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[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin For mid-enterprise level it’s the only way to regularly optimize irl selling for each opportunity.

[Alex Oak @alexoakdev]

Someone built a fitness app using the same psychological mechanics as gambling

This might work better than every normal fitness app 😭😭

You bet money on whether you’ll hit 10,000 steps today

If you fail, you lose your money

If you succeed, you split the money from everyone who didn’t

So disciplined people literally profit off lazy people

Most fitness apps try motivating you with streaks and notifications

This one motivates you with financial fear

Imagine realizing at 11:52pm you still need 1,700 more steps or you lose $30

Entire friend groups would be outside walking laps around their neighborhood before midnight trying not to lose their steppa challenge

It sounds stupid but this would probably motivate people better than any other fitness product

Would you use this yourself?

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin @bizzitAI @sama Is this true @grok ?

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

Trend I'm seeing in the Valley: the latest AI-native startup teams are all building their own internal tools, 100% customized for their needs, instead of buying SaaS.

Do not dismiss these as vibe coded slop. They are built by professional internal developers dedicated to building internal tools, sped up 10x by AI.

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin Rip this @grok

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin @grok guess it

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin Incredible slop

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin @pmarca @FoundersPodcast IRL llms 😂

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

1. If You Have Not Accelerated Because of AI You Have Failed

“Slow” incumbents like Oracle are signing $30BN deals with OpenAI.

Founders had 30 months since ChatGPT launched to do something.

If you haven’t grown because of AI yet, it’s not going to happen.

Do you agree, if you have not grown because of AI yet, you are going to fail @eoghan @howietl @severinhacker @jack_newton

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@GrantSlatton The way this is described lol

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

Just had a A+ deep dive with @Benioff coming to SaaStr soon:

- Where AI budget >really< is coming from
- Data + AI, what it really means
- Who wins in AI: incumbents vs startups
- What enterprises really want from AI agents
- AI Hackathons even at 50+ year old companies
- Slack as the agentic layer for almost everything
- How Salesforce makes Big M&A actually work

Super fun deep dive coming soon!

[brett goldstein @thatguybg]

what cities make you too much of:

- LA makes you too soft
- NYC makes you too hard
- SF makes you too weird
- Boston makes you too nerdy

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin @AviSchiffmann 💧

[Shahed Khan @shahedkhan]

We paid $150k for https://t.co/iut4MAxjca after closing our Series A.

How we acquired that domain is still one of the company’s wildest stories.

[BA-Connect @BAconnect41]

@RyanRudin @AviSchiffmann 💧

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Introducing Einstein Service Agent on Salesforce's new Agentforce Platform! Experience intelligent customer support with seamless collaboration between digital & human workers for rapid case resolution.

🔹 Seamless transfer & human handoffs across all channels
🔹 No writing conversational trees
🔹 Reads text, images, audio/video
🔹 Omni-channel transfer & human handoffs
🔹 Acts across sales, service, marketing, & commerce
🔹 Hybrid keyword & vector search
🔹 Extensible low-code tools
🔹 MuleSoft for cross-system actions
🔹 Real-time, harmonized data with Data Cloud

See it at Dreamforce 2024! Now everyone is an Einstein. ❤️

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

So what if I told you about a SaaS company:

- at $700m ARR
- growing 30%+
- with 130% NRR
- with 20%+ free cash margins
- with no downturn and an epic brand
- seeing 30%+ bookings next year, too

what would that be worth?

How about just $6.9 Billion. Barely 10x ARR

It's a bit rough out there right now

[dara khosrowshahi @dkhos]

Thank you, @TIME, for recognizing @Uber as one of the World's Most Sustainable Companies! So proud of our team's efforts to lead the charge towards an all-electric future. Much more to come! ⚡⚡

[Ben Meer @SystemSunday]

20 sentences that will maximize your social intelligence:

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I’m 37.

If you're still in your 20's, read this: