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by Praveen Ghanta

Praveen Ghanta, founder of Fraction, on hiring, building, and shipping software — and why most of the standard playbook doesn't hold up under founder math.

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How AI Meeting Transcripts Catch the Project Signals Managers Miss
Team Ops Video

How AI Meeting Transcripts Catch the Project Signals Managers Miss

Skilled project managers catch a lot, but not everything, especially across multiple clients at once. The checks that slip through are not random. They are the early warning signs. Here is how AI transcripts automate them.

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The 90% Problem: Why AI Coding Agents Still Need Software Architects
AI Strategy Video

The 90% Problem: Why AI Coding Agents Still Need Software Architects

AI coding agents are technically gifted. They also overbuild, overengineer, and miss architectural decisions that only a human who has shipped to production can catch.

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Profit Is the New Moat for SaaS
SaaS Growth Video

Profit Is the New Moat for SaaS

For roughly 20 years, SaaS companies treated zero profit as a growth strategy. AI just made that bet untenable. The companies that get to 20% margins first will have the only defensible position left.

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SaaS Margins Were Zero. AI Changes That Math.
SaaS Growth Video

SaaS Margins Were Zero. AI Changes That Math.

Defense #1 in the AI era: profitability. Most SaaS companies have run at zero profit margin for 20 years. That's a luxury AI pricing pressure will not allow.

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Operate at the Edge: The SaaS Moat Big Companies Can't Copy
SaaS Growth Video

Operate at the Edge: The SaaS Moat Big Companies Can't Copy

Software alone is no longer a defensible moat. The companies that will survive the AI era are the ones whose software does something in the real world — and earns the switching cost that comes with it.

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Stuck at a SaaS Plateau? It's Not Just a Sales Problem
AI Strategy Video

Stuck at a SaaS Plateau? It's Not Just a Sales Problem

Public data is no longer a SaaS moat. LLMs replicate it for free. Three paths to proprietary data competitors cannot touch.

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Why 10% SaaS Churn Isn't Actually a Problem
SaaS Growth Video

Why 10% SaaS Churn Isn't Actually a Problem

SaaS operating margins were near zero for 20 years. AI lets lean teams cut costs, drop prices, and hit 20%+ margins. Here's the new playbook.

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Your Startup's Exit Multiple Isn't Built Up. It's Knocked Down.
M&A Exit Video

Your Startup's Exit Multiple Isn't Built Up. It's Knocked Down.

You don't stack favorable conditions to multiply your way to a 20x exit. You start at the ceiling and lose multiples for every box you fail to check.

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The Churn Wall Is Real. Raising ACV Is How You Break Through It.
SaaS Growth Video

The Churn Wall Is Real. Raising ACV Is How You Break Through It.

HiddenLevers grew revenue 42x on just 2.25x more customers. The secret wasn't more sales or less churn. It was raising ACV from $1K to $18K per year.

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The Rule of 40 Doesn't Mean What VCs Want You to Think It Means
Startup Economics Video

The Rule of 40 Doesn't Mean What VCs Want You to Think It Means

VCs use the Rule of 40 to justify torching money on growth — but bootstrappers and prudent founders should use it as a composition exercise to build companies that actually survive.

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Why Your SaaS Company Stopped Growing: It's Not a Growth Plateau, It's a Churn Wall
SaaS Growth Video

Why Your SaaS Company Stopped Growing: It's Not a Growth Plateau, It's a Churn Wall

SaaS growth doesn't stall because you stopped selling. It stalls because churn scales with your customer base until it matches your sales.

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Why Doubling Sales Won't Fix Your Growth Plateau
SaaS Growth Video

Why Doubling Sales Won't Fix Your Growth Plateau

Hitting a growth plateau where sales equal churn? Selling harder just raises the wall. Here's why retention, not velocity, breaks through the ceiling.

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