LinkedIn: The Greatest B2B Acquisition of All Time?
So when Microsoft paid $26 Billion to buy LinkedIn, it seemed like they were getting a pretty good deal. Fast forward to today, it looks like a great one. LinkedIn is at $17 Billion in ARR, still growing 10%, and its whole division is wildly profitable — with...
The Top SaaStr Posts, Pods and Vids of the Week: HubSpot’s Chairman, Checkr’s CRO, Rippling’s CRO, and a new CRO Confidential!
Top Posts: #1: 2025 And The Rise of the “Mech AE” (Account Executive) #2: 2025 Should Be Better Than 2024 For Almost All Leading Public SaaS Companies #3: 38% of Bootstrapped Start-Ups Have Solo Founders. But Only 17% of VC-Backed Ones Do. And 10%-12% of Ones That...
Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?
"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI."https://t.co/4PXy0RkaMu — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 11, 2025 So a...
8 Quick Ways to Get More High Quality Leads. Right Now.
Dear SaaStr: What’s the best way to get more leads right now? There are many “lists” you can buy out there, and most will perform relatively poorly. You can have an AI SDR assemble its own list of prospects to auto email. That rarely works all that well,...
Your Much Bigger Competition Isn’t Always Out to Get You. They Often Just Don’t Really Care.
🤷♀️You, around $30m-$40m ARR: "Why would anyone copy us? This is so, so hard. Do something easier." 🏃♀️Them: "They are doing $30m-$40m ARR!! Wow!! We can do a new, better version of that and do millions in revenue!!" — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025...
Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp
At SaaStr’s AI Summit, we gathered the product leaders who have built some of the most widely-used AI features in production today to share their tactics.
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder?
Dear SaaStr: What Are The Biggest Problems You Face as a Startup Founder? The list of problems is endless (this is one of the hardest parts of the job), but let me try to order a few of the biggest challenges roughly based on stage: Top issues you face as a startup,...
Crunchbase: 50% of VC Capital Went to SF Bay Last Year, Q4 Roared Back for Venture Capital
So Carta and Crunchbase are two of our favorite data sources at SaaStr, and Crunchbase’s lateste VC funding report is out here. Two data points jumped out at me: 51% of all U.S. VC funding ($178 Billion total) went to SF Bay Area companies Venture roared back in...
The #1 Worst Hire of All When You Are Just Starting To Scale: The Mediocre VP of Engineering
Every time I see a CRO that doesn't sell themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CTO that doesn't code themselves, they fail. Every time I see a CMO that doesn't market themselves, they fail. — Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)...
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