AI Powers Faster, Higher‑Quality, Personalized B2B Marketing
What will the future of AI first B2B Marketing look like? I spoke to @RishiPDave from @BainandCompany on our #BeyondB2B podcast who shared: we'll drive more, faster at higher quality, more personalization, & influence is back and bigger than ever. ▶️ https://t.co/6yMFJY2Pzj https://t.co/A5fO7mO5EZ
AI Development Mirrors Toddler Learning Stages
Ai learns like toddlers https://t.co/LmasDvAlfu
OpenAI Unveils Upgraded Images Section in ChatGPT
OpenAI just rolled out a revamped “images” section in ChatGPT, and it looks pretty rad 👀 https://t.co/dtGfB36saY
Fizzy Update Streamlines Threads by Collapsing Activity
Just shipped a Fizzy update that collapses all the activity entries in a comment stream and just shows the last one. This prevents any interruption in the conversation. A single click of "Full history" reveals all the earlier ones. When Fizzy...
Customer Conversations Beat Aggregated Data Every Time
I'm collaborating with a small team at HubSpot this week on a project. I'm meeting with them tomorrow, so they sent me a Loom to view in preparation for that meeting (smart). If you can provide context async, that's an...
Explore AI's Future with Schmidt and Top Thinkers
You can read Eric Schmidt 's terrific analysis of where AI is heading: "The San Francisco Consensus", along with 20 other essays from the world's leading thinkers in volume 2 of the Digitalist Papers.
Be Rank‑Worthy, Train AI Agents Like Teammates
Did a recent podcast appearance with Rowan Cheung of "The Rundown" fame (full YouTube video in comments). Some of the ideas discussed: * The best way to be rank in Google is to be rank-worthy. The best way to get...
CES2026 Highlights Convergence of AI, Energy, Mobility, Health, Policy
#CES2026 feels different. Not about gadgets, about how AI, energy, mobility, health, and policy are converging to shape the next decade. Read my Newsletter article: ⬇️ https://t.co/69keAc3EoR via @LinkedIn @CES @CTATech @JimHarris
Our Journey Building a Robust Verification Agent
Wrote about how we built our verification/testing agent.
Claude Opus 4.5 Anticipates Intent, Pruning Unnecessary Details
Claude Opus 4.5 feels 20% more goal-oriented. Two examples from today: ➡️ I dictated a long client email, it drafted the email and say something like "yeah i went ahead and removed these 2 points because they don't support your point as...
Turn Images Into Grok Videos in 20 Seconds
Made this into a @Grok video in 20 seconds by long-pressing on the image
From SEO to AEO: AI Insights and Quirky Strategies
I don't do a lot of podcasts, but I enjoyed this conversation with @rowancheung. Covered a lot of territory, including SEO->AEO, AI (of course) and some of my quirky ways.
AI SaaS Turns Sermons Into Multi‑Channel Content, Thriving
SaaS for churches is wildly underrated. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI platform that turns a Sunday sermon into a full week of social posts, clips, emails, and discussion prompts. $275K TTM revenue $120K TTM profit 375% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/uXWpOoEZLT https://t.co/6dtcnsYY9i
Open-Source Production Code to Train Juniors and LLMs
"We need more production-grade code to teach juniors and LLMs alike. A view source that extends to the back-end along with the open source invitation to fix bugs, propose features, and run the system yourself for free." https://t.co/EOzfHImIn2
Team Adds Soul Feature to Virtual Beings
The team behind the virtual being that joined our Thanksgiving dinner has opened up the ability to add "soul" to virtual beings.
Human Partners Amplify System Success in AI Era
This is an appreciation post for Fred Jentgen . Adopting EOS as our company's operating system has been absolutely instrumental to our growth and success over the past four years. And there's no way we'd have the confidence, consistency and...
