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SaaStr on 20VC This Week: Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. And Why the AI Budget War is Just Getting Started

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Why 40% Cloud Adoption Marks the End of Easy Growth. The 40% Tipping Point : With 40% of workloads now in the cloud, SaaS has hit market maturity. The easy growth is over—companies like Zoom exemplify this with saturated markets and nowhere left to expand rapidly. It’s the natural evolution of a maturing market.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Balance Optimism with Realism When Pitching VCs?

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Here’s how to approach it: Show the Big Picture, But Back It Up Investors want to see your ambition—how you’re going to dominate your market or create a category. Use a Bottom-Up Approach for Projections Startups often get into trouble by pitching top-down projections, like “If we capture 1% of a $10B market, we’ll hit $100M ARR.”

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The ChatGPT Moment: When 8 Years of Growth Happens in 8 Months

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That’s not just viral growth – that’s a fundamental shift in how humans interact with information. The entire AI ecosystem is experiencing this vertical growth pattern: Cursor’s Developer Revolution : The ultimate growth story. They achieved this with $0 invested in marketing and just 131 employees.

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Foundational ABM Building Blocks

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a key strategy for driving sustainable growth. They’ll share what to consider when crafting an ABM strategy, from defining your ideal customer profile to crafting compelling messaging to measuring success. Today, many B2B companies use ABM teams or technologies to make sales.