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Thursday, 19 June, 2025
Feld Thoughts | Brad Feld
Book: The System: A Novel of the Deep State
Newcomer | Eric Newcomer
We're Headed to London. Here's the Agenda for Our Cerebral Valley AI Summit Next Week.
A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson
Expected Returns in the Stock Market
Sammy Abdullah
The State of SaaS: Revenue, Growth, and Efficiency in Q1 2025
Saastr
The Top 3 Reasons AI Sales Tools “Don’t Work” (Spoiler: They Actually Do)
Pirate Wires | Mike Solana
Choosing Not to Have Kids Is the Real Quiet Quitting
The $4.5B Board Meeting: Inside Snowflake’s AI Transformation and the CEO Who Bets His Company on Their Platform
The Sociology of Business | Ana Andjelic
She runs, brands walk?
Lenny's Newsletter
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)
Dear SaaStr: How Do I Get a Job as a First Time VP of Sales?
Building Rome(s) | Aadil Maan
Defining An AI Native Technical Program Manager
Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
Madrona Ventures
Voice Is Going Vertical: How verticalized voice AI is becoming the next killer app
Dash Media
Handshake: Building the Workforce for the AI Economy
Saanya Ojha
OpenAI and Microsoft: The Gloves are Coming Off
Jarrod Dicker
Devotion over Distribution
SaaS Acquisition Multiples through Q1 2025
We Are All Just Dust In the Wind
Fika Ventures
2025 LA First Look Retreat — Securing the Enterprise: Scaling Verkada into a Modern…
5 Interesting Learnings from Okta at $2.75 Billion in ARR
AI Roll-Up Deals Accelerate as Top VC Firms Edge Towards Private Equity
My Climate Journey | Jason Jacobs
Inside Crusoe’s Rise as a Leading AI Infrastructure Builder
BBG Ventures
AI in Healthcare Today: Customer Obsession, Building Long-Term Moats and Getting to Series A
Collaborative Fund
"Reproducing the conditions that made Sequoia’s hallways electric"
Sequoia
Partnering with Traversal: Because every engineer remembers their first time … troubleshooting
Only 37% of 2019 VC Funds Have Returned Capital: Inside the Numbers That Show Why VC Fundraising Has Gotten So Hard
