Simple Strategies Win; Complex Decks Signal Trouble
If your strategy fits on a napkin, it's probably good. If it needs a 40-slide deck, it's probably broken.
30‑Minute Vetting: Score Deals Before Selling
"I should be able to leave that meeting and say, I know on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely this is to be a real sales opportunity." Meet Jennifer Dulski, CEO of Rising Team. Rising Team has been...
Aim for Lasting Resonance, Not Fleeting Virality
Don’t try to go viral, try to be remembered. Every post, every ad, every email, aim for resonance with your audience. Ask: • Did this make them trust us more? • Did this change how someone thinks? • Did this feel like it came from...
AI’s Rapid Growth Outpaces Data Center Energy Capacity
🔥 What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom 🔥 AI is scaling fast. Energy systems aren’t. Why this matters (and what’s next). ✅ Read my article: https://t.co/xQJPxsWnIu #AI #Sustainability #EnergyTransition...
VC Returns Collapse: Only 7% of Deals Hit 3x
Yes, M&A is back. More deals are getting done. But per @SiliconVlyBank, VCs make 3x or more their money on just 7% of them That’s way, way down from 22% in 2021, and even 15% in 2019 https://t.co/5oeZOGTpNr
30‑Minute Vetting Rule: Rate Sales Opportunities Instantly
"I should be able to leave that meeting and say, I know on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely this is to be a real sales opportunity." Meet Jennifer Dulski , CEO of Rising Team . Rising Team...
Scale Yourself: Leadership Lessons for Hyper‑Growth
“I like being scared” Molly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg , Chamath Palihapitiya , Sheryl Sandberg , and Bret Taylor . She’s best known for her “Give away your Legos” framework and...
15-Step AI Learning Roadmap Simplifies Your Upskilling Journey
Learning AI can feel overwhelming — but when you break it down into clear, structured steps, the journey becomes achievable. This infographic captures a powerful 15-step roadmap, from foundations in math and programming to ML/DL fundamentals, NLP, RL, cloud deployment,...
Buyers Prioritize A‑Grade SaaS Deals Over Volume
It’s not deal volume—it's deal quality. Buyers want A-grade SaaS assets. B & C deals are stalling, valuations remain disciplined, and many founders decided 2025 wasn’t the year to sell. 🎙️ New SaaS CFO Podcast w/ Jim Williams ▶️ https://t.co/qRnBVxuCM5 https://t.co/gC773j9VyT
Ask VCs Their Investment Odds to Save Time
It's totally OK to ask a VC at the end of a pitch meeting, "Based on what you know now, what are the odds you'd invest?" In fact, it can save a lot of time
Clean P&L: Your Ticket to Premium M&A Exit
Founders often focus on the product and the growth, but in the world of M&A, a premium exit starts with your books. For sophisticated buyers, clean financials are virtually mandatory. If a founder can't produce a clean P&L on demand, it...
AI Expands Productivity Frontier; New Skills Required
AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines. Source @McKinsey Link https://t.co/Ej5vRN7zb4 via @antgrasso #AI #AgenticAI #Robots https://t.co/76sesFnorZ
Build Pillar Pages for Topical Authority and Rankings
If your traffic is dropping even though your SEO looks clean — this is probably why: Google’s AI isn’t just checking if you mention the keyword. It’s checking if you understand the topic. Here’s the fix: Build topical depth. Create...
Afternoon Hours Drive Highest Ecommerce Conversions
Here's how time of day affects sales and conversions. This data is from 200 ecommerce sites. https://t.co/gfiaDa6Pmb
Master Human Psychology, Not Algorithms, for Sustainable Success
Study humans (not algorithms) Platforms change Tactics get copied Stuff stops working But basic human psychology? That shifts at glacial speed When you understand the timeless principles of attention and trust, algorithm updates won’t kill you You can always adapt and win
Open Data: Strategic Edge for Innovation and Competition
Beyond its public value, open data reveals itself as a strategic layer for modern enterprises, where its thoughtful integration fuels informed innovation and shapes a more collaborative, intelligence-driven approach to market competitiveness. #OpenData #BusinessIntelligence #AI
Hospitality SaaS Drives 20% Revenue Boost for Hotels
Vertical SaaS is crushing it! Live on @acquiredotcom: Hospitality SaaS helping hotels grow revenue by 20%+ through dynamic pricing and channel optimization. > $650K ARR > $675K TTM revenue > 250+ hotels using it Full listing: https://t.co/X1PgOV91Xs https://t.co/sz6jjMyyPV
Agency Success Depends More on People Than Metrics
99% of being a successful agency owner is managing people and expectations. A majority of agencies out there can all fulfill the work. What sets great agencies apart is their ability to work with people (hiring, growing, retaining) and communicate well...
