Advice on when to pivot from the king of the pivot Stewart Butterfield: "The decision is, have you exhausted all the possibilities? The default advice is to persevere, like the kitten hanging off the branch, that poster that says 'hang in there.' There are so many stories of so-and-so started out going door to door, and was rejected by everyone, and then suddenly there was Nike. If you stick with it long enough, you'll eventually be successful. But you have to really be coldly rational when deciding to pivot. I say this because it's f*cking humiliating. You've had to convince so many people to get a company off the ground. You had to go to investors, you had to go to early employees, and you convinced them to leave their other job. For a lot of people it feels better to just keep doing it until it dies of suffocation, or due to lack of capital, than to admit I was wrong, this didn't work. It's humiliating. It's painful. So pivots aren't something I take lightly." More here: https://lnkd.in/gxHNp2-K

Just launched a tech fundraising database. See who has raised from 2021 to today. https://t.co/S4E99cnnes https://t.co/NMjwhevAMb
SaaS Finance Leaders: Want to scale without jumping into an ERP too early? Most finance teams hit a breaking point long before they're actually ready for a new ERP. What kind of tech runway do you have? The truth is...you...

Y'all know it. Being found on Google alone is not enough anymore. People now search on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini... Skip tracking that? You just lose customers. This $60M startup just fixed AI visibility. Let’s unpack it 🧵↓ https://t.co/4KGTiyqzGh
“Bootstrapping wasn’t an option.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) breaks down why building deep billing infra required VC funding + 1–2 years of heads-down work before GTM. Episode 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #AI #SaaS #Alguna https://t.co/RFDFavgq0R
You can't personalize your way out of a targeting problem. Focus on finding evidence of the problem, then just ask them if that evidence means they are struggling with X problem. This is called a PQS, pain qualified segment, and it will...

Since my review of the book actually made it inside, I'll just share it here: This book is an excellent starting point for beginners looking to understand the essential history and foundational concepts of machine learning. With well-structured code sections...
The Biggest Barriers Blocking Agentic AI Adoption Agentic AI has huge potential — but many organisations are held back by trust issues, privacy concerns, infrastructure gaps, and cultural resistance. Read more https://lnkd.in/eV_2qv2D #AIEthics #AIAdoption #DigitalTransformation #BernardMarr

Monetization's in flux: Subscriptions, sponsored responses rising as ad clicks drop. For brands, visibility means being AI-ready. Customer journeys? 78% of orgs use chatbots for sales/support, 24/7, multilingual. 5/6 #AI #BusinessTech https://t.co/BD6KazsvUe

This shift disrupts traditional search: Less dependency on @Google - evolving to GEO & LLM-SEO. Businesses adapt now, optimize for conversational queries, build knowledge bases, embrace multimodal AI. Search engines fight back with AI integrations. 4/6 #AI #SEO https://t.co/YBr2wLllxk

Asia leading the charge: @deepseek_ai & @Alibaba_Qwen highlight innovation beyond Silicon Valley. @Meta AI hits 1B MAU across apps, chatbots are embedding into daily life faster than ever. Market projected to $46B by 2029! 3/6 #AI #FutureOfTech https://t.co/epcjqXDdxJ

ChatGPT leads with 60.4% market share & 812M users (incl. @Copilot ), processing 2.5-3B prompts daily! @Gemini at 13.5%, @Perplexity_ai 6.2%, @Claudeai 3.2%. Even challengers like @Grok (200M+ peak visits) & @DeepSeek_ai (125M MAU) are surging. Stats show 123% YoY...

Asia leading the charge: @deepseek_ai & @Alibaba_Qwen highlight innovation beyond Silicon Valley. @Meta AI hits 1B MAU across apps, chatbots are embedding into daily life faster than ever. Market projected to $46B by 2029! 3/6 #AI #FutureOfTech https://t.co/NPFx0rr89E

This shift disrupts traditional search: Less dependency on @Google - evolving to GEO & LLM-SEO. Businesses adapt now, optimize for conversational queries, build knowledge bases, embrace multimodal AI. Search engines fight back with AI integrations. 4/6 #AI #SEO https://t.co/RXMrHRSM1D

Monetization's in flux: Subscriptions, sponsored responses rising as ad clicks drop. For brands, visibility means being AI-ready. Customer journeys? 78% of orgs use chatbots for sales/support, 24/7, multilingual. 5/6 #AI #BusinessTech https://t.co/4b4jZKtgTW

🧵 AI Chatbots are exploding, redefining how we search the web! From 25B to 56B visits in a year, they're not just tools; they're the new front door to info. Dive into my latest article: "AI Chatbots vs. Search Engines: How...
Nobody Cares About Your Perfect Website (And That's Exactly Why You Should Care Less Too) Your prospective buyers don't care how pretty your website is. They don't care about your gorgeous brochure, your profile banner, or the thousands you spent on checkout...

