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#General #Development #Mobile Development #Cloud & DevOps #Cybersecurity & Privacy #AI & Data Science #Hardware & Gadgets #Design & UXWhen progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration
What happens if the AI migration accelerates and sizable portions of the workforce are slow to move out of fear, resistance or inability?
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The Silent Churn: Why Your Best Customers Often Leave Without a Word. We Just Did.
A $60,000 lesson in customer success. Eight years. That’s how long we’ve been paying a vendor $60,000 annually. Eight years of being what most B2B companies would call a “good customer” — we paid on time, didn’t complain much, and frankly, we were probably easy to forget about. But … we’ve been using their product... Continue Reading
The $400B HR Tech Boom: How Old School ADP & Paychex Are Thriving Alongside Rippling, Deel & Gusto
The Bottom Line Up Front: The HR tech market is experiencing an unprecedented boom with room for multiple $100B+ winners. While ADP trades at 6.5x revenue with a $132B market cap and Paychex commands an 11x multiple at $56B, the newer players are building massive businesses too: Rippling at $16.5B (29x revenue), Deel at $12.6B... Continue Reading
Dear SaaStr: What Will Need to Change The Most As We Approach $100m ARR?
Dear SaaStr: What Will Need to Change The Most As We Approach $100m ARR? At $100M ARR, everything changes. It’s a whole new game. The challenges you face at $50M ARR will feel like a warm-up compared to what’s ahead. Here’s what you can expect as you scale to $100M: Your TAM Will Be TestedBy... Continue Reading
Big Weather
Crafted for calm, clear skies Discussion | Link
Why AI is making us lose our minds (and not in the way you’d think)
The question isn’t, “will you use AI?” The question is, “what kind of AI user do you want to be: driver or passenger?”
Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images
Tea, an app that allows women to post anonymous comments about men they’ve supposedly dated, announced Friday that it has suffered a data breach, with hackers gaining access to 72,000 images.
10 Things That Are Different in Vertical SMB Sales with Toast’s CRO
Jonathan Vassel, CRO at Toast helped scale the company from $20M ARR in 2017 to $1.7B+ ARR in Q1 2025 and a stunning $25B market cap. A look back here at the top 10 learnings from his deep dive with Sam Blond on SaaStr CRO Confidential Most SaaS companies sell horizontally to desk workers across... Continue Reading
The Complete History of HubSpot’s Net Revenue Retention: From 88.6% at IPO to 115% Peak — And Why 102% Today Is Still Strong
A deep dive into one of SaaS’s most dramatic NRR transformations and what it teaches us about scaling retention in the SMB/mid-market When HubSpot filed for their IPO in August 2014, their S-1 revealed a sobering metric that would have made many investors pause: an 88.6% annualized subscription dollar retention rate. For a SaaS company... Continue Reading
One Dollar Resume Review
Professional resume review for just $1 Discussion | Link
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Monetize a Product Without a Clear Budget Line Associated With It?
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Monetize a Product Without a Clear Budget Line Associated With It? First, bear in mind every organization from the smallest SMB to the largest enterprises has some discretionary budget. When I was a VP at F500 Tech Company, I was the most junior VP, but I still had a $400,000... Continue Reading
Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.
New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples
Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) tackle complex reasoning tasks while being smaller, faster, and more data-efficient than large AI models.
Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead
Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.
CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding capabilities of proprietary models like GPT-4V and Gemini 1.5 Flash, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape between open and closed AI development. The tool, called CoSyn[…]
Runway Aleph
A new way to edit, transform and generate video Discussion | Link
It’s Qwen’s summer: new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 tops OpenAI, Gemini reasoning models on key benchmarks
The new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we'll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing models across several major benchmarks.
Should Silicon Valley celebrate Trump’s AI plans?
The big AI companies seem to be in a celebratory mood after President Donald Trump unveiled his AI Action Plan — not surprising, perhaps, since the plan was shaped by Trump’s Silicon Valley allies. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha look at how the Trump administration plans to […]
What tools are available to modern-day fintech employees?
