Series B Deals Rarely Deliver 10x Returns—Pick Wisely
The latest data from @cartainc is brutal. Of 547 Series B deals in 2018: - Figma did 100x ... but - 39% are worth 1x or less - Only 34% are worth 2x or more after 7 years But - 11.7% do achieve 10x returns ... You gotta be in those ones. Even at Series B, have to pick really well
Use AI as Strategy Engine, Cut CAC 67%
Most marketers are using AI wrong. They're treating it like a content generator when it's actually a strategic intelligence engine. Here's how I cut a client's CAC by 67% 👇 1/3 #juntaedelane #digitaldelane #AIMarketing https://t.co/EpqjcpKqOZ
Meet 20‑Year‑Old AI Prodigy Outsmarting Billion‑Dollar Giants
I'm delaying sharing the videos of @blevlabs until tomorrow. They are long. In my house. An intimate look at 20 year old AI genius who has a system that I've seen over and over completely eviscerate results from multi-billion-dollar AI companies....
Software Is Shifting From Commands to Intent-Driven Collaboration
“Sora for Apps” For twenty years, software optimized what we clicked. Now it’s learning what we meant. We’re moving from tools that wait for instruction to systems that understand intent. The shift runs deeper than product design. It rewires the feedback loop...
AI-Driven Leadership Will Shape the Future Energy Landscape
What kind of leadership will define the future of energy? As we enter a decade where complexity is the new constant, I believe it’s on us, the global community of thinkers, builders, and leaders, to step up with vision, clarity, and...
AI-Driven Knowledge Graph Could Reshape X’s Feed Algorithm
How might the new X algo work? Not the shitty one we have today that's based on a bunch of hard-coded rules, but a more flexible AI-centric one? @bendiken demonstrated the other night a new kind of neurosymbolic machine intelligence. That builds...
From Salesforce to Creative Freedom: Heike Young’s B2B Evolution
What happens when one of LinkedIn's most engaging B2B creators takes us behind the scenes of her journey from Salesforce and Microsoft to charting her own creative path? In this episode of the #BeyondB2B Marketing podcast, I sat down with...
Remote Growth Marketer Needed for 2M+ AI Audience
🚨 I AM HIRING. Growth Marketer and 100% remote. You’ll own email and funnels for a 2M+ audience in AI advising and education. This is a rare opportunity - you don’t want to miss it. If you live for tests, journeys, conversion, apply...
Debunking Myths: Research-Backed Secrets of High-Performing Teams
Secrets of High-Performing Teams: Insights from Harvard Business Review https://t.co/AQeNmCtG2T via @bestcorpevents #Leadership often focuses on myths about high performance. This post exposes some of those myths and provides research-based guidance. #EQ #futureofwork https://t.co/U3ZsASMymI
Redesign Your Business Around AI, Not Just Augment It
Founder: I’ve got 35 AI agents now. They're making me 100x more productive! Me: And you’re still on Zoom calls all day??? [Founder nods.] Me: Then you’re missing the whole point of AI. Founder: What do you mean? Me: You’re trying to bend AI to...
Dedicated Knowledge Team Cuts 88% Tickets Under One Minute
Broadcom has established an entire knowledge workflow to maintain agent intelligence at scale. With this knowledge team process and a few 3P products in place, 88% of Broadcom's IT tickets are solved in under one minute. I think other businesses can...
B2B Must Offer Instant Value, Not Delayed Features
Today your B2B product has to deliver immediate "WTF" value now. Not "interesting." Not "I'll think about it." Holy Cr*p, Almost Instant Value. The old playbook of annual releases, 12-month enterprise rollouts, and quarterly webinars? Dead. 🧵Here's what's replacing it...
Great Product Doesn’t Guarantee Business
The biggest myth in tech is that great product automatically builds a great business.
Poolside's 2GW AI Factory Redefines Vertical Integration
some thoughts on @poolsideai's project horizon announcement last week: building a 2gw ai factory "This level of vertical integration - from model and agent development through to power generation and deployment - gives poolside a durable advantage as AI systems become...
Ask “Now What” For Instant AI ROI
If your friends or coworkers are still struggling with prompting or figuring out what AI can do for them, just tell them to type: Now what. Simple, powerful, easy to use, immediate ROI. Claude 4.5 and GPT-5 are powerful enough reasoning models to...
