
The post outlines a step‑by‑step ABM list‑building playbook that leverages Apollo, ListKit, Instantly, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Clay to create a high‑quality, enriched prospect database for B2B growth. It emphasizes defining a clear ICP, using each tool for data acquisition, enrichment, deduplication, and adding personal emails to boost ad match rates, then activating the list across Meta, LinkedIn, Google ads and outbound email sequences. The author frames ABM as a precision‑driven, machine‑oriented approach that shifts data ownership to marketing, offering practical tips, cost estimates, and workflow details.
Chronosphere, the $1.6 billion New‑York observability startup, announced AI‑Guided Troubleshooting built around a Temporal Knowledge Graph that continuously maps services, dependencies and change events. The feature delivers data‑backed “Suggestions,” investigation notebooks and natural‑language queries, keeping engineers in control by showing the...
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 knows....

The post explains how to leverage ChatGPT as a research and data‑analysis tool to build highly targeted ABM account lists for niche ideal customer profiles, outlining a step‑by‑step workflow from defining the ICP to prompting ChatGPT, enriching results with tools...

Wikipedia’s nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation announced that AI developers must access its content via the paid Wikimedia Enterprise API rather than scraping, aiming to reduce server strain and generate revenue for its mission. The blog post highlighted recent spikes in AI...

The post is a step‑by‑step guide on using the Clay platform to create, enrich, and activate a unified account‑based marketing (ABM) lead list, covering everything from defining the ideal customer profile to adding verified work and personal emails, phone numbers,...
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 from...
Deep learning is not a collection of black-box tricks, contrary to what many believe. It can be learned as a principled engineering discipline. This latest edition of Deep Learning with Python is my best attempt so far at teaching it. It...

The post explains how to leverage LinkedIn Sales Navigator to create a high‑quality ABM lead list, starting with a precise Ideal Customer Profile, using Navigator’s filters, and exporting data via Chrome extensions or outsourced help. It then details enriching and...
" There are no websites with enough customer testimonial videos." They are powerful for two big reasons... 1. Video is the most engaging / trust-building format for content 2. Testimonials change the messenger from the brand to the audience themselves. When you say it, it's...

Introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), a suite of models providing ASR capabilities for over 1,600 languages, including 500 low-coverage languages never before served by any ASR system. While most ASR systems focus on a limited set of languages that...
Patreon announced a suite of new social‑media‑style tools, including "Quips"—short text, photo or video posts that are public by default and open for comments—to showcase content and attract prospective patrons. The platform will also enable creators to collaborate on posts...

Datadog is becoming a platform company, & its Q3 2025 results underscore how successful this transition is. If nothing else, the consistency around 25% growth for the last 12 quarters exemplifies this point.

Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Google Photos via an "Ask" button, allowing users to query their personal photo libraries with natural language. In a test case, the author, with a 172,000‑image archive, typed "Picture of bay...
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...
iRobot reported a third‑quarter 2025 revenue shortfall and disclosed that cash reserves have fallen below $25 million, leaving the company without immediate sources of additional capital. The decline follows years of competitive pressure from Chinese rivals, a failed Amazon acquisition, large...
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...
Wow. What an ace (free!) library for building Diffusion Language Models! 🤗 dLLM is a new open-source framework that unifies training, inference, and evaluation for diffusion-based LLMs. Unlike autoregressive models that generate text token by token, diffusion models rely on an iterative denoising...

Proton Drive, the Swiss privacy‑focused cloud service, is offering its 200 GB plan for $1.99 a month—a 60% Black Friday discount from the regular $4.99 price. The plan includes end‑to‑end encryption, automatic photo backup, secure file sharing and a 30‑day money‑back guarantee,...
What tech is used in your back office? 烙 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 tech stack,...

In this SaaStr AI episode, Jason Lemkin highlights Carta’s data showing AI engineers’ equity grants soaring up to 40% while salary growth remains modest, driven by an "AI or Die" mindset, big‑tech poaching, and perceived massive upside. He warns founders...
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 at...
AI risk isn't someone else's job. Too often, leaders assume it's the domain of IT, compliance, or data science... but the truth is, AI risk cuts across every part of the business. Brand, trust, liability, reputation are all on the line. Here are five categories...
Don't get caught up in the extremes of AI marketing! A lot of marketers are stuck in a tough spot: either avoiding AI and getting left behind or letting AI take over everything and losing the strategic edge that builds...

