
We’re launching something different at SaaStr AI. VC Matchmaking that actually works. Because most founders are pitching the wrong VCs. Or pitching before they’re ready. Join the waitlist → https://t.co/x5NqYcTMbt Here’s how it works: 1️⃣: You upload your pitch Real revenue. Real metrics. Real traction. We need to see the results, not just the vision. 2️⃣: Our AI reviews your deck WITH you Not for you. With you. We’ll break down what’s working, what’s not, and what top VCs actually want to see at your stage. 3️⃣: If you’re fundable right now, we match you with the RIGHT VCs Not a spray-and-pray list. Not “here are 500 VCs.” The specific funds that invest in your stage, your space, your business model. That are a true fit. With direct fund access. 🤏 And if you’re not fundable yet? We’ll tell you exactly why. No BS. No sugar-coating. Then we’ll help you get there. Because raising before you’re ready burns bridges you can’t rebuild. 💸 If you’ve got the metrics, the story, and the timing? We’ll get you in front of the funds that matter. This is about quality over quantity. Strategy over spray-and-pray. Waitlist open now -> https://t.co/x5NqYcTMbt

Can I count payment processing revenue as ARR? The next edition of the SaaS Metrics School podcast drops at 5am PT on Tuesday. https://t.co/a1PSYVb3ph https://t.co/2XzN1uUI1O
Tech CFOs have been asking a great question lately. Can payment processing revenue be counted as ARR? Let's break it down. When your SaaS or AI platform allows customers to transact (e.g., collect payments) and you receive a percentage of that payment volume...
PSA: Pay the highest CaC possible on Meta. The higher the CaC you can afford you to pay the more scale you'll achieve. Growth comes from a majority of things happening OUTSIDE of the ad account.
For years, I've loved writing and talking about building enduring social products, marketplaces, and AI, not to mention the lessons learned from building at Pinterest. You've asked questions, debated ideas, and pushed me to unpack complex frameworks. Now, I'm playing...
DeepSeek OCR, More Than OCR! https://t.co/pIoCgsugxO #OCR #deepseek #deepseekocr #LLMs #genai #AI #GenerativeAI #artificial_intelligence @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves @LaurentAlaus @Fabriziobustama @smaksked @MargaretSiegien @PawlowskiMario @gvalan @Ym78200 @mikeflache...

⌛️Tired of telling your designer what changes you want ... and waiting? 😠 Or your dev team never quite understanding what you want the site to really look like? Just vibe it. Tell @alloy_app what changes you want made to your...
I swear we didn't plan this, but just today, we finally NUKED our entire AWS account at the 37signals company meetup! This followed moving out compute+dbs in 2023, then S3 this summer, and now finally the entire account is GONE...
Awesome to see Veo 3.1 top the LMArena video leaderboards by a large distance with big improvements over Veo 3.0 for text-to-video (+30) and image-to-video (+70)! 🔥Huge congrats to the team! Try it for yourself in https://t.co/QgTpxTL8DQ and the @GeminiApp

When every marketer has AI in their toolbox, how will any B2B brand stand out? Get the answer from this post co-created with 14 top marketing pros from the B2B marketing community https://t.co/Q5cv8ECkh0 via @toprank b2b marketing blog https://t.co/D3YmObQEpt
5 reasons your SaaS sales process is bleeding revenue (and how to stop it).
Quick insights on OODAcon and how we will help add jet fuel to your OODA Loop, with @junaidislam. Bottom line: This is about ensuring you are ready to orient yourself to compete and win in the new AI enabled world....
GPT-6 by the end of the year? "And honestly, I don't think it's going to be happening. It would be very weird to have this massive launch GPT5 really a fundamental shift in the way users interact with chat GPT...
What even is AGI anymore? A new paper attempts to define it. "So our definition of AGI is an AI that can match or exceed the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult. To measure this, we assess multiple...
Kyle Poyar just analyzed new data from 6,525 SaaS startups and it's WILD. Only 3.3% reach $1 million ARR in less than a year from first revenue. And just 1-in-1000 reach $10 million in less than a year!! Thats not what...
How do you build AI systems that scale? On Nov 12 in SF, I’ll host Calvin French-Owen (Co-founder & former CTO @Segment, led @OpenAI's Codex launch) for a Theory Ventures Office Hours conversation on scaling intelligent systems. We’ll dig into: ⚙️ Building...
烙 Your website looks great — too bad robots can't read it AI agents buy and recommend based on structured, trusted, real-time data, not pretty pixels. Check out how some tips on how to get your site agent-ready: #AI #DataLayer #Tealium...
Not all brand search is related to buyer interest, but also contains search from customers, potential employees, etc, and trends in that data might tell us a lot about how the category and brand are performing. For example, in a typical...
"AI doesn’t replace publishers, brands or agencies, but it can connect them more intelligently. Collaboration is key. Agencies bring strategy. Publishers offer premium environments. Brands drive creative. And AI acts as the bridge between them."
ClickFlow (my internal AI-powered SEO tool) used to save 20 hours per person each month, now it saves 55 hours. Those who master and implement AI tools, agents, and workflows aren’t 10% better, they’re 10× more valuable. And those who don’t will...
Most leaders assume technical competence = AI proficiency. Wrong - it's a separate, trainable skill that needs explicit development across the org. And some people are primed for that mindset. Our AI courses have trained hundreds of thousands of business professionals...
"What's the best time to post to LinkedIn? And should you edit a post after you publish it?" Been thinking a lot about how so many entrepreneurs and creators focus on the wrong things: things that only matter if you...
Nice, short post illustrating how simple text (discrete) diffusion can be. Diffusion (i.e. parallel, iterated denoising, top) is the pervasive generative paradigm in image/video, but autoregression (i.e. go left to right bottom) is the dominant paradigm in text. For audio I've...

