by Jason Lemkin | May 20, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
On paper, this was a strong quarter for HubSpot. Maybe not epic, but strong. HubSpot reported Q1 ’26 with revenue of $881M, up 23% … as reported. Subscription revenue alone hit $862.3M, putting ARR run-rate around $3.45B. They beat consensus by $18M....
by Jason Lemkin | May 15, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Figma reported Q1, and the results were the cleanest “beat and raise and accelerate” you’ll see all earnings season in B2B + AI. Revenue accelerated for the second quarter in a row. NDR ripped to a 2+ year high. AI monetization, which everyone on the...
by Jason Lemkin | May 11, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Monday.com (MNDY) reported Q1 2026 this morning. The stock popped 28%+ in pre-market trading. In the same week, HubSpot reported a clean beat, and the stock dropped 16%. Both companies are application-layer B2B incumbents. Both have 250K+ customers. Both have AI...
by Jason Lemkin | May 4, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Three months ago we asked if Palantir might be the greatest enterprise software company ever built. The data said the question was at least worth asking. Today the question got harder to dismiss (especially if we don’t deem Anthropic an enterprise software...
by Jason Lemkin | May 1, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So this week two of the more important bellwether names in B2B software reported earnings. And neither of them just “beat.” Both accelerated. Materially. At $7B and $5.6B+ run rates respectively. They crushed the quarter, in fact. This really matters...
by Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Coming into Q1 2026 earnings, the narrative on ServiceNow was ugly. Stock down 32% year-to-date. Trading near the $100 support level, 46% off the peak. Cramer was hedging. Seeking Alpha was calling the valuation unsustainable. The bear case had three legs: AI would...
by Jason Lemkin | Apr 15, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts
Possibly the most mispriced public B2B leader right now. Klaviyo reported its latest FY2025 results, and the numbers are genuinely top decile. It should be a hot stock: $1.234 billion in revenue for the full year Up 32% year-over-year, with Q4 alone hitting $350...
by Jason Lemkin | Apr 8, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Samsara just closed out its fiscal year 2026, and while the vertical B2B leader has always been a rocketship, it’s now showing reacceleration to 30% growth as it crosses $2 Billion in ARR. There are several reasons as we’ll dig into below, but AI is on...
by Jason Lemkin | Mar 11, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Most public B2B companies right now are either decelerating or apologizing for it. Cloudflare is doing the opposite. In Q4 2025, Cloudflare reported $614.5M in revenue, up 34% year-over-year — on top of already being a $2.4B+ ARR business. That’s not a small...
by Jason Lemkin | Mar 5, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
CrowdStrike at $5.25B ARR just posted its largest quarter of net new ARR ever — $331M, up 47% year-over-year. The first pure-play cybersecurity company to cross $5B in ARR. The first year ever above $1B in net new ARR. Record operating income, record free cash flow,...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 25, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Stripe just released its 2026 annual letter, and as always, it’s packed with data. But a lot of the letter covers stablecoins, agentic commerce protocols, and macro-economic commentary. All interesting — but let me pull out the 5 metrics that matter most if...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 19, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
A lot of people counted Figma out after the Adobe deal collapsed. And then again as the stock price fell again and again post-IPO. They were wrong. Figma just reported Q4 2025 earnings, and the numbers are genuinely remarkable — not just for a design tool company,...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 18, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Shopify remains on a total tear. The company just posted: 30% revenue growth at $11.6 billion $2 billion in free cash flow GMV accelerating to +29%, and guided Q1 to grow in the low 30s — above what Wall Street expected. They even announced a $2 billion buyback. And...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 12, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
I’ve been tracking CS Disco (NYSE: LAW) since I was the first investor in a legaltech eDiscovery competitor to it, Logikcull, way back in 2015. They IPO’d and then in 2021, and we wrote about them when they hit $120M in ARR. Back then, the stock was...
by Jason Lemkin | Feb 11, 2026 | 5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Atlassian just reported its Q2 FY26 results, and they’re fascinating on multiple levels: $6.4B+ ARR, $1.6 billion in quarterly revenue, up 23%. Atlassian is accelerating (albeit modestly) — up from 20% growth Their first-ever $1 billion cloud quarter. And...