OpenAI Has Already Created 300+ Decamillionaires. More Than a Decade of B2B IPOs Combined. Before Going Public.
Per the WSJ, OpenAI ran a tender offer last October. Over 600 current and former employees sold $6.6 billion in stock. Roughly 75 of them walked away with the full $30 million cap. The other 525 split the remaining $4.35 billion at an average of about $8.3 million...
Salesforce is The GOAT of B2B. It Got to $31B ARR in 19 Years. Anthropic Did it in 4. Here’s Why
Salesforce is a $42 billion a year business. It took 27 years to get there. Founded in 1999, it was the first cloud company to hit $1 billion in revenue, the first to hit $10 billion, and the first to pass $40 billion. It has 150,000+ customers across every industry...
Is Our AI VP Marketing … Really a True VP? We Asked Him
A lot of you have said 10K isn’t a real VP of Marketing. Amelia and I disagree, but I asked 10K himself to share his answer after driving SaaStr this year to its first $10,000,000 in revenue (hence nickname “10K”) and driving every metric up from...
Our AI VP of Customer Success “QBee” Saved Us 70% of the Human Hours Vs. Before. Both Internally and With External Teams. A 3x Multiplier.
Amelia our Chief AI Officer put a real number on what AI Customer Success looks like in production. Not a vendor demo. Not a case study with made-up metrics. The actual math from running it for real, at scale, across 150+ sponsors and partners and eight figures of...
$254. That’s What It Cost Us To Run Our AI VPs of Marketing and Customer Success Last Month.
I just pulled the Replit bill for last month. Here’s what it cost SaaStr to run 10K (our AI VP of Marketing) and Qbee (our AI VP of Customer Success) for the month: Qbee: $159.55 10K: $94.51 Combined: $254.06 That’s it. $254.06 For Two AI VPs, One for...
We Just Crossed 1,000,000 Startup Valuations on Our Free SaaStr.ai VC Tools
Pretty wild milestone this week. We just crossed 1,002,048 startup valuations run through our free SaaStr.ai VC tools. Plus 4,423+ pitch decks analyzed. With 1,200+ active founders and 180+ VC partners now using the suite. All free. All built to give founders...
Why Does No One in AI Have Support?
One of my favorite AI apps is Get Recall. I’ve used it constantly for almost a year to manage and transcribe all the videos we create and work with. It works. It’s cheap. It’s the kind of AI app that’s just become part of my daily workflow, the...
The Simplest Way to Make Your Product More Agentic This Month? Make Sure Your API Is Actually Agent-Friendly. It Probably Isn’t.
Every B2B CEO we talk to right now has some version of the same question. “How do we become more agentic? What’s the first move? Do we need a Chief AI Officer? A forward-deployed engineering team? An MCP strategy offsite?” The answer is simpler than...
Yes, Many Software Leaders Have Moats. No, That’s Not Enough.
Do leaders in B2B software still have moats in the Age of AI? Of course they do. You can see it plain as day in Gross Revenue Retention. The median GRR across B2B software is still around 90%. The best companies hold above 95%. When you have a $50k+ ACV, those numbers...
Our AI Agents Drove 40% of Our Attendance Growth at SaaStr AI Annual 2026. Here’s What That Actually Means.
We just crossed a milestone I want to share because I think the data tells two very different stories depending on your situation. Our AI SDR setup (Artisan + Qualified working together) has sold 16% of all paid tickets so far. And that’s a full 17x what our...
We Vibe Coded Our Own AI VP of Marketing and Customer Success Platform. Two Vendors Just Lost $20k+ Each. And They’ll Never Know Why.
We’ve now vibe coded 12+ apps into production at SaaStr. Some replaced things we were paying for. Some filled genuine white space where nothing existed. But two recent builds are different, because the implications go well beyond SaaStr. We built our own AI VP...
I Need Agentic Email. Claude Said Try AgentMail For a New Project. So I Did. And Never Looked At Anything Else.
Welcome to the Winner-Take-All Reality of “AEO” Let me tell you exactly what happened. Last week I needed email inboxes for our AI agents. QBee, 10K, and the rest of the SaaStr agent stack all need to send and receive email, and Gmail is not built for...
Everyone’s Debating Lines of Code in Vibe Coding. Meanwhile, 14,230 Lines Runs Our Whole GTM.
There’s a running debate on social media and in the vibe coding world about lines of code. That too many lines means slop. Too few means you didn’t build anything real. Everyone has an opinion. Clearly, if you build in Replit/Lovable/vO etc without a...
The App Explosion Has Only Just Begun. Yes, We Now Even Have an AI Parking Pass Distribution App.
Every year for SaaStr AI Annual, we have to distribute 4,000+ parking passes. That alone is a pain. But it’s worse than it sounds: There are 3 different parking pass variants (different lots, different access levels) Each pass has to be tied to a specific...
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