Mary Meeker and the Bond team have released their latest 300+ page annual report, this time all on AI It's very good but long, so I've summarized the Top 10 Points for B2B and enterprise founders here:

Adam Chrigström is onboarding the first 100 customers himself. 💪 Free workshops, playbook tweaks, deep convos. No product data? Talk to users. That is your data. 🔥 🎧 New on The SaaS CFO Podcast youtu.be/EVwA9xXSSuk #SaaS

We’re proud to recognize several names on CNBC's list of the top 50 companies leading a new era of AI breakthroughs. Congrats to our portfolio companies—Anthropic, Perplexity, Canva, and Abridge made the list. Continue to be on the lookout for these visionaries

ICYMI: Abacum is enhancing its product and fueling growth across the U.S. following a new venture funding investment. #BuiltInNYC #NYCTechNews #CareersInTech Read more here ➡️ monkeylink.co/e47ec8

Every week I write our Work-Bench Enterprise Weekly newsletter that goes out to 30,000+ people ranging from the CEOs of public companies to engineers at startups and beyond. Here's the biggest news from Enterprise Weekly #519: Meta Scales Up, Salesforce's Defensive Move, and

This week in What's Hot 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #450 ARRmageddon: The New Bar for AI Startups - faster than ever and bigger - choices to make as a founder... full post: whatshotit.vc/p/whats-in-ent…

Earlier this week, we hosted the latest edition of our CFO Kitchen Cabinet dinner series, where we bring together the CFOs of late-stage and public companies for an evening of closed-door group discussion. A huge thank you to our host, Tim Cabral, Board Member and fmr CFO of

Early sales hires, especially during the pursuit of product-market fit, need to know how to summarize market feedback and communicate it to product and engineering teams. Here’s an interview exercise I conduct with a first sales hire candidate. Between the first and second

This week in What's Hot 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #454 Striving for the autonomous enterprise + and what we're excited for with our new $250M inception fund! And what prompt kicked off that Yeti/Bigfoot video? Full post below:

Founders: This is your micro memo for making your first $1M in revenue. Real advice from leaders who’ve done it — from closing your first deal yourself to focusing on the right customers. Get the full guide: bessemervp.team/4nO9FJf

What. A. Week. 💥 At Work-Bench we turned 12 last Tuesday, and this week was a perfect reminder that we’re just getting started. Here’s a peek at what went down: 🧠 Monday: Kicked off the week diving into a killer new startup during IC. 📈 Tuesday: Held our annual team

Systems of record arguably become more important with AI Agents. When we have 100X more agents than humans, we’ll care a lot about the workflows and data those agents are tied to. The deterministic parts of software are the guardrails that keep agents safe and on track.

News! We just launched “The General Podcast” 🎙️ It’s a ‘hostless' show that pairs tech and business leaders together for honest, behind-the-scenes conversations about building: 🎙️ Ep 1: Katie Dill (Katie Dill) x Randy Hunt (Randy J. Hunt) 🎙️ Ep 2: A healthcare journalist x a

What happens when AI agents become the starting point for every purchasing decision? On The Intelligent Marketer w/ Mike Duboe & Rishabh Jain, Perplexity's Dmitry Shevelenko shares how agentic commerce will change the way consumers shop & what merchants need to do to stay ahead.

Marc Andreessen says fiction is dead, because reality is now the better story engine. “Actual lives, wars, politics, presidential impeachments, people going to prison. The stakes are just so much higher.” Culture has pivoted. We now live inside a 24/7 reality show. The winners

Last week, I spoke with an entrepreneur whose company is growing at a pace that goes beyond even traditional hypergrowth standards. I’ve read about companies like Replit and Lovable going from $0 to $100 million in revenue in under a year, and coming from a more traditional SaaS

A new wave of enterprise software companies isn’t just adding AI, they’re rebuilding their products around it from day one. This shift is transforming how B2B SaaS companies build, sell, & scale, & it’s showing up in this year’s B2B SaaS Rising 100, co-sponsored by Sapphire Ventures.

The Canalys (part of Omdia) (part of Omdia) Tech Titans Index is a barometer of the health of the tech industry and state IT spending. It tracks and aggregates the revenue of 18 leading vendors across IT hardware, software, and services, with data going back to 2007. linkedin.com/posts/jaymcbai…

Shopify is on fire -- it's >accelerating< at $10.72B ARR to a stunning 31% (!) -- up from 20% a year ago And it's doing it with >less< headcount, well above $1m per employee The AI Strategy: 1⃣Tobi's mandate: "Prove AI can't do the job before hiring" 2⃣50%+ of merchant

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