The article maps the emerging patchwork of U.S. state data‑privacy laws, noting that 11 states already have active statutes and five more will be effective by January 2026, forcing marketers to navigate multiple regimes. It outlines each law’s applicability thresholds and...
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...

Is AI actually driving for businesses? -- I want to hear from you in the comments. McKinsey dropped a report saying that only 39% of companies see real profit gains, while 64% say AI helps with innovation. Goldman Sachs reports average...

Radware research reveals that malicious bots are spoofing popular AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, masquerading as legitimate agents that require POST permissions for transactional actions like booking or purchasing. The rise of genuine AI agents that can...

Advances in AI and brain science provoke new debates about the nature of awareness and whether machines could ever be sentient.

Jason Lemkin argues that traditional SaaS models are collapsing because vendors are exploiting existing customers with aggressive price hikes, mandatory AI bundles, and hostile renewal tactics, turning customer success into a sales funnel. He illustrates the fallout—lost advocacy, higher churn,...

Google Gemini’s AI forecast for Amazon’s 20 best‑selling SSDs predicts only modest Black Friday 2025 price cuts, with most portable drives slipping by £10‑£20 and internal models dropping a similar amount. The SanDisk 2 TB Extreme Portable is expected to fall...

Agentic AI, which can plan and act autonomously, promises major productivity gains—Gartner forecasts 80% of routine customer‑service issues resolved without humans by 2029, cutting costs 30%—but also introduces new security risks such as indirect prompt‑injection, unchecked actions, and deep access...

Incogni, launched by VPN provider Surfshark in 2022, automates removal requests for over 420 data‑broker sites and custom requests for more than 2,000, offering a hands‑off experience, detailed request‑by‑request transparency, and four pricing tiers ranging from $16 to $30 per...

AI adoption now touches 78% of firms, yet only 25% of initiatives meet expected ROI and just 18% exceed cost of capital. IBM’s study warns that many enterprises operate on ad‑hoc "hybrid‑by‑default" architectures, leading to paused pilots and limited value,...
What's so special about today? About any Monday? It's a temporal landmark. Temporal landmarks are times when we close the door on our old selfs, with all our mistakes, missteps, and missed goals, and open the door on our new selfs — fresh...
Sir Tim Berners‑Lee, the web’s inventor, talks about his new memoir “This Is For Everyone” and his work at Inrupt on the Solid decentralization standard, warning that the web has drifted toward closed, platform‑centric ecosystems. He argues that the original...
Monday.com’s 500‑plus‑engineer organization integrated Qodo’s AI‑powered code‑review platform, which uses "context engineering" to ingest code diffs, prior discussions, documentation and test data, effectively acting as an additional developer. The tool learns from the company’s own repositories and Slack threads, surfacing...
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 Exit Five...
AI’s next frontier is Spatial Intelligence, a technology that will turn seeing into reasoning, perception into action, and imagination into creation. But what is it? Why does it matter? How do we build it? And how can we use it? Today,...

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
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....

Discover the top 50 AI tools that have garnered over 24B visits! These powerful tools are revolutionizing the way we work and interact with technology. Stay ahead of the curve and explore the cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence. Via @ingliguori #AI...
A team’s capacity to learn is its only sustainable competitive advantage.
Anyone thinking about CLI-first SaaS (headless) and want to chat?

Fundraising Best Practices Every Early Growth-Stage Founder Should Know https://t.co/fofyIRkCgZ via @TTCapPartners #PE #startups https://t.co/GKiELStcSg
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...
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
9 Ways to Build a Positive Sales Culture - https://t.co/BNTnujq9Hm - https://t.co/qgcN8JsB9k by Megan Totka
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
a really fun 2 hour chat with @kofinas where we dive into the fundamentals driving ai progress, open source, china, geopolitics, ai-first applications, the story of @airstreet and @stateofaireport and what's more to come with some philosophising along the way