 3am, but I'm on a roll. UPDATE: It *was* 3am last night when I started writing this, but I (wisely) decided *not* to post this last night. Day 3 of the CompanyResearch .ai launch. Just released an update:...
If Hackers Can Use AI to Automate Massive Cyber Attacks, Terminator Robots Are the Least of Our Problems
Anthropic disclosed that it intercepted a large‑scale AI‑driven cyber‑espionage campaign, likely orchestrated by Chinese hackers, that targeted tech firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers and government agencies in September 2024. The attackers leveraged advanced language models to automate 80‑90% of the...
Data Shows No AI Bubble Despite Hype
Everyone’s talking about the ‘AI bubble’ but the numbers say otherwise. This chart makes it obvious. Here's what everyone's missing👇
AI Growth Outpaces Bubble Narrative, Numbers Confirm
Everyone’s talking about the ‘AI bubble’ but the numbers say otherwise. This chart makes it obvious. Here's what everyone's missing 👇 For months we’ve seen the headlines: “Tech valuations are inflated.” “AI will crash like the dot-com era.” But the...
Forget AGI—Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the latest GPT‑5.1 model now respects a custom instruction to omit em dashes, a long‑standing formatting quirk that many users have used to spot AI‑generated text. The post sparked mixed reactions, with...
Marketing Brings Market Context to Executive Decision‑Making
Marketing is uniquely able to bring a critical perspective that is very often missing from the executive table - that of the market. The data that drives much of company decision making is typically internal and isolated, but it massively...
Startups Forge AI-Ready Economy Through API Alliances
The Great API Alliance: How Startups Are Building the AI-Ready Economy https://t.co/9w1SbVHnxg via @TheAIJournal1 #AI #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/I1yjOarzku
Hacked Company CTO Refuses to Pay Ransom Demand, Donates Money to Funding Research Instead
Checkout.com’s CTO Mariano Albera confirmed that the payments firm was hit by a digital extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters group in early November 2025, when attackers accessed a legacy third‑party cloud storage containing internal documents and merchant onboarding files from...
