SaaStr Annual 2025 brings together founders, VCs, and peers to explore AI in B2B and scaling strategies. Speakers predict a wave of ultra-lean billion-dollar companies and say SaaS is far from dead, with the past two years reshaping how companies grow and raise money.
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Every year you kind of get a sense of what's hot, what's going on in the market, and they show up here at Saastr.
This is the place to be.
I remember being at Saastr in, I think, 2016, and the huge names that are now valued at billions of dollars, they were just a couple of people with a laptop.
The world today moves really, really fast, and to be able to do that and innovate and take chances, you have to have a company that bets then on software as a service.
The people who are saying that SaaS is dead are wrong. It's never been more alive, and we're gonna start to see the first wave of 3-person billion-dollar companies.
You guys have a VC lounge, you have a founders lounge. The Braindate system has been— made it really easy for me to set up one-on-ones, which is really what I want to do. I really want to have that one-on-one connection.
The energy here is incredible. Everybody here is very interested. I I love how they're also taking care of us here. I feel completely like the red carpet has been rolled out for us here today.
I think it's just really important to be where founders are, to meet them where they're at. This is a really important show for startups and for VCs, both of whom are very important audiences for us.
Founding a company is not easy, and anything we can do to try and promote entrepreneurship just resonates really well with me.
We are SaaS.
We are SaaS.
Energy. There are so many people here, there are so many companies doing really exciting things. Small companies just getting started, always having big ideas. Larger companies— it's a great place to meet customers, prospects, and have a chance to, to kind of sell what we're up to.
In the last 2 years in SaaS have been wild. It's been a different funding market, a different growth market. There's been a lot of pressures. And in this different environment, Jason talks about how it's not a downturn but it's a new reality.
When there is great changes like this, there's never been a better time to be a builder, to be to be an operator.