Working in fintech often demands a range of versatile tools to promote efficiency and collaboration. Here are some of the most useful. Read more: What tools are available to modern-day fintech employees?
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Vibe Coding
If you follow us on X or LinkedIn, you may have seen we’re deep into vibe coding. Specifically, trying to build basic B2B apps — for real — using the leading vibe coding platforms like Loveable, Replit, Bolt.new, etc. After being deep into vibe coding a some complex (but not super complex) B2B product for... Continue Reading
Electra bags €433M green loan, open source software's funding problem, and European private capital hits €1.25T in 2024
This week we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over 1.4 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top f...
Launch
Create fully functional apps with AI and real human support Discussion | Link
AI in Sales: Incredible When It Works. And Often a Net Negative When You Use It On Autopilot
I just watched a founder blow their shot at an easy deal in real-time with me. The CEO of a marketing platform sent me what was actually a pretty strong pitch. Good positioning, clear value prop, strong social proof. The kind of outreach that usually gets a response. And in fact, he offered to solve... Continue Reading
From Vilnius to the world: led by Nordcurrent, Lithuania’s gaming ambitions grow
When considering countries with emerging gaming ecosystems, several stand out for their unique advantages — from lower costs of living in cities like Montpellier, to generous cultural grants in Copenh...
Dear SaaStr: How Do You Let Customers Know You Are Raising Prices?
Dear SaaStr: How Do You Let Customers Know You Are Raising Prices? Raising prices is always a delicate process, but if you handle it well, it can actually strengthen your customer relationships. The key is to communicate clearly, justify the increase with added value, and give customers enough time to adjust. If you do raise... Continue Reading
Airbus satellite launches with Irish navigation tech
In another Irish space achievement, NASA utilised an AI payload developed by Ubotica to show that the tech can help orbiting spacecraft provide better data. Read more: Airbus satellite launches with Irish navigation tech
For this HR graduate, it’s important to step outside of your comfort zone
Amy Kennedy discusses the changing nature of recruitment and the skills she uses to tackle new challenges. Read more: For this HR graduate, it’s important to step outside of your comfort zone
Spaceflux raises £5.4M to boost growth in space domain awareness sector
Spaceflux, headquartered in London, has successfully closed a 5.4 million seed funding round, enabling the company to fast-track the growth of its proprietary global telescope network and push forwar...
Rail-Flow acquires Simply Deliver to build end-to-end digital logistics ecosystem
German digital provider of solutions for rail and intermodal logistics,Rail-Flow has acquired Simply Deliver to advance its mission to deliver seamless, end-to-end digital logistics solutions across ...
How this consulting lead contributed to the EU’s AI Act
Among her many roles, Dera McLoughlin leads the delivery of services across cybersecurity, AI, IT auditing and digital consulting. Read more: How this consulting lead contributed to the EU’s AI Act
How Local Loyalty Marketing Builds Trust [Sponsored]
In an uncertain, digitalized world, one principle is becoming increasingly important: proximity. Today’s consumers want more: guidance, relevance, genuine connection – not just functional products. Br...
Overreliance on AI or humans can worsen cybersecurity, says report
Hack The Box’s latest survey shows teams should unite their human and AI resources to address growing cybersecurity challenges. Read more: Overreliance on AI or humans can worsen cybersecurity, says report
Rare global outage hits Musk’s Starlink internet service
It has not been the best of weeks for Elon Musk. Poor Tesla results on Wednesday were followed by a rare Starlink outage last night that lasted for more than two hours. Read more: Rare global outage hits Musk’s Starlink internet service
Hana Connect
AI that connects people dealing with the same struggles. Discussion | Link
Intel dumps planned European projects after flat revenue growth
Intel is cutting 15pc of its headcount this year, after recently cutting half of its management layers. Read more: Intel dumps planned European projects after flat revenue growth