Get Top Sales, Marketing, and CS Executives Fast
Ready to find that VP of Sales, that CMO, that VP of CS you need? We'll find them for you Sign up for SaaStr Connect waitlist here -> https://t.co/bWMEWSqwAl https://t.co/73yBH4AzU8
Define Clear Questions First, Let AI Amplify Insight
Most organizations are sprinting toward “faster answers,” but almost no one stops to ask whether they posed a meaningful question in the first place. AI makes answers cheap. Priorities make answers useful. When your team treats questions as strategic assets,...
First University Talk: Turning AI Work Into Teach‑Ready Insight
I gave my first university talk this week at the University of San Diego. I was genuinely stressed. Not because the content was hard, but because it was the first time I had to turn what we do at Towards AI into...
Intuit Suite Empowers Founders to Scale Profitably
#ad Rocketship growth is an accomplishment on its own - but in order to sustain and scale it, you need to stay up-to-date with the sharpest tools available. Excited to partner with Intuit and their Enterprise Suite, helping founders better...
Decision Owners Drive Speed; Committees Kill Execution
Speed emerges when decisions have owners. It disappears when decisions have committees. Team size and sign-off count quietly define your execution ceiling.
Create Fun Images Instantly with ChatGPT
Also a very fun way to use it to easily get fun images in ChatGPT: https://t.co/sWSedwAaII
AI Agents Wear Multiple Masks—Ensure Ethics and Transparency
You compartmentalize your emotions, why not your AI? Emotionally partitioned AI agents are single AI systems that switch between different personas for regulators, customers, and internal teams, adjusting tone, priorities, and emotional style to match each audience. This makes interactions smoother...
SEO Is Foundation; AI Optimization Demands Extra Effort
Solid #SEO is the basis of GEO, or AIO, or whatever one wants to call it. But optimizing for AI requires a bit more as well.
Clarity Is the Ultimate Leverage for Inevitable Execution
Founders often search for leverage in tools, hires, or tactics. The deepest leverage is clarity. When people know exactly what matters and why, execution stops feeling heroic and starts feeling inevitable.
ChatGPT Images Now Offers Faster, Precise Editing
The new ChatGPT Images is here. More precise edits, stronger instruction following, and up to 4x faster generation, while preserving details like lighting, composition, and likeness across edits. From quick fixes to full reimaginings, it’s easier to get exactly what you have...
Get Real-Time Founder Advice Before Decisions Harden
Most advice fails for a simple reason. It shows up too late. By the time founders ask for help, the decision has already hardened. Positions are entrenched. Narratives are locked. The cost of being wrong has gone up. Uncapped Notes Live is designed...
Generative Engine Optimization Is Just B2B Snake Oil
Beware the "Generative Engine Optimization" Snake Oil - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/TVZSwDd1lo
Scale Revenue Only When Customer Success Is Predictable
If you’re looking for your moment to scale, be careful not to confuse consistent revenue creation with consistent customer success creation. They’re not the same thing. You can grow revenue fast without seeing customer success — especially in the early...
AI Agents Becoming Full‑Fledged Employees, Not Just Tools
Microsoft’s AI agents are getting… Workday HR profiles. Not metaphorically. Not conceptually. Actual HR profiles... alongside company email addresses, Teams access, and a seat next to human coworkers in the org chart. It’s the clearest signal yet that enterprises love...
Create Your Own Custom Board AI Today
Build your own @boardyai.
Benchmark Humans Against the Best Alternative, Not Averages
You should measure human capability on a task not in terms of "average human" or "random human", but in terms of your best alternative (to AI) if you were to hire a human to solve the task. Which isn't average...
Securely Share Revenue Metrics with Anyone via Link
New @metricablecom feature: Share your revenue metrics with anyone you'd like via a secure link or by inviting them as a viewer. What features should we add next? https://t.co/0NPvWj5RkG
AI's Potential to Create Original Scientific Discoveries
new on @airstreetpress: can ai generate new science? link below https://t.co/5egWvv3OPd
Weight Decay Softly Prunes Noisy Features, Not Just Simplicity
Weight decay is usually presented as “encouraging simpler solutions”, but I tend to think that the real benefit is the soft pruning of noisy / unhelpful features. Without decay, a weight can random-walk to a large value even if the...