this time last year post-@stateofaireport we heard lots of “is ai a bubble” chatter, just like we do today we wrote a piece on @airstreetpress arguing that ai is not like the dot com thinking of writing up a v2...
Most teams dream of using AI to save them from complexity. The dashboards, the messy reports and the endless debates over numbers. Everyone wants a magic switch. The reality is less cinematic. AI doesn’t clean up the mess for you. It...

GPTQ is a post-training, weights-only quantization method that compresses a model to int4 layer by layer. For each layer, it uses a second-order method to update weights while minimizing the error on a calibration dataset. It comes built-in in Keras 3...

1 + 1 = 3: Successfully Navigating Post-Merger Integrations https://t.co/Qwfo9TA8XC via @TTCapPartners #mergers #PrivateEquity https://t.co/oRsxNplE8F
If 80% of your week is spent on $10 tasks, you’re not scaling. You’re stalling.

How do usage-based SaaS companies turn variable revenue into ARR? 💡 Learn how Confluent & Datadog do it — and why ARR is now every SaaS CFO’s North Star. 🎥 Watch: https://t.co/Uhfxk5xwJi #SaaS #ARR #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/EzQoU3sl3i
Key quote: "Learning professionals still need to develop and guide program strategy, oversee content accuracy, ensure that learners receive the right type of instructional support, and achieve the desired business outcomes. Without this essential human layer, #AI could expand performance...

Machines Lab at $12B at $0 revenue. OpenAI at $500B but with $12B in real revenue. Why OpenAI's 41x doesn’t look so crazy anymore 👇
Machines Lab at $12B at $0 revenue. OpenAI at $500B but with $12B in real revenue. Why OpenAI's 41x doesn't look so crazy anymore Valuation without revenue is just a story. This chart makes it clear that the AI market has split in...
BFCM is just 39 days away. If you're like any of the brands that fail to prep properly, you'll end up with: → Campaigns rushed with no testing → Ads competing for attention (but not optimized for peak CPMs) → Offers launched without proper...
Excited to announce the next session in my Smart SaaSy Webinar Series — "The Black Box Problem: Do We Need to Understand How AI Works to Trust It?" I'll be joined by Dr. Eva-Marie Müller-Stüler — global AI & data science leader,...
It's time. 🏃♀️It's time to get ahead of the pack in AI + B2B. At SaaStr AI London Dec 1-2 -> https://t.co/ufOgU4yrs6 The companies that figured out AI + GTM this year already are now scaling aggressively—closing bigger deals, reducing...
got to chat about the @stateofaireport on @tbpn last fri w/@johncoogan @jordihays, incl. bits on financing dynamics, how today's ai is magical vs. 12 years ago when i started, ai bubble (yes, no?), nvidia's dominance, ai search/agent experience, industrial policy...

AppSumo Team built a 24/7 Sales team. Insane. 🤯 1- Give it your ideal customer 2- Scrapes entire web 3- Qualifies the lead 4- Helps setup outreach https://t.co/VSukyBndPk
Without checking, what is the message behind the "Bitter Lesson", in your opinion? (a) all other things being equal, using more compute is better. (b) more compute is better than all the other things put together.
AWS is down, and for a brief, shimmering moment, self-hosting looks like a good idea. A broken clock that’s finally right.
What if you could turn any signal into a meeting in minutes? That's the level of GenAI efficiency we're unlocking — where insights don't just inform action, they become action. I'll be sharing exactly how this is possible during my...
Most founders waste time trying to look like they have traction. When traction’s real, you don’t need to choreograph it. It shows up when people return, pay again, and bring their friends. Customers end up doing the advertising for you.
What do Levi Jeans, data centers, the construction industry and dirty Waymo cars have in common? Turns out quite a bit! Check out this snippet from last Friday's Coffee with Brent Adamson and Matt episode.
"From delivery to insight - absolutely phenomenal." That's how one attendee described a recent presentation I did. And now 2026 is coming up fast! Want your conference/event audience to be entertained…inspired … and leave with surprising yet easy to use tactics that...
ChatGPT Danger: 5 Things You Should Never Tell The AI Bot Protect yourself and your privacy. Here are five sensitive things you should avoid sharing with ChatGPT or any conversational AI. Read more https://lnkd.in/eD2ARRhq #ChatGPT #Privacy #AIUsage #BernardMarr

🔗 Mixture of Experts (MoE): https://t.co/3CGjgO4H9p https://t.co/QA12nBeW0i
How you frame an offer matters: What people need often isn’t what they want They want new opportunities > new tactics > new channels > new business models But they often *need* optimization Do more of what’s working, better Your play? Sometimes you’ve got to sell...