SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2025

So there’s an uncomfortable truth that VCs don’t discuss outloud that often, but everyone has sort of accepted. Everyone resisted in 2022 and into 2023, but by 2024 they began to capitulate. That a lot of unicorns that hit $1B+ valuations in 2020-2021 … probably aren’t really unicorns anymore. How many? Over 60% haven’t raised funding since 2021 and likely never achieved the scale to do so, or have seen growth slow: Per Carta, a , : 374 of the original 616 pool ha

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 1, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2025

The last IPO of the 2020-2021 era was HashiCorp in December 2021. And it’s one of the first to be acquired! IBM just closed on its $6.4 Billion acquisition of HashiCorp. And CEO David McJannet came to SaaStr Annual a little ways back to share his top scaling learnings. CEO Dave McJannet shared his systemic approach to scaling companies through distinct growth phases.

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