The B2B SaaS Growth Program Fall 2025 Cohort
The post announces a new 16‑week Done‑With‑You B2B SaaS Growth Program launching on October 16, 2025, aimed at SaaS companies with $1M‑$100M ARR that want to build ABM lead lists, run AI‑personalized outbound campaigns, and scale digital advertising. It highlights weekly live Zoom sessions with SaasRise founder Ryan Allis and ad expert David Trachsel, promising two fully functional growth channels and in‑house expertise by the end of the program for a cost of $5,000 per month. The author positions the cohort as a step‑by‑step, hands‑on solution for CEOs, founders, and marketing leaders, with an application deadline of September 30.
SaaS Unit Economics: A Deep Dive for CEOs
The post explains how SaaS CEOs can drive scalable growth by mastering key unit economics—ARPA, churn, lifespan, LTV and CAC—and using optimal ratios such as a 3:1 LTV:CAC and sub‑3.5% monthly churn as signals to accelerate sales spend. Ryan Allis...
What’s the Path to AGI? A Conversation with Turing Co-Founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth
The post serves as a curated roundup of recent Gradient Dissent podcast episodes, featuring AI founders and CEOs—from Surge AI’s Jonathan Siddharth on AGI pathways to leaders at Glean, DeepL, GitHub, and more—who share origin stories, challenges, and how their...
Two New SaaS Valuation Calculators
The post introduces two SaaS valuation calculators—Livmo’s interactive tool and SaaStr’s calculator—to help founders estimate company worth using metrics like ARR, growth, and EBITDA. It highlights recent M&A multiples, noting a median 4.1x revenue and 19.4x EBITDA for private deals...
New Mastermind Group For VC Backed CEOs
The post announces a new weekly mastermind group exclusively for venture‑backed tech CEOs who have raised at least $5 million, aiming to provide peer support on scaling, fundraising, exit planning, and founder well‑being. Led by SaaS veteran Ryan Allis, the group...
Graphs and ML for Robotics
The post features Abhishek Paudel, a PhD student who uses graph‑based methods to improve robotics, machine learning, and planning under uncertainty. He explains how graphs can model environments, capture spatial relationships, and serve as a unifying framework for multi‑level planning...
How 600+ SaaS CEOs Are Scaling From $1M to $100M ARR Together
The post promotes SaasRise’s weekly mastermind calls that bring together 600+ SaaS CEOs and founders scaling from $1M to $100M ARR, offering peer feedback on growth, hiring, ops, AI, product, and exit strategies. It outlines the Summer 2025 schedule, highlights...
The B2B LinkedIn Strategy Guide
The post presents a detailed B2B LinkedIn strategy used by SaasRise, outlining tactics such as Sales Navigator ABM list building, AI‑personalized outbound email, automated connection requests, retargeting and thought‑leader ads, viral organic content, and a LinkedIn newsletter. Ryan Allis shares...
EP83: Self Driving Computers, Plus SearchGPT, & Github Copilot with Sonnet
The post introduces "This Day in AI" podcast, hosted by Michael and Chris Sharkey, two self‑described average tech enthusiasts who explore AI topics with a humorous, no‑expert approach. It highlights the show’s casual format—off‑the‑cuff hot takes, AI experiment stories, prank...
Our Top New Content From 1H 2025
The post curates the best SaaS growth and exit‑preparation content from the first half of 2025—webinars, reports, podcasts, templates and videos—organized for easy sharing. It highlights resources on raising capital, scaling, AI‑personalized outbound, and detailed M&A and VC reports, all...
A Guide to Founder Liquidity
The post explains how SaaS and tech founders can secure personal liquidity through minority recapitalizations—selling less than 50% of their equity to growth or private equity investors—while retaining control and upside. It illustrates the concept with a detailed case study...
Elizabeth Kelly (AISI): How Will the US AI Safety Institute Lead the US and Globe in AI Safety?
In this episode of the #InAIWeTrust podcast, Elizabeth Kelly, director of the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), discusses the impact of the recent National Security Memorandum on AI and her role in shaping the Biden administration’s AI Executive Order....
The Importance of Compounding in Marketplaces
Recently, I had a discussion with a marketplace I advise, where the team raised an intriguing question.
The Risks of Too Much AI: Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn
In the podcast, Fortune AI editor Jeremy Kahn warns that over‑reliance on generative AI can erode critical thinking, source verification, and the deep reasoning that comes from writing, likening the risk to past tech such as PowerPoint. He cites examples...
Segment and Channel Expansion in Growth Teams
I want to discuss a challenge that many growth teams confront as they strive to create a significant impact within their companies.
EP82: Crazy Computer Use, Anthopic's Sonnet 3.5 (New) & the xAI Surprise
The post introduces the "Day in AI" podcast, hosted by Michael and Chris Sharkey, two self‑described average tech enthusiasts who explore AI without academic pretensions. It highlights the show’s blend of mediocre hot takes, DIY AI experiments, prank calls, and...
