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SaaS Isn’t Dead. It’s Growing Up.

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I was super early at HubSpot, a first one hundred employee.  I watched the company go public. I used some of the gains from that IPO to put a down payment on my house. It was one of those rare moments where a long bet actually paid off in a tangible way.  A year ago, HubSpot was trading above $800 a share. Today it sits in the low $200s. That is a decline of more than 70 percent in roughly twelve months.  And it is not alone.  Across B2B SaaS, billions in market cap have evaporated. Multiples have compressed. Growth stocks have been punished. The easiest narrative is that SaaS is dead and AI finished the job.  I do not think that is what is happening.  What we are seeing feels much more like SaaS growing up.    The Easy Era […]

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3Sixty Insights #HRTechChat with Melissa Swisher, Chief Revenue Officer at Socrates.ai

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For this episode of the #HRTechChat, our guest was Melissa Swisher, chief revenue officer of Socrates.ai. To say Socrates.ai is an artificially intelligent chatbot to tie together various domains of the enterprise software ecosystem is probably the most straightforward description.  The description implies only a small sliver of Socrates.ai’s potential application. Some of these domains themselves may have chatbots specific to various proprietary software, and Socrates.ai an draw information from it all. As Melissa elaborated during our chat, Socrates.ai “is an employee experience platform. Think of it as an experience layer” that hews to employees’ preferences. My take is this: Think of it as a prosthetic to facilitate a unified experience in employee self-service as this pertains not just to staff’s employment, but to anything […]