How Companies React to Mistakes Reveals Their Priorities
You can learn a lot about a company by watching what happens after a mistake. Do people rush to explain it away, or do they slow down to understand it. One path protects egos. The other protects the future.
Build SaaStr University 2.0 Yourself with Replit
In early 2026, it will be time to rebuild SaaStr University 20,000 founders have used it to learn GTM, it’s free courses and it’s great. But it’s also time to rebuild it. So the question is: - Use existing platform - Pick a...
Pipeline Stalls when Good Ideas Are Out of Order
Most pipeline issues don’t come from bad ideas. They come from stacking good ideas in the wrong order. What we see when teams try to “keep momentum”: • More top-of-funnel before fixing demo conversion • New campaigns while stalled deals...
Founder Focus: Iterate Relentlessly Until Traction Arrives
Founders need “horse blinders.” Campfire iterated for months before hitting real traction — despite early customers. Big lesson from John Glasgow in Episode 222 of The SaaS CFO Podcast. Watch 👉 https://t.co/TSr37V0Z82 https://t.co/ldyqGESF7e
Customer Care Pays: The Numbers Prove It
The numbers behind the value of treating your customers well.
Notion's 20x Revenue Surge Yields Only 1.2x Valuation
Notion grows from $30m ARR ($10b series C) to $600m ARR today: Now considering a $12b tender offer. BUT Only 1.2x valuation increase despite 20x revenue increase? yeah tender may be common shares generally valued less than preferred (Series C)...
Open‑source Chatterbox Turbo Beats TTS Leaders on Latency
If you’re building voice agents, latency matters more than anything. For years, proprietary TTS dominated benchmarks. That’s changing. @ResembleAI’s Chatterbox Turbo is reshaping benchmarks: → Open-source → Crushes ElevenLabs & Cartesia on quality → Far lower latency 🧵↓ https://t.co/7xvyL9q65M
Novel Writing Techniques Elevate B2B Content Strategy
In 2023 and 2024, I wrote a fictional novel that never got published. But the process taught me so much (I mean so much) about storytelling—especially story setup, drama, suspense and more. I’ve since infused those lessons into B2B marketing,...
Overnight Successes Usually Take Two Years to Start
Most overnight success stories were founded at least 2 years before you’d ever heard of them Often, 2 years before they even had a paying customer
Avoid These Founder Exit Pitfalls with Goldman Sachs
In our latest episode of Vista Point Advisors ' podcast, The Path to Exit, I sat down with Sarah Letourneau from Goldman Sachs to talk about the most common pitfalls we see founders encounter when preparing for an exit. Listen...
Without Clear Narrative, Product Improvements Erode Customer Trust
Founders underestimate how much narrative work the product needs. Shipping creates change. Marketing explains change. When explanation lags, customers experience motion as noise. Confusion quietly erodes trust even when the product improves.
Agentic AI Turns Workflow Bottlenecks Into Speed
Complex deals move at the speed of their slowest workflow. One approval pauses another. One review delays the next step. Momentum fades quietly. Agentic AI introduces a new execution tempo when each step becomes computationally accessible. Velocity shifts from constraint...
AI Search Cuts Clicks, B2B Still Relies on Clicks
As AI search reduces clicks, publishers are exploring licensing and revenue sharing. Here’s what the shift means for #SEO and content strategy. https://t.co/kNgg4TbkpD via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal But is "the click economy over"? Really? Not in #B2B.
Own Your Investment
A man asked me to build his personal brand for "a small fee upfront, with more money based on the performance." But first, let me tell you about The Gym Guy. A man walks into a high-end gym and says:...
Delay VP Hires Until You Hit Double‑digit ARR
Hiring a VP of anything before double-digit ARR is a horrible move. I am a pathologically lean startup builder … And I fully believe that $1-10M ARR should be the founder(s) only. VP of Sales only at $10M+. Once you have...