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The SaaSpocalypse is over. Data on why investors are back to paying for 80% gross margins — recovery, multiples, AI margins, and retention through July 2026.
This is what we discussed today in the Enterprise SaaS CEO and Founder Mastermind
August 4, 2026
A vertical SaaS founder facing a seven-figure gap between two pricing paths walks through the break-even churn math, and what founders across a range of SaaS companies actually do to raise prices without losing customers.
A founder closing six-figure deals learns that being the reason customers buy is a real advantage early on and an unscalable trap later. Here's how founders in our group are rationing their own time without losing the close-rate lift.
A data-backed guide for SaaS CEOs preparing to sell, covering the 24-month prep timeline, the 8 metrics that drive your multiple, NRR improvement plays, deal killers to avoid, and how competitive process design adds 20–40% to net proceeds.
This week's SaasRise discussions covered how SaaS leaders are adapting to an AI era that is reshaping moats, pricing, and go-to-market execution. Founders traded hard-won lessons on deploying AI agents, defending retention, running smarter paid experiments, and handling everything from privacy trolls to acquisition due diligence. The through-line: use AI to drive real business outcomes, not complexity for its own sake.
A B2B SaaS founder's Meta ad spend doubled his CAC the moment he scaled past small budgets. Here's the math, the ad types, and the fixes our mastermind worked through to get it back under control.
A small SaaS team asked our mastermind whether a LinkedIn newsletter is worth the effort. Here's the real subscriber math from a founder who's run one for a year and a half, and who it does and doesn't make sense for.
We went around our founder mastermind and asked everyone the same question: which one or two channels are actually generating qualified leads for you right now. Here's what a room of B2B SaaS CEOs said is working in mid-2026.
A breakdown of how our mastermind is actually using three Slack-based AI agents, GetViktor, Patricia.app, and AskRocco, across content, dashboards, software development, bookkeeping, meeting prep, and ad management.
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