Virality Happens When Frictionless Products Delight Users
If you could engineer virality with a product, every single person would copy it, and it would stop working. The only real way to create the infinite loop of virality with a technology product is to focus on removing all...
Human Expertise Still Beats AI in Content Creation
AI and software will not solve all of your content production problems. Human Expertise Still Wins: The Real Story Behind Scalable Content AI tools promise instant content at scale, but the truth behind the scenes is far less simple. Software...
Leaders Must Deploy AI Agents Themselves, Not Outsource
"#1 advice for sales and marketing leaders: deploy an AI agent yourself. Don't hire an agency. Don't tell someone on your team to do it. Deploy an AI agent into production, for real, yourself." with @lennysan "For junior sales...
Unmatched Cross‑platform UX Keeps Users Returning
ive cancelled my chatgpt subscription many time. unfortunately, there is no other app that matches the ux of chatgpt app on phone, web and mac. thats the only reason i keep coming back. google can do better. dunno why they...
Invite: Suggest Topics for Deep AI Podcast
Doing a long, super-technical podcast on the state-of-the-art in AI. Let me know if you have question, topic suggestions. Everything from details of LLM training pipeline & architectures, to coding, robotics, scaling, compute, business, geopolitics, etc. Besides topics & questions......
AI Agents Transform Chatbots Into Goal‑Oriented Executors
AI Agent = AI that reasons + plans + uses tools + acts to hit a goal. Loop: goal → sense → plan → tool use → act → eval → memory → improve. Core parts: system prompt, tools/APIs, short- & long-term...
Accuracy Isn’t Enough: Prioritize Relevance, Grounding, Faithfulness
Accuracy is a terrible metric for LLMs. And it’s the reason many AI demos look great but fall apart in real usage. LLMs don’t usually fail by being wrong. They fail by being: irrelevant ungrounded confidently misleading An answer can be “accurate” in isolation and still be useless...
Turn Claude Code Into Your Chief of Staff
executives, managers of people, managers of process, managers of agents… get Claude Code to be your chief of staff by organizing a repo around everything you do and find ways to make it better and make it clearly documented
Pick Vendors Who Actually Deploy Your AI Agents
So we have 20+ AI Agents running SaaStr now What criteria did we use for which vendors to pick? 👉 We picked the ones that helped us the most. Not the ones with sales folks that wanted to “get on a call” Not the...
AI Is a Multi‑Layered Stack, Not Just ChatGPT
Most people see only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI — tools like ChatGPT, generative models, and digital assistants. But beneath the surface lies a far deeper ecosystem: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Computer Vision,...
AI Masters Human Tools Faster than We Build AI Tools
ai seems to have gotten better at using tools made for humans faster than we’ve been able to create tools specifically for them it’s unclear why you would build an MCP (helpful only for agents) instead of a CLI tool...
Usage vs Subscription: Revenue Quality Drives Buyer Decisions
Subscription vs. usage-based revenue isn’t just a pricing debate—it’s a revenue quality question. Buyers are digging deeper into how usage models impact retention, predictability, and valuation—and the jury’s still out. ▶️ https://t.co/qRnBVxuCM5 https://t.co/woliqJLsLP
Authenticity Beats Polish: Keep Videos Naturally Human
Videos fall apart when they’re over-planned. Perfect wording kills energy. Presence beats polish. 👉 Have a clear point, then speak like a human. The content that connects most rarely sounds scripted... it sounds natural. https://t.co/K0VEDYs8xn
Leverage Loss Aversion: People Fear Loss Twice As Much
New Year’s resolutions. Black Friday sales. Everyone’s doing it. And we don’t want to miss out. That’s one form of Loss Aversion. The truth is, we feel losses twice as powerfully as gains. So we are more motivated to avoid...
Scale Faster by Doing Less, Not More
The internet will convince you to keep scaling. More ads, offers, tools, everything. But what your next growth spurt comes from doing less, better? • Tighter ops. • Fewer tools. • Simpler flows. • Clearer offers. The cleanest businesses scale best, and they’re almost never the loudest...