Public SaaS Stagnates; Private AI Unicorns Lead Growth
As the world follows every whisper & rumor from AI, what has happened to public SaaS? The answer is not much! All the fun is in the private markets. Multiples haven’t moved outside of a narrow band since the post-Covid crash in...
AI Marketing Startup Hits $1.15M ARR, 997% Growth
AI startups are printing cash. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI platform helping marketers maximize every dollar. Automating research, creative testing and scaling campaigns. > $1.15M ARR > $798K TTM revenue > $678K TTM profit > 997% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/jNAVKv3ABY https://t.co/GOthuI0JQl
ChatGPT Enhances Sensitive-Response Safety, Updates Model Spec
Today we shared an update about recent improvements to how ChatGPT responds in sensitive moments. We also published an update to the Model Spec to make some of our longstanding safety goals explicit. This is ongoing work and we’ll continue...
Customer Sales Feel Better than Investor Pitches
Selling to customers is so much nicer than selling to investors.
From Symbolic AI to Agents: Seven Stages of Evolution
🎯 Scaling Ascent Peak: The Seven Summits of Artificial Intelligence In my latest article, I chart the evolution of AI—from the early days of symbolic logic to today’s autonomous agents, and what lies beyond. This journey is more than a history...
Strategy Starts With Aspiration, Field, and True Advantage
Strategy isn't just a trendy term—it's about making a series of courageous, coordinated decisions. In our newest Playing to Win: Practitioners Insight, @RogerLMartin and I explore why effective strategy begins with a distinct aspiration, a strategic playing field, and a...
RPO Shows Future Revenue—Track, Grow, Storytelling
RPO reveals your future revenue. 📈 Track it. Grow it. Use it to tell a stronger story. New SaaS Metrics School episode is live 👇 https://t.co/gchRtmCwJr #SaaS #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/IIQl3eHxfb
AI Video Creation Becomes Instant and Interactive
"Instant, interactive AI video." Boom!
AI Automation Boosts Value of Handcrafted, Human-Made Experiences
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Even if a robot can cook better than Thomas Keller, you’ll still want to eat at the French Laundry, because you know Thomas Keller made the meal.” As AI floods the web with generated content, Runway (@runwayco)...
AI Agents Boost Productivity, Especially for Non‑technical Teams
My biggest takeaways from Dhanji Prasanna, CTO of @Blocks: 1. Block’s internal AI agent "Goose" is saving employees on average 8 to 10 hours per week. The company built an open-source tool called Goose that handles tasks from organizing files to...
Four Evidence-Based Strategies to Boost Team Collaboration
4 Research-Backed Ways to Help Your Team Collaborate Better - https://t.co/YlbvnyydFJ - https://t.co/1oObzNjeuR by Jay Van Basel and Laura Kriska
True Tech Expertise Requires Hands‑on Tesla FSD Experience
Good morning. Totally agree with @YunTaTsai1 below where he says robotics researchers shouldn't call themselves experts if they haven't had direct experience with @Tesla's FSD 14. In fact I'd go further. You can't call yourself a technology expert if you...
SEO Evolves Into Search Everywhere Optimization Across Platforms
SEO isn’t just about search anymore. It’s now Search Everywhere Optimization, YouTube, Reddit, LLMs, you name it. The future belongs to marketers who optimize across every platform. https://t.co/uQm5kyuki6
AI Tools Now Learn From Creators, Fueling a Creative Loop
For a decade, creation meant learning the tools. Now the tools are beginning to learn from the creators. As @billpeeb, who leads Sora at OpenAI, put it: “Seventy percent of our users are creating content even to this day, a week and a...
Skip Process‑obsessed VP of Sales Before $10M ARR
Before $10m ARR, Do not hire a VP of Sales that mainly talks about process You are too early for them
Discussing AI Report and 2025 Biotech Trends in NYC
It was such a pleasure to spend a Saturday morning with @RecursionChris recording this pod in NYC to talk about the @stateofaireport and biotech in 2025🦎 👀
2027 AI Path: Align Now or Lose Humanity
🚨 From Agent-1 to Superintelligence: The AI 2027 Scenario The AI 2027 Report outlines one of the most thought-provoking trajectories for artificial intelligence: a rapid evolution from simple assistants (Agent-1) to autonomous, adversarially misaligned systems (Agent-4) and ultimately to Agent-5 —...
