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Cassie Chao Leemans

Building the Talent Engine: Hiring Your First Recruiter

Craft VP of Talent shares framework for hiring first recruiter: invest in-house when hiring 1+ person monthly, saving $500K-$750K annually versus agencies while building scalable processes.

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Aaron Cort
Michael Robinson

Inside Supabase’s Breakout Growth: Lessons Scaling to 4.5M+ Devs, Powering AI Coding & Vibe Coding

Supabase scales to 4.5M+ developers with community-first growth, achieving $5B Series E by focusing on database initialization as key activation event and serving two distinct developer segments.

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Aaron Cort

Inside Replit’s Breakout Growth: Lessons from $2.8M to $150M ARR

We're excited to share insights from Replit's incredible journey, growing from $2.8M to $150M ARR in under a year through product-led marketing systems that turned their AI coding agent launch into compounding growth.

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Zao Chen
Michael Robinson
Aaron Cort

Inside Supabase’s Product & Community Led Growth

Supabase grows with product-led and open-source strategy, now powering 3.5M+ databases and backed by $200M Series D.

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Brian Murray

Buy and Build a New Playbook for AI Entrepreneurs

LLMs offer a chance to transform labor-intensive services. AI-forward operators can lead in legacy industries.

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Mike Marg
Justin Reidy

The AI Simple Stack

A framework for how companies are starting to build their AI stacks to supercharge their employees and their products.

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David Sacks

Announcing $1.3 Billion for Craft Ventures IV and Growth II

With our fourth early-stage fund & second growth fund, we continue to focus on B2B software in the era of generative AI.

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Brian Murray

VC vs PE: What's the right framework for thinking about your startup?

David Sacks on how startups in today's economy should think about operating efficiently & raising their next round.

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Sean Whitney

Figma’s Early Days: Product-Led Sales Lessons

Sean Whitney & Kyle Parrish, Figma’s first sales leader, on building and scaling a sales team.

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David Sacks

What is Bottom Up SaaS?

We asked ChatGPT-4 “what is bottom up SaaS?” The answer was good enough that we wanted to share.

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David Sacks
Brian Murray

The Difficulty Ratio

A fundamental principle in SaaS sales is that the size of a deal must be large enough to justify the effort required to close it.

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Michael Robinson

Efficiency as the Primary Operating Principle

Eight initiatives for SaaS companiesto increase efficiency in an economic downturn.

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Sean Whitney

Figma’s Early Days: Growth Marketing Lessons

A conversation with Growth Marketer Toni Gemayel on how he scaled growth marketing at Figma.

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Sean Whitney

Figma’s Early Days — How Patience & Discipline Fostered a Killer Product

Conversation Series with Figma’s early leaders, hosted by Sean Whitney.

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David Sacks

Operating During a Downturn

Discussion with David Sacks & Jeff Fluhr on public markets, venture capital and historic outcomes of economic downturns.

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Mike Marg

Surviving and Thriving in Tough Sales Conditions

Insights into how difficult SaaS selling conditions will prompt adaptation & evolution.

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Jeff Fluhr

Applying the Burn Multiple to Marketplace Business Models

How to apply the Burn Multiple formula to marketplaces to measure capital efficiency.

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Mike Marg

Cheat Codes: 5 SaaS Sales Challenges & How to Solve Them

Craft hosted a GTM Roundtable discussion last week with sales leaders & founders from eight SaaS companies.

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Ethan Ruby
David Sacks

The SaaS Metrics That Matter

One of the best features of SaaS businesses is how easy they are to measure. Only a handful of metrics really matter.

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Jeff Fluhr

J Zac Stein and Georg Ell Join Craft as Venture Partners

It is rare to find investors and operators who have unique insight into SaaS and/or marketplace businesses.

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Jeff Fluhr

Announcing Craft III: $1.1 Billion for SaaS and Marketplaces

Announcing the close of Craft Ventures III ($612M) and Growth I ($510M), totaling $1.12B.

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David Sacks

The SaaS Org Chart

You’re the founder of a nicely growing SaaS startup which has just raised a Series A, Series B, or Series C funding...

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Jeff Fluhr

50 Shades of Marketplaces

A deep dive into marketplace models by Stubhub founder & Craft investor Jeff Fluhr

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David Sacks

The SaaS Board Meeting

A how-to guide to prepare for and efficiently run your board meeting.