SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

Sam Liang is the co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai. Before Otter.ai, Sam was the founding CEO of Location Labs (acquired for $220M), and the architect behind Google’s blue dot – yes, that blue dot you see every time you open Google Maps. He has a classic Silicon Valley pedigree: Stanford PhD, Google early days, multiple successful exits. The numbers are staggering: they’ve gone from zero to processing billions of conversations, partnered with Zoom as their primary transcription pr

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Sales Gravy

MARCH 25, 2025

Wes from Flower Mound, Texas, has a familiar challenge: how to attract more qualified B2B leads and convert them before they slip away. Hes already tried a variety of channels, including inside sales, social media, and email, but is struggling to ramp up both volume and quality. Below are the key insights from our conversation, along with practical strategies to multiply your lead count and build a system that secures face-to-face meetings with the right buyers.

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B2B Appointment Inside sales Pitch 88

Sales Hacker

MARCH 25, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Ray Smith is the VP of AI Agents at Microsoft. Previously, he was the Global VP of Product for SAP, CRM and Sales Cloud. Before that, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of DataHug, which was acquired by Calidus Cloud in 2016. Ray breaks down why the rise of AI agents is a tectonic shift, how businesses are already seeing ROI, and what it means for SaaS, team structure, and go-to-market strategies.

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GTM X-functional Start-ups Relationship building 70

SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

Dear SaaStr: When Should You Make Your First Finance Hire? Even with all the great AI and other tools out there in finance now — if you are growing quickly, you should make your first finance hire earlier than most founders think. Heres the breakdown: At $1M$2M ARR, hire a full-time Director of Finance if you’re growing quickly. Once youre at $1M ARR, things start to get messy fast.

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Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to keyless entry, in-room entertainment, and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that

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PandaDoc

MARCH 25, 2025

The sales process varies greatly depending on the purchase. If youre selling a cup of coffee, the options are relatively simple. You choose a price based on size, add any extras, and send your customers on their way. But what happens when the purchase isnt as straightforward? Take buying a CRM, for example. You cant just pick it off a menu. You need to evaluate pricing, implementation, features, integrations, and ongoing support.

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G2

MARCH 25, 2025

I reviewed the 8 best VoIP systems for businesses to streamline their customer communication, direct the calls to a central network hub, and scale growth.

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Networking Growth Customers 52

G2

MARCH 25, 2025

Optical character recognition (OCR) was simply about reading text off an image. But now, with AI in the mix, you've got a different beast on your hands.

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Networking 52

SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2025

In SaaS, its easy to assume that virtual selling has completely taken over. After all, Zoom is efficient, email is scalable. Hyrid and work-from-home made it the default paradigm for many in B2B sales. But if you listen to many top CROs in SaaSlike Jonathan Vassil of Toast, Christian Smith of Splunk, Loren Padelford of Slice, and Sam Blond CRO emeritus of Brextheyll tell you that in-person selling is far from dead.

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G2

MARCH 25, 2025

Ship fashion and accessories like a pro with tips to tackle challenges, streamline fulfillment, and deliver seamless experiences that keep customers coming back.

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Customers Networking 52

Martech

MARCH 25, 2025

I am often surprised by how many C-level, SVP, VP and even director-level executives delegate the content and other aspects of their email newsletter to junior marketing team members. When was the last time you read your organizations email newsletter from the perspective of your email subscribers? When was the last time you asked your email subscribers for their thoughts on your organizations email newsletter either in a focus group, via one-on-one interviews (these are the best options) or in

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B2B Promote Click Through Rate Territory 119

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Salesforce

MARCH 25, 2025

Getting funding for your small and medium-sized business (SMB) is one of the biggest hurdles to cross as an entrepreneur. And every SMB owner will admit this: funding can make or break their business. Whether you’re just starting or scaling operations — understanding your funding options is the key to making ‌the right financial decisions.

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Martech

MARCH 25, 2025

More than half (54%) of American consumers say they dont pay attention to the brands they buy, as long as the product meets their needs, a new report found. Thats according to the Consumer Products Engagement report from SAP Emarsys and Deloitte, which was released today at the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas. According to the report, a new engagement-driven landscape is taking shape, and success in this Engagement Era depends on a personalized omnichannel approach across the customer lifecycle

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Salesforce

MARCH 25, 2025

What good is your data if it doesn’t speak the language of your business? Consistent, trustworthy, and business-rich data is more important than ever for accurate decision making and to deliver on the promise of AI in todays agentic era. However, many organizations struggle with distrust and inconsistencies in data because business context is lacking and definitions are recreated for every report, dashboard, and AI analytics experience.

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Martech

MARCH 25, 2025

Thanks to AI, marketers are using more tools than ever, and more are homegrown, according to the 2025 State of Your Stack Survey, a collaboration between MarTech, Chiefmartec.com and MarketingOps.com. The survey found that 62.1% of respondents use more tools than two years ago. “It’s surprising to see now how many folks we have saying, ‘Yes,’ even given that environment of fiscal discipline around martech stacks.

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Salesforce

MARCH 25, 2025

When youre building fast, it can feel like youre putting a coat of paint on a moving train. So if you hit a barrier, its understandable to want to seek design shortcuts that solve your immediate needs even if its potentially at the cost of long-term stability and future scalability. After completing a Figma audit, I discovered thousands of detached Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS 2 beta) instances.

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Engineering Represent Trust Meeting 71

Hubspot

MARCH 25, 2025

For businesses, AI agents can sound like a dream come true: increased productivity, reduced administration on internal teams, and humans outsourcing repetitive tasks in favor of the ones they love. As a consumer, I personally love it when I can self-serve efficiently through an AI agent. It saves time, bypasses the need to listen to tinny hold music on the phone, and I dont disrupt a hard-working humans day with my easy-to-solve query.

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Product Healthcare Strategize Profit margin 36

Martech

MARCH 25, 2025

Keeping up with the latest channels and trends is important, but email remains one of the most effective and reliable drivers of performance. Email is more than just a communication tool. It serves as the backbone of first-party data, identity resolution, and personalized marketing strategies all essential for success in todays privacy-first, omnichannel landscape.

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