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Is SaaS Back? (TL;DR: It Sure Feels Like It)

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Many SaaS leaders are now benefitting from selling AI. Not everyone has benefitted from selling AI to their base. There have only been 3 SaaS IPOs since 2021, but ServiceTitan is the next one, and the pipeline looks strong for the back half of 2025 and into 2026, from Canva to Databricks to Stripe to Wiz to Snyk and on and on.

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AI-powered martech news and releases: September 12

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AI is expected to produce 48% of social media marketing content by 2026, according to a Capterra study. Oracle Cloud CX enhances personalization and improves upsell and cross-sell conversions. Market research analysts have the lowest unemployment rate, 3.2%, according to the same study.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Salesforce at $40 Billion in ARR

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But how about 2026+? Salesforce May Be Hiring 1,000+ Reps To Sell AI, But Overall Sales & Marketing Spend is down From 32% of revenue a year ago to 30% today. Nvidia, Google Cloud, Azure, etc. We’ll see. Salesforce Growth: FY26 $40.9B (guidance) FY25 $37.9B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $14.5B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B

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5 Interesting Learnings From Freshworks at ~$600,000,000 in ARR

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NRR Stable / Up a Smidge at 108%, But Boosted By Price Increases Like Monday and many other leaders that sell to SMBs, they’ve seen some decline in NRR. Predicting $1 Billion in ARR in 2026 The power of > 100% NRR. Freshworks clearly sees $1B in ARR bu 2026. It remains relatively strong at 108%, however.

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The marketer’s guide to state data privacy laws

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Buy, sell, or share PI of 100,000+ consumers or households. Gets 50%+ of annual revenues from selling or sharing consumers’ PI.

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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

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Simply put, it’s the automated buying and selling of digital advertising space. Programmatic advertising is now being used to sell ad space for CTV, digital radio and digital out of home (DOOH). The world-wide spending on programmatic advertising is projected to hit $314 billion by 2026, per Technavio. In the U.S., Ease of use.

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Top 25 SaaStr Tweets / Short-Bites of 2020

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But if you just go heads down, and keep it up: 2020: $10m 2021: $14m 2022: $20m 2023: $28m 2024: $38m 2025: $53m 2026: $75m 2027: $105m 2028: $148m 2029: $206m 2030: $290m. Eng: "Just go sell what we have!!" — Jason BeKind Lemkin (@jasonlk) February 29, 2020.

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