Follow a 14‑Day PLG Roadmap to $10M ARR
Most product-led companies will never get to $10M+ ARR. But the ones that do have one thing in common. Their products sell themselves. Their conversion rates are dialed in. Their growth compounds month after month. Most importantly, they’re the obvious choice in their market because they have a winning strategy. The 14-day PLG roadmap is designed to put you on that same trajectory. Instead of guessing what might get you to $10M+, you get: ☑ Your exact roadmap to systematic scale ☑ A prioritized 30/60/90-day plan to get there ☑ Quick wins that create immediate momentum toward $10M+ ☑ Complete clarity on what separates $10M+ companies from everyone else Love the roadmap and want help implementing? We credit 100% toward working together. Last few spots available at early-adopter pricing. Link in the comments 👇
Elsevier Pioneers Decade-Long Responsible AI for Research
Elsevier has been using artificial intelligence responsibly for more than a decade to develop innovative solutions that support researchers, research decision-makers and their institutions. https://t.co/eZ56HGkCmR #AI #Research #Elsevier #ResponsibleAI
Vision Action Models Accelerate Real‑Time AI Video and Robotics
AI video is doing same as Tesla Self Driving: upgrading quickly. The robotics entrepreneurs in San Francisco told me about VLAs today. Vision Action Models. The AI can now understand the world in real time. Important for robotics. And same kind of...
Serverless Python Hits 250 MB Limit, Trim Dependencies
CURRENT STATUS: Pushing up against the Vercel 250M size limit on a serverless Python function (in my case, app.py for a Flask app). This used to be a 50M limit (which is why I hosted my Python apps elsewhere). When...
Tesla's Self-Driving Beats Waymo, Headlights Upgrade
Holy shit. @tesla Self Driving. Wow. @WholeMarsBlog was right. Even the matrix headlights improved. Waymo is way inferior. https://t.co/FpdBKQlpMB
Launching Professional Image Generation Agent – Stay Tuned
Happy Diwali! Note: I'm working on a new image generation agent built for professionals/businesses. Still early, but stay tuned.
Optimize Your Content for LLMs and AI
What is #LLMO? Optimize content for AI & large language models! https://t.co/6Jdoo8FXds #LLMs #LLM #genai #GenerativeAI #AI #artificial_intelligence #SEO #searchengine @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom @Fabriziobustama @sallyeaves @helene_wpli @ahier @rwang0 @EvanKirstel @RLDI_Lamy @Analytics_699 @Khulood_Almani...
AI Voice Boosts Ecommerce Revenue, Solving Phone Conversion Gap
Proud @saastrfund is joining the round for @Consio_AI and the team building the AI voice layer for ecommerce!! Here's why we invested: 1⃣The Obvious Problem: Phone Converts Better Every ecommerce brand knows phone calls convert 3-5x better than web. But staffing a phone...
AI-Driven VC Matchmaking for Fundable Startups Only
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....
Should Payment Processing Revenue Count Toward ARR?
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
Payment Processing Revenue Can Count as ARR When Predictable
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...
Invest in Higher CAC on Meta to Unlock Scale
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.
Launch of SuperMe: My AI Persona Powered by Pinterest Experience
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: Beyond Text Extraction with AI
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...
Describe Changes in English, Get Instant Mock-Ups
⌛️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...
We Just Nuked Our Entire AWS Account After Migrations
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...
Veo 3.1 Dominates Leaderboards with Massive Performance Gains
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
Differentiating B2B Brands in an AI‑Saturated Landscape
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
Stop SaaS Sales Leaks: 5 Revenue‑Saving Fixes
5 reasons your SaaS sales process is bleeding revenue (and how to stop it).
Fuel Your OODA Loop for AI-Driven Competition
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 Unlikely This Year; GPT‑5 Will Redefine Interaction
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...
New Paper Defines AGI by Human‑Level Cognitive Versatility
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...
Most SaaS Startups Need 2‑5 Years to Hit $1M ARR
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...
Scaling AI: Strategies for Building Intelligent Systems
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...
Make Your Site Agent-Ready with Structured Data
🤖 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...
Login Searches Reveal Hidden Growth Signals in Brand Data
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...
AI Bridges Agencies, Publishers, and Brands for Smarter Collaboration
"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."
AI Tools Multiply Productivity, Making Users Tenfold More Valuable
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...
AI Proficiency Requires Trainable Mindset, Not Just Technical Skill
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...
Stop Micro‑optimizing LinkedIn; Focus on Real Value Creation
"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...
Text Diffusion: Simple Bi‑Directional Transformer Beats Autoregression
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...
AI Isn't a Bubble, Unlike the Dot‑Com Era
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...
AI Amplifies Bad Data—Clean Foundations First
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 Brings Int4 Layerwise Quantization to Keras 3
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...
Turning Mergers Into Synergy: 1+1=3
1 + 1 = 3: Successfully Navigating Post-Merger Integrations https://t.co/Qwfo9TA8XC via @TTCapPartners #mergers #PrivateEquity https://t.co/oRsxNplE8F
Stop Spending 80% on $10 Tasks—Scale Faster
If 80% of your week is spent on $10 tasks, you’re not scaling. You’re stalling.
Usage‑Based SaaS Converts Variable Revenue Into Predictable ARR
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
Human Learning Experts Essential to Prevent AI‑Driven Gaps
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...
OpenAI's 41x Valuation Makes Sense Against $0 Rivals
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 👇
Revenue-Backed AI Valuations Beat Hype-Driven Valuations
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...
Prepare Early: BFCM Playbook to Avoid Last‑Minute Chaos
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) →...
Why Explainability Is Key to Trusting AI
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...
Early AI‑GTM Adopters Scaling Fast, Laggards Scrambling
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...
AI's Rapid Evolution Sparks Bubble Debate and Nvidia Dominance
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's 24/7 AI Sales Team Automates Lead Generation
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
More Compute Trumps All Other AI Strategies
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.
When AWS Fails, Self‑Hosting Suddenly Looks Viable
AWS is down, and for a brief, shimmering moment, self-hosting looks like a good idea. A broken clock that’s finally right.