{"id":317234,"date":"2025-08-14T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T21:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/?p=317234"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:13:16","slug":"the-latest-20vcsaastr-gpt-5s-underwhelming-launch-shopifys-91-growth-with-30-fewer-staff-and-why-you-dont-need-half-your-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/the-latest-20vcsaastr-gpt-5s-underwhelming-launch-shopifys-91-growth-with-30-fewer-staff-and-why-you-dont-need-half-your-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest 20VC+SaaStr: GPT-5&#8217;s Underwhelming Launch, Shopify&#8217;s 91% Growth with 30% Fewer Staff, and Why You Don&#8217;t Need Half Your Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back on 20VC, with Harry, Rory from Scale and SaaStr&#8217;s Jason Lemkin. On GPT-5&#8217;s strategic deflation, the ruthless efficiency revolution, and why you literally don&#8217;t need half your company.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sam Altman&#039;s Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir &amp; Shopify Crush Earnings\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTaf9sBqZwM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.saastr.com\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Bottom Line Up Front<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The Bottom Line Up Front:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <strong>Jason&#8217;s Rule<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;If you haven&#8217;t grown because of AI, you&#8217;ve failed.&#8221; After 18 months since ChatGPT launched, if your B2B company hasn&#8217;t re-accelerated growth through AI by June 30th, 2025, you&#8217;re likely irrelevant. Oracle did it. Intercom did it. If you&#8217;re still &#8220;working on it,&#8221; you&#8217;re already dying.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Rory&#8217;s Reality<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;Large amounts of money don&#8217;t change people as much as they reveal what they really are.&#8221; The AI investment boom ($300-400B annually) may not yield economically rational returns, and we&#8217;re seeing the inevitable outcome of fewer, bigger winners reshaping venture entirely.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Harry&#8217;s Humility<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;I think we overestimate our ability to predict our winners.&#8221; None of his Fund I predicted winners became actual fund returners, fundamentally challenging reserve allocation models and forcing brutal honesty about early-stage investing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Shopify 2022: 11,600 employees<\/p>\n<p>Shopify 2025:  Revenue Up 91% &#8230; and 8,100 employees<\/p>\n<p>Tobi went into beast mode.  And it worked&quot; with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodriscoll?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rodriscoll<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarryStebbings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HarryStebbings<\/a> + me <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/45kNfPp5rP\">pic.twitter.com\/45kNfPp5rP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason \u2728\ud83d\udc7eSaaStr.Ai\u2728 Lemkin (@jasonlk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonlk\/status\/1956646111646716304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>GPT-5: The Great Deflation<\/h2>\n<p>The consensus was clear: GPT-5 underwhelmed. But that might be exactly what the industry needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Underwhelming kind of took a little bit of the air out of these techno-optimist &#8216;we&#8217;re underway to AGI&#8217; narratives,&#8221; noted one of the hosts. &#8220;We&#8217;re now at the &#8216;it&#8217;s really great software for doing business, let&#8217;s make it better&#8217; stage of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real story isn&#8217;t the marginal improvement in capabilities\u2014it&#8217;s the business implications. GPT-5 is 8-10x cheaper than premium alternatives, creating massive pressure on competitors like Anthropic. For companies like Cursor, this is transformational: &#8220;If I&#8217;m Cursor, this is the best damn thing that ever happened. We have a competitive product at one-quarter the price.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Strategic Takeaway<\/span>:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve moved from the &#8220;pie in the sky AGI&#8221; phase to grinding it out on business fundamentals. That&#8217;s actually good news for operators who need to build sustainable businesses rather than chase headlines.<\/p>\n<h2>The Chrome Wars: $34.5B for a Browser?<\/h2>\n<p>Perplexity&#8217;s rumored $34.5B bid for Chrome sounds insane until you understand the chess game being played.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome itself generates minimal revenue\u2014Mozilla makes only ~$700M annually despite significant market share. But Chrome&#8217;s real value isn&#8217;t in direct monetization; it&#8217;s in distribution control. &#8220;The most valuable person for whom Chrome would be valuable, if it wasn&#8217;t owned by Google, would be Google,&#8221; because they could simply pay $20B annually for search placement, just like they do with Apple&#8217;s Safari.