Vercel’s CEO & Founder Guillermo Rauch on the Impact of AI on Web Development and Front End Engineering
The post is a curated roundup of recent Gradient Dissent podcast episodes, each featuring AI‑focused founders and CEOs discussing their companies’ breakthroughs—from data labeling at Surge AI and enterprise search at Glean to neural translation at DeepL and developer tools...
Marketing Attribution for Scaling Startups
I want to discuss a topic that every marketer and data analyst loves: attribution.
AI in the Classroom with Irina Jurenka
The post catalogs Professor Hannah Fry’s DeepMind podcast series, showcasing a wide‑range of AI applications—from cybersecurity and drug design to robotics, scientific discovery, and education. In the highlighted Episode 7, Fry and research lead Irina Jurenka examine how AI tutors can...
Cartoon-Sized Hammers and Shot-Glass Sized Brains
Today, I want to discuss the topic of onboarding and activation, sharing an example that I recently found both illuminating and potentially beneficial to others.
Graph Databases and AI
The post interviews Microsoft Gray Systems Lab principal scientist Yuanyuan Tian about how graph databases uniquely model relationships, enabling complex applications such as fraud detection, security, healthcare, and supply‑chain optimization. It highlights the practical challenges of moving from SQL to...
Michael Chertoff (Chertoff Group) and Miriam Vogel (EqualAI): Is Your AI Use Violating the Law?
In a special episode of the #InAIWeTrust? podcast, EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff discuss their co‑authored paper on the legal risks of AI deployment, highlighting current statutes, emerging liabilities, and practical guidance for lawyers, executives,...
The "No Differentiation" Illusion
How do we position a product that doesn't have any advantages over the alternatives? Let's start by entertaining the idea that maybe we're wrong about that.
Never Too Much AI: Upwork's Andrew Rabinovich
In the podcast, Upwork’s VP of AI, Andrew Rabinovich, explains how the platform is shifting from simple talent matching to an outcome‑driven model powered by AI, exemplified by the new "Uma" assistant that translates client needs into solutions by pairing...
Streamlining Your AI Tools & Subscriptions with Magai with Dustin Stout
In this episode, Kinsey Soderberg interviews Dustin Stout, CEO of Magai, about his shift from acting to entrepreneurship and the creation of Magai—a platform that consolidates multiple AI tools into a single, user‑friendly interface. Stout explains how Magai tackles the...
Dear SaaStr: What’s Your Top Advice For All New B2B Founders?
A veteran SaaS VC advises new B2B founders to temper speed with caution, recommending they pause on uncertain big decisions and extend runway budgets by 6‑12 months beyond original forecasts. He stresses the importance of building a aligned founding team...
EP81: Can AI Make Your Life Easier? Geoffrey Hinton Is Relevant Again & State of AI Report
In this episode, Michael and Chris discuss Geoffrey Hinton’s renewed relevance after his Nobel win and explore practical AI applications using OpenAI’s Realtime API for voice‑based phone agents, including attempts to book appointments and even a quirky dog‑groomer‑for‑a‑pig call. They...
Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on 700+ LLM Enterprise Use Cases
The post is a curated roundup of recent Gradient Dissent podcast episodes where host Lukas Biewald interviews a range of AI‑focused CEOs and leaders—from Surge AI’s founder on data labeling, Glean’s CEO on enterprise search, DeepL’s chief on translation, to...
I Want My Corners
I work with a lot of product leaders and product managers that have direct access to CEOs, founders, or other leaders that are much more senior than them.
BI 195 Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
In this episode of Brain Inspired, hosts Paul and Gaute Einevoll share recordings from a Norwegian Neuro‑AI workshop, featuring conversations with neuroscientists Ken Harris and Andreas Tolias. Harris discusses his ultra‑high‑density recordings of thousands of neurons and the challenges of...
Creating Your Team of Custom GPTs with Niki Dunagin
In this episode, host Kinsey Soderberg interviews Niki Dunigan, founder of The Creative CoPilot, about her shift from real‑estate to AI coaching and how custom GPTs can empower creative entrepreneurs. Niki explains how AI can fill skill gaps, streamline branding...
EP80: Corey Hotline, OpenAI DevDay 2024 Recap, Microsoft CoPilot, ChatGPT Canvas & Ray-Band Doxing
The episode recaps OpenAI Dev Day highlights, focusing on the new Realtime API, its voice capabilities, and practical tests like the Corey Hotline, while also covering GPT‑4o image fine‑tuning, prompt caching, and model distillation techniques. It then shifts to Microsoft’s...
Dr. Brennan Spiegel (Cedars-Sinai): AI in Healthcare: Will AI Help Humans to Thrive?
In this podcast episode, Dr. Brennan Spiegel, director of health services research at Cedars‑Sinai, explains how AI can boost efficiency and patient care, highlighting his co‑founding of Xaia, an AI‑driven mental‑health tool. He emphasizes the need for human‑centered design, arguing...
Ethically Sourced Creativity: Shutterstock's Alessandra Sala
Alessandra Sala, senior director of AI at Shutterstock, explains how the company leverages its curated library of 825 million creative assets as an ethically sourced training set for AI, rewarding contributors through a royalty‑sharing model. She highlights Shutterstock’s structured acquisition process,...