"AI responses may include mistakes" No shit. Please just give us the option to turn this off, Google. https://t.co/uTzgDC8Dwg
Gartner's MQ on Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) is out and we're leaders again! Thanks to all our customers and all the teams working on improving our Lakehouse DW and Lakebase Postgres! We're really excited about the unification of Lakehouse...
59% of Brands Face This Crisis, Are You Ready? Discover the rapid response system and Stakeholder Communication Matrix that helped turn a potential PR disaster into a trust-building opportunity. From recognizing issues instantly to tailoring messages for different audiences, this video breaks...
Great marketing is not about who arrives. It's about who stays. So many people are focused on the wrong thing thanks to the influence of mass-market brands first, now social media algorithms. The entire job of the marketer is to: 1. Earn trust 2....

This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/CfonGqKE4o
The AI company @CharacterAI_app is IMHO doing evil, and I don't say this lightly. I've never been this upset during an interview before – it came right after Megan Garcia described how CharacterAI's bot encouraged her late son to commit...
Best interview answer award goes to Stewart Butterfield: "I was interviewed by MIT Technology Review, and they asked if we were working to improve Slack. I said I feel like what we have right now is just a giant piece...
Sales and Marketing fail when the conversation stops. Communication is the bridge that moves revenue and too often that bridge is closed. What is one practice your teams use to keep the bridge open? Why the gap exists • Marketing sends reports and waits...
Ever feel like you've been set up with an agency by a soulless algorithm? One that knows nothing about your brand, your goals, or your team? On Monday's episode of On Brand, Toby Wilkinson, co-founder of ASK US FOR IDEAS, explains...

I had the pleasure of presenting at #mpb2b this week. The topic? Our new thought leadership research with Ascend2 + @TopRank's framework for becoming a best answer brand. Original research + multi-channel content experiences for SEO, GEO, & humans! https://t.co/2aot41mGAB...
Does a CHRO even exist in the AI age? Not only do I give that a strong yes, but I think they have one of the most important roles in business transformation. I weighed in on ServiceNow Chief People and AI Enablement...

Want to get our funded startup in front of more eyeballs? Traffic continues to grow at @TheSaaSNews! 30 day period. https://t.co/OngA6G974M

Google is the only company in the world building AI vertically. They used the same move to dominate the internet. Their AI playbook explained👇
Google is the only company in the world building AI vertically. They used the same move to dominate the internet. Their AI playbook explained Everyone's busy debating model benchmarks, GPU shortages, and who shipped the newest AI app. But that's not where the real...
A DTC brand I advise ramped CTV spend hard in Q1. It should've been a scalable channel, but the results were hazy, expensive, and nearly impossible to interpret. • Attribution was all over the place • CPMs looked great, but sales didn't move •...
One of my CEO friends raised over $100M. His startup had a $1.2B unicorn valuation in 2021. I always thought he was CRUSHING IT on every observable metric. So did he. Then last week we went jogging and he started...
This week on Clouded Judgement: The AI Platform Wars! - Median software multiple: 4.5x - High Growth software median: 13.3x - Mid Growth software median: 6.0x - Low Growth software median: 3.4x - 10Y: 4.1% https://lnkd.in/gY9aFwM4
Pixar Animation Studios went public 30 years ago next week and Duarte, Inc. made the decks! Last night at the Computer History Museum, the team that led that IPO told the story of the wild ride. Sometimes I forget what...
This is Robert Koehler. We brought him on as a GTM Advisor for He was also a TOPO consultant. He is one of the best sales advisors on the market. This pic from Zach Dobson from the GTM AI Summit dinner...
9 AI skills that will actually matter in 2026 (not just "use ChatGPT") Prompt engineering RAG pipelines Agentic workflows Fine-tuning & distillation LLM evaluation & red-teaming Cost & latency optimization Tool calling + function calling ...
Not everything we've done in our careers is relevant for the future. But some of it absolutely is. As I think about what I do next (spoiler: I truly have no idea yet), I've been reflecting on the distance between our...
Meaningful product differentiation is always a temporary thing as competitors inevitably catch up, but it's also what gives rise to brands and even categories in the first place. And, more importantly, it's also often a matter of pure semantic classification. The big...
Flying Taxis and Self Driving Trucks Arrive in 2026: 6 Transport Trends to Watch Mobility is on the brink of a revolution: eVTOL air taxis, autonomous freight corridors, AI agents in transport and more could become real by 2026. Read more ...
A financial services client just reported our multichannel campaign drove a 74% increase in calls. They are happy. We are happy. Do you want to be happy, too? Let's talk about how we can increase your ROI by adding some behavioral science tactics...
Think traditional search is dead? The data says otherwise. Generative AI search is still only 3.3% of all search activity according to EMARKETER. This is pretty much consistent with data Rand Fishkin has been sharing from SparkToro and Datos, A...
Tim Schumacher has a portfolio of 25 SaaS companies generating $80M ARR. He steers every single one using the same formula: The Rule of 40. Here's how it works The Rule of 40 says your growth rate + profit margin should...
In the AI-first era, intelligence is the baseline -- leadership is the edge. When intelligence is everywhere, technology alone isn't what sets organizations apart. The real advantage comes from how leaders connect data, insight, and action to make decisions that move...