How to Get Millions in Founder Liquidity Without Giving Up Control of Your SaaS Business

AI-first coding isn’t a nice-to-have anymore—it’s rapidly becoming the default way software gets built. This post breaks down what’s changing inside product teams, why adoption faces resistance, and how founders and PMs can use AI to prototype faster, shift bottlenecks upstream, and ship at a fundamentally new pace.

A behind-the-scenes look at what’s actually driving enterprise customers in 2026—based on real founder insights from a SaasRise mastermind. Covers the channels compounding trust fastest (SEO + GEO, LinkedIn retargeting, founder-led ads, invite-only masterclasses, partners) and why high-volume tactics are fading.

Pulse is the beta launch of Pulse, an AI-curated technology news app that ranks and summarizes the best content across the web—news, social posts, videos, podcasts, and more—into personalized topic feeds and email digests so founders and tech professionals can stay high-signal without endless scrolling.

Top exits, deals, news, and blog posts of the week

By the time I was 26, my SaaS company was doing $50M in ARR. We had 300 employees, 70,000 paying customers, and we were one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. A year later, we sold for $169M in cash.I’m not telling you that to flex. I’m telling you because I started this business in a college dorm room with a few hundred dollars—and this is the step-by-step playbook of how it actually happened, from the first dollar to a nine-figure exit.

A practical setup guide for building a clean search account structure (brand vs. competitor vs. category), choosing match types intelligently, avoiding the common settings that waste spend, and expanding winning Google campaigns into Bing without doubling your workload.