Email: SaaS rebound 📈, AI spend slump 📉, $25B exits 💰

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SaaS rebound 📈, AI spend slump 📉, $25B exits 💰
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;An Ode to Counter-Positioning (15 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Counter-positioning allows startups to challenge incumbents by adopting business models that incumbents can't replicate without harming their own profit structures. Examples include Ramp's focus on saving customer money and Base Power's shift from battery sales to electricity services. This strategy buys startups time to develop lasting moats like Scale Economies and Network Effects.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;The Golden Snitch (9 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Exceptional performance often comes from finding the one outcome that matters more than assigned tasks. Teams should distinguish visible activity from decisive results, give proven employees autonomy, and identify which achievement would materially change the company's trajectory.
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tools &amp; Resources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;The growth team behind MotherDuck, CopilotKitm and Resolve (Sponsor)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Litebox is the &lt;strong&gt;GTM agency for devtools&lt;/strong&gt; companies. Brand, website, product design and growth from one team, not four vendors. &lt;br&gt;A few examples of our output:&lt;br&gt;• &lt;strong&gt;CopilotKit&lt;/strong&gt;: 3.6x organic traffic in seven months&lt;br&gt;• &lt;strong&gt;MotherDuck&lt;/strong&gt;: 382 pages holding 5.2K keywords in Google's top 10&lt;br&gt;• &lt;strong&gt;Resolve&lt;/strong&gt;: +10K organic sessions per month&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://tracking.tldrnewsletter.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Flitebox.ai%2Fwork%3Futm_source=tldr%26utm_medium=paid-newsletter%26utm_campaign=2026-09-tldr/1/010001a0906029a5-518bfaea-da4f-4ffa-b099-6fbf67b4df6b-000000/wYV4LSoxA528ADT5z8bc23KMTIpFiawGRHdQbkexWuE=452" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span&gt;See the case studies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Now everyone can put data to work (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Data agent ChatGPT work can help people answer questions about themselves by connecting company data, investigating what changed, and building interactive, shareable dashboards. Users can direct and refine analysis within conversations without writing queries or learning a new analytics tool. The data agent connects to approved data sources and uses organizations' business terms, metric inhibitions, custom calculations, and data relationships to interpret the data. The context comes from semantic layers and trusted sources.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Introducing the Agents API (5 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    OpenAI's Agents API is now in public beta. The API brings the same harness and infrastructure that powers Codex to developers through a simple and flexible API. It allows developers to create useful agents with a powerful harness that manages context, uses tools efficiently, and coordinates subagents. The API provides infrastructure to keep agents running reliably for days, and environments where agents can work with files, run code, and save intermediate results.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Salesforce Introduces the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness (7 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Salesforce has introduced a new architecture that gives AI a shared understanding of the customer and the business. The new capabilities give AI the ability to act with trust within an open and composable AI ecosystem. The agent understands what is happening, decides what to do next, takes action across systems, and works alongside people and other agents. It brings together what agents need to understand the business, reason and plan, take action, and operate within enterprise controls.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded services, so about $25,000/mo savings (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    This developer replaced all of their services with vibe-coded products and saved about $25,000 a month. The setup covers almost everything they need - they would need much more infrastructure before that would be possible. This post covers the basics.
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                                &lt;a href="https://tracking.tldrnewsletter.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.saastr.com%2Fwhat-vcs-are-looking-for-now-25b-exits-the-new-decacorn%2F%3Futm_source=tldrfounders/1/010001a0906029a5-518bfaea-da4f-4ffa-b099-6fbf67b4df6b-000000/rHIWr9-a03_n-YwYsMFoNgSTA1be2Di-0t2WmN1RkAE=452"&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;What VCs Are Looking For Now: $25B+ Exits. The New "Decacorn" (9 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    When a partner takes your Series A meeting, the exit they are picturing is now $25 billion, not one. Twenty years ago, 6 public software companies were worth that much and no private ones. Today there are 60 public and 21 private, which is why a $1B outcome no longer moves a big fund. PitchBook counts 63 US companies worth $10B or more, up from 26 in 2021, with 19 new ones in the first half of this year. Rounds of $100M or more took 87.5% of the $412.7B invested in that half. SpaceX paid $60B for Cursor in August.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Miro was once awarded a price tag of $17.5 billion in late 2021.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Do 3-Day or 7-Day Trials Perform Better? Data From 10,000+ Apps (5 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    7-day trials have 10% higher paywall view to paid conversion rate compared to 3-day trials.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;What stopped you from building it before? (7 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    AI is the perfect employee for a terrible manager.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;7 AI models ran real businesses: $12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, and $0 revenue (18 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Anyone planning to point an agent at a business and walk away should read this first. A research lab gave seven frontier models $300 each in a real checking account and 72 hours to make money.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;We run gtm for 10 YC companies. Here's what we learned using AI to automate founder-led outbound (8 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    AI can automate research, messaging, experiments, and reply handling, but founder-led outbound still depends on a unified system around those tasks.
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