36 - Adam Shai and Paul Riechers on Computational Mechanics
In this episode, host interviews Adam Shai and Paul Riechers about applying computational mechanics—a physics subfield for predicting random processes—to understand and scale transformer models. They explain how computational mechanics differs from other approaches, describe the fractal geometry of belief‑state...
New Patreon Tiers + MATS Applications
The post announces the launch of new Patreon tiers for the AI X‑risk Research Podcast, outlining the added benefits and how listeners can support the show. It also highlights the MATS (Machine Intelligence Research Institute's Alignment Training) application process, encouraging...
EP79: Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Which Models Do People Actually Use?
The episode "EP79: Fun with ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode & Which Models Do People Actually Use?" is a light‑hearted discussion on the Day in AI podcast where hosts Michael and Chris Sharkey explore ChatGPT’s new voice capabilities and debate the...
Elevating ML Infrastructure with Modal Labs CEO Erik Bernhardsson
The post curates a series of Gradient Dissent podcast episodes where host Lukas Biewald interviews a range of AI and tech leaders—from data‑labeling pioneer Surge AI to translation powerhouse DeepL, GitHub’s Copilot team, and AI‑driven cybersecurity and defense experts. Each...
Gaming, Goats & General Intelligence with Frederic Besse
The post outlines Professor Hannah Fry’s AI‑focused podcast series, highlighting episodes that explore AI’s impact on cybersecurity, world‑model generation, drug discovery, robotics, health, philosophy, and regulation, among other fields. Each episode features DeepMind experts who discuss cutting‑edge research, practical applications,...
Process Mining with LLMs
The post features David Obembe discussing his master’s thesis on creating a conversational interface for process‑mining tools using large language models (LLMs). He explains process mining fundamentals, how event logs become process maps, and how LLMs can speed up insight...
Easy Ways to Train Your AI Assistant on Your Brand (for Better Results!)
The post offers solopreneurs practical methods to train AI assistants—especially ChatGPT—to reflect their unique brand voice, covering everything from creating a brand persona to building an ultimate AI training tool. It highlights tips shared in a guest interview, including overcoming...
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AIS002:061 [Gareth Rydon] AI to Augment Not Replace, Why Taking a Human-Centric Approach Is Key
In this episode of the Evolvepreneur AI Advantage Show, host Richard Wray talks with AI entrepreneur Gareth Rydon about why AI should augment, not replace, human work, stressing a human‑centric design approach. Rydon draws on his service‑design background and his...
EP78: One Week Later: O1-Mini O1-Preview & Can We Now Build Agents?
The post introduces episode EP78 of the "This Day in AI" podcast, where hosts Michael and Chris discuss the recent release of OpenAI's o1-mini and o1-preview models and debate whether these advances now enable practical AI agents. They share hands‑on...
Practical Workflow Orchestration
The post highlights the growing pain of workflow orchestration for data scientists, especially with AI-driven, agentic pipelines that can fail in unpredictable ways. It features Adam Azzam from Prefect explaining their open‑source Python library for orchestrating and monitoring pipelines, along...
BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
The post recaps episode BI 196 of the *Brain Inspired* podcast, where hosts Gaute Einevoll and a guest discuss Neuro‑AI with researchers Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels. Savin describes using recurrent neural networks to model learning and behavior, while Vogels explains how AI‑driven optimization is...
AI: Supercharging Scientific Exploration with Pushmeet Kohli
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry interviews Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, to explore how AI is accelerating scientific discovery across fields such as material science, biology, weather forecasting, and mathematics. Kohli highlights concrete breakthroughs—like AI‑designed new materials,...
AI Tips for SEO and Adding Personality to Your Content with Rachel Hernandez
In this episode, host Kinsey interviews Rachel Hernandez, Director of Marketing at NextNet Media, about using AI tools like ClearScope and Copymatic to boost SEO while keeping content authentic. Hernandez emphasizes the need for thorough editing, injecting personality through puns,...
EP77: OpenAI O1 & O1-Mini, The Era of AI Reasoning & Is Reflection-70B a Fraud?
The post introduces the "This Day in AI" podcast, hosted by Michael and Chris Sharkey, which offers casual, humor‑filled discussions about AI experiments, tools, and trends without pretension or expert credentials. It highlights the show’s format—weekly (or irregular) hour‑long episodes...
From No-Code to AI-Powered Apps with Airtable’s Howie Liu
The post is a curated roundup of recent Gradient Dissent podcast episodes, each featuring a different AI leader—from Surge AI’s Howie Liu to GitHub’s Thomas Dohmke—discussing their companies' origins, breakthroughs, and the broader impact of AI on fields like data...
Conversation with Luma AI's Sam Sinha
The Pulse of AI podcast episode 146 features Luma AI co‑founder Sam Sinha discussing how the company expanded from five people to the team behind the Dream Machine video‑creation tool. He explores the evolving role of AI as a creative...
