European Tech Weekly

European Tech Weekly - Week 16 - 2025

Saastr

Top SaaStr Posts and Pods of the Week: YCombinator’s Fundraising Tricks, Notion + GitHub’s Secrets to Customer Success, Databricks’ CRO on Scaling

Fakepixels | Tina He

Bring the mind home

Generative Value | Eric Flaningam

The Evolution of Digital Advertising

A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson

A Recession is on the Way

Investing in AI | Rob May

Investing Against AI Multi-Modal Clickbait

Lenny's Newsletter

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder & CEO)

Saastr

Dear SaaStr: How Should I Actually Set the Sales Plan for the Year For My VP Sales?

Brian Sugar

Margin Is the New Mojo

Nikunj Kothari

Function, not form

Saastr

VC Deals in 2025 Off To Same Pace as 2024. And AI is 71% of All VC Dollars. Per NVCA

Forerunner Ventures | Forerunner Ventures

The CQ | StrictlyVC recap, Arcade's series A, Our Inaugural Founders Summit

Saanya Ojha

🧾 Weekly Wrap Sheet (04/18/2025): OpenAI’s Model Sprint, Enterprise AI Friction & Google’s Quiet Power Play

Net Interest | Marc Rubinstein

Partner Swap

Lenny's Newsletter

🧠 Community Wisdom: Setting priorities across distributed teams, moving from manager to IC, upskilling your design capabilities as a PM, and more

Kyle Harrison

The Horse, The Jockey, or The Whole Race?

Stage 2

The Financial Impact of Monthly SaaS Renewals

Ed Sim

What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #442

Saastr

Dear SaaStr: Should I Buy a Great “.com” At a Crazy Price or Just Stick What the “.ai” We Already Have?

Saanya Ojha

Gemini 2.5 Flash: Flashy Results, Modest Costs

Chamath Palihapitiya | Chamath Palihapitiya

A Conversation with JCal about the Evolution of Media

A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson

The U.S. Labor Force Over the Past 150 Years

Digital Native | Rex Woodbury

Models Aren't Moats

Janelle Teng

Google’s "Full Stack Flex": Reflections from Cloud NEXT 2025

Madrona Ventures

Unscripted: What Happened After the Mic Went Off with Douwe Kiela