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Klaviyo’s CEO on Building at $1.5B With Agents: “Dark Factory,” Composer, and Why Every Single Employee Had to Hit L3 by June
Aug 14, 2026
Klaviyo co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Bialecki came to SaaStr AI to walk through how a 2,300-person public company builds AI products. Not the vision deck. The actual build system. Klaviyo won B2B for e-commerce with one insight: instead of showing merchants how many...
Databricks Just Crossed $7B ARR Growing 80% (!): A 30-Point Acceleration, a $190B Valuation, and the Margin Bill for Agents
Aug 14, 2026
This is almost unprecedented in B2B software Databricks just announced it crossed a $7 billion revenue run-rate in Q2, growing more than 80% year over year, and closed a $5 billion strategic round at a $190 billion valuation led by Coatue....
Canva Cuts 2026 Growth by a Third, Jeff Dean Walks Out of Google, and Elon Builds His Own Fab: 20VC x SaaStr
Aug 13, 2026
The week the "AI is just a feature we'll add" argument stopped working, and three pay bands replaced two. This week on 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll, we started somewhere other than OpenAI and Anthropic for once: Canva cutting...
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Klaviyo’s CEO on Building at $1.5B With Agents: “Dark Factory,” Composer, and Why Every Single Employee Had to Hit L3 by June
By Jason Lemkin | August 14, 2026
Klaviyo co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Bialecki came to SaaStr AI to walk through how a 2,300-person public company builds AI products. Not the vision deck. The actual build system. Klaviyo won B2B for e-commerce with one insight: instead of showing merchants how many emails they sent and how many got opened, connect to the cart…
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Databricks Just Crossed $7B ARR Growing 80% (!): A 30-Point Acceleration, a $190B Valuation, and the Margin Bill for Agents
By Jason Lemkin | August 14, 2026
This is almost unprecedented in B2B software Databricks just announced it crossed a $7 billion revenue run-rate in Q2, growing more than 80% year over year, and closed a $5 billion strategic round at a $190 billion valuation led by Coatue. Today, we announced that we crossed $7B in revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year…
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Canva Cuts 2026 Growth by a Third, Jeff Dean Walks Out of Google, and Elon Builds His Own Fab: 20VC x SaaStr
By Jason Lemkin | August 13, 2026
The week the “AI is just a feature we’ll add” argument stopped working, and three pay bands replaced two. This week on 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin and Rory O’Driscoll, we started somewhere other than OpenAI and Anthropic for once: Canva cutting its 2026 growth forecast by a third as AI serving…
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Schmoozing Is Dead, Agents Are Hitting 120% of Humans, and Growth Is the Only Thing That Matters: 10 Things From the Closing Q&A at SaaStr AI Annual 2026
May 17, 2026
We just wrapped SaaStr AI Annual 2026, and the closing Q&A on Day 3 ended up being one of the most engaged of the whole gathering. No script, no prepared deck, just an hour-and-a-half of questions from the audience on the topics most on their mind....
Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales?
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Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales? The hardest rejection I’ve had in sales was around renewals. Especially ones I thought we really had earned. But still lost. In particular, in the early days of EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we had a...
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The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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Dear SaaStr: Can an Entrepreneur Back Out of a Signed Term Sheet Without Damaging Their Reputation?
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Dear SaaStr: Can an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging their reputation? In my experience — Yes, probably. As a founder, you can back out of a term sheet if something is off, or even if you just get another offer you prefer. There is a lot...