Celebrating Entrepreneurs' Wins Fuels My Purpose
My favorite part of running @acquiredotcom is seeing entrepreneurs win. The founders who bootstrapped through hard months. The ones who landed their 1st customer. The ones who just sold their startup and changed their life. Every win reminds me of why this...
Extreme Pricing Wins; Middle Ground Leads to Failure
Either sell extremely expensive to a select few or sell something super cheap to everyone. The middle is where people die.
Humanoid AI Soldiers Could Redefine Future Warfare
AI-powered soldiers: Are humanoid robots the future of warfare? https://t.co/jN4Kskwjd2 #warfare #humanoidrobotics #Robot #Robotics #humanoid @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang
AI Meetups Expand to Zurich and Munich in 2026
new zurich and munich events added to the @airstreet ai meetup calendar for 2026! stopping in a city near you soon - subscribe at luma(dot)com/airstreet https://t.co/2JYV1TVNOt
WormGPT: A Chatbot That Never Refuses Hackers
Meet WormGPT: The Chatbot That Doesn’t Say “No” to Hackers! https://t.co/YEKDzS6nvS via @The420in #WormGPT #GPT #hacker #chatbots @RagusoSergio @Shi4Tech @SpirosMargaris @vinod1975
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery with Unmatched Precision
How AI is making drug discovery faster and more precise? https://t.co/UXYvnEpx1L #DrugDiscovery #drug #AI @enilev @Fisher85M @sonu_monika @Fabriziobustama
Context Engineering Supersedes RAG in Agentic AI
Is #RAG Dead? The Rise of Context Engineering and Semantic Layers for Agentic AI | Towards Data Science https://t.co/0CTp1H8711 #ContextEngineering #AI #AgenticAI #AIAgent @ingliguori @ipfconline1 @JagersbergKnut @Khulood_Almani
Enterprise AI Adoption Lags, Unlocking Massive Opportunity
While this may be a more extreme exaggeration, there is a substantial capability overhang in the form of things that AI models can do but have not been uniformly adopted for yet. When I talk to enterprises, it’s clear that most...
AI‑only Sales Outreach: A Marketing Misstep
Encouraging companies to stop hiring humans & just use AI for sales outreach instead: This marketing messaging is actually the worst.
75% Fit with Top VCs Signals Major Validation
"A 75% fit with @altosvc + @20vcFund? That's huge. It was exactly who we'd hoped for." Sign up for waitlist for SaaStr AI VC -> https://t.co/Eg5TFmnXmm https://t.co/r9Ct5KFhbP
AI Support Saves Money, Yet Still Costs Too Much
We all know how much AI has already changed customer support But it's not cheap Across all my investments in the space, the average price to resolve or reflect a ticket is about $1 For complex issues, around $5 in tokens etc That's much...
Flat ARR? The Fix Is Simpler than You Think
If your ARR is flatlining, the problem is simpler than you think..
SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking Delivers 116 Intros in Two Weeks
The new SaaStr AI VC Matchmaking tool has already made 116 VC intros in https://t.co/P5GuMbTEG9 https://t.co/RzkMeULyjI
AI Accelerates Drug Discovery Breakthroughs
AI transforming drug discovery.
Great Products Begin as Toys, Evolve Into Infrastructure
This single statement explains every great consumer product ever made: They all start as toys. Every breakout product follows the same path: Want → Need → Utility. It begins as novelty. It becomes habit. It ends as infrastructure. Once you see that curve, you start to notice...
Embodied AI Learns From Human Experiences, Not Just Data
In a few hours @IllusionOfLife is having a Holloween party in San Francisco. Mostly for kids. I'm not going. I made a bunch of videos of @okpasquale and his cofounder Kevin Fischer last week and editing them is taking longer...
Built a CRUD App in 5 Days, Now Earning Revenue
I vibe coded a simple CRUD app that is now generating a little bit of revenues using @lovable_dev. It took me about 5 days to build. Here's what it does, and how it came together...
AI Drives Structural Transformation in Transportation and Mobility
🚀 Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the future of transportation — from predictive maintenance and smart mobility, to logistics, infrastructure, and customer experience. In my latest article, I explore how AI is becoming a strategic lever for CEOs and entrepreneurs, helping organizations...