AI Transforms Energy Utilities with Optimized Operations
AI applications have the capacity to revolutionise the way we produce & consume energy Today AI is helping power utilities optimise operations like equipment maintenance & replacements, as well improving fault prevention & detection More 👉 https://t.co/j1qWzqgCEL @IEA #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G
Delay Sale, Build Predictable SaaS for Higher Valuation
When Samuel Abebe built @SpeakerSplit, it was just a side project to solve his own audio editing headaches. He had early offers to sell, but he did a counterintuitive thing: He said no. By waiting, he transformed a "utility tool" into...
Confidential Computing Secures Data Across Cloud and AI
Confidential computing strengthens data protection by using secure enclaves, encryption in use, hardware isolation and trusted verification, supporting private processing across cloud and AI environments through shared standards and alignment. Microblog @antgrasso #CloudSecurity https://t.co/dM7JbmMHpL
LLMs Still Struggle with Reasoning, Knowledge, Understanding, Planning
Four important limitations of LLMs: 1. Reasoning 2. Knowledge or expertise 3. Understanding 4. Planning and execution Learn more: https://t.co/qs7PYuNc2I @mitsmr #CES2026 #AI #IoT #5G https://t.co/v9NlLkpAHe
Gemma AI Uncovers Promising Cancer Therapy Pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkR5m @GoogleDeepMind #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare https://t.co/Surif36HUQ
AI Demystified: From Neural Networks to Deep Learning
Peeling back the layers of AI! This infographic unravels the complex world from Neural Networks to Deep Learning. Dive deeper into AI with the insights from @ingliguori's 'The Digital Edge' 👉 https://t.co/Nrh6BBTRcF #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/2q6oTZuXqE
Proof of Authority Beats Great Content Every Time
Great content isn’t enough anymore. Average content from someone with authority will outperform amazing content from someone unknown almost every time. Humans trust authority and Google’s AI reflects that. It surfaces people who look credible because that reduces risk for...
5G, IoT, and Agentic AI Make Networks Self‑Thinking
Connectivity is no longer about linking devices, it’s about linking intelligence. When 5G, IoT, and Agentic AI converge, networks start thinking for themselves. 👉 https://t.co/95n8oVHSQl #AI #5G #IoT #CES2026 https://t.co/gVoKrcY9Zr
Marketing Budgets Surge, Signaling 2026 Economic Confidence
The economy may feel like crap, but marketing is typically a leading indicator of where things are going. When companies are more confident, they increase their budgets. Which is exactly what’s happening in 2026. https://t.co/2ZZxcnmJ22
Image Segmentation: Masks, Labels, and Pseudocolor Visualization
Image segmentation = dividing an image into pixel groups (regions). A segmentation model takes an image and outputs segments, usually as masks (more common than contours). In masks, each segment gets a different grayscale label, and we often use pseudocoloring to visualize...
Neuralink Could Restore Full Body Functionality, Says Expert
I am confident at this point that restoring full body functionality is possible with @neuralink
2026: Pragmatic AI—Define, Demystify, Deliver Real Value
As 2026 begins, I’m setting a few simple goals for myself. No reinvention. No pivots for the sake of noise. Just a continuation of work that’s mattered to me for the last decade. Demystify. AI, automation, and agents don’t need...
Target the Moment, Not Just the Market
Smart marketers don't just target specific markets They target specific *moments*—the moment that makes buyers say “I need this now” Find your target moments, win
PyTorch's 64‑bit Index Standard Simplifies Development
Pytorch made the right call standardizing on signed 64 bit indexes. I would probably still be rather pointlessly making case by case decisions to use int32 if it were an option. Some old habits linger.
Spice up Uncertain Content Plans with S.A.U.C.E.
When you’re not sure if your current content plan is working… Put some S.A.U.C.E. on it. https://t.co/5bXMu54dxn
AI Enables Anyone to Build Million‑Use Apps—Work Remains Hard
"This is the most exciting time in our lives to build software" with @lennysan "I can't even code and I've built 12 apps on @Replit that have been used almost 1,000,000 times. And we run an eight figure business with 2...
Master These B2B Skills to Stand Out Amid AI
When Every Marketer Has AI, How Does Any Brand Stand Out? Here are the Top B2B Marketing Skills to Differentiate https://t.co/Q5cv8ECkh0 https://t.co/JFn65z5bc4