<\/p>\n<p>For an AI company like Perplexity, owning Chrome would mean instant access to billions of users. &#8220;Would an AI engine competitor to ChatGPT absolutely kill to own the Chrome user base? Absolutely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Reality Check<\/span>:<\/strong> This isn&#8217;t about the technology\u2014it&#8217;s about distribution in the age of AI. Control the browser, control the default AI experience.<\/p>\n<h2>The $3B N8N Deal: When Workflow Automation Meets AI<\/h2>\n<p>N8N&#8217;s journey from a $300M valuation to $3B (reportedly at 40M ARR, ending the year at 80M) shows how AI transforms entire categories overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you go from automating workflows in a very deterministic way to actually getting more of the work done using AI, the value prop of your software goes way up,&#8221; explained Rory. &#8220;Instead of saying &#8216;we&#8217;re going to automate a little bit of work,&#8217; now we&#8217;re saying &#8216;we&#8217;re going to literally do the work and you can get rid of all these people.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The explosion in workflow automation isn&#8217;t just about connecting apps anymore\u2014it&#8217;s about AI-powered work execution. &#8220;With the explosion of applications we&#8217;re building and the explosion of things we want to connect with AI, it&#8217;s like an order of magnitude bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Lesson<\/span>:<\/strong> Track companies that could benefit from AI acceleration, then ask which founders &#8220;get it&#8221; fastest and can ship LLM-enabled versions immediately.<\/p>\n<h2>Datadog&#8217;s ~$200M OpenAI Problem (That&#8217;s Actually Not a Problem)<\/h2>\n<p>Datadog had their best quarter ever\u2014$260M net new ARR\u2014but the stock still dropped 10%. Why? In part, concentration risk from their ~$200M annual OpenAI contract.\u00a0 AI customers are voracious customers, but there are a handful of leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If OpenAI continues its trajectory, it could be $520M in a year&#8217;s time &#8212; if it&#8217;s not negotiated down,&#8221; noted Rory. The real insight: companies that can &#8220;co-attach&#8221; to AI infrastructure spending are capturing massive value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Almost the entire GDP growth is AI capex. So if you can co-attach even if you&#8217;re not AI capex, if you&#8217;re not Nvidia, you&#8217;re going to get a pop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Framework<\/span>:<\/strong> Make a list of everything needed to build AI infrastructure. Chips, data centers, power, monitoring, security\u2014then invest in companies that provide those building blocks.<\/p>\n<h2>Palantir: The Impossible Growth Story<\/h2>\n<p>From 12% growth at $2B revenue in 2023 to 45% growth at $4B ARR today. This &#8220;has never happened&#8221; in enterprise software at scale.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player lazyload\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kYVoidMQ5DU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The secret? Palantir positioned itself as &#8220;the AI solution for large corporates.&#8221; When Fortune 100 companies need AI implementations, they can&#8217;t give $10M projects to small startups. They need proven vendors who can &#8220;look the CEO or CFO in the eye and say &#8216;we&#8217;ve done 10 of these.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their US commercial bookings were up 222% at $843M last quarter. &#8220;Big companies need to spend big initiatives with big vendors, and all the other big vendors are old and stodgy like IBM and Accenture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the kicker: CEO Alex Karp said when they&#8217;re 10x bigger (at $40B revenue), they&#8217;ll have 10% fewer employees than today. That&#8217;s the future of B2B companies\u2014massive scale with minimal headcount.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Reality:<\/strong><\/span> At 120x revenue, Palantir is pricing in perfection. But if they maintain 40-50% growth for five years, they&#8217;ll be valued similarly to Google today. The question is whether that level of execution is sustainable.<\/p>\n<h2>The Shopify Efficiency Revolution<\/h2>\n<p>The numbers are staggering: From peak employment of 11,600 in 2022, Shopify cut to 8,100 employees while growing revenue 91%. That&#8217;s 30% fewer people generating nearly double the revenue.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Shopify&#039;s AI Revolution: Adapt or Get Left Behind!\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhoNdDz5WQ8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.saastr.com\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Toby went into beast mode and destroyed the competition. Big Commerce doesn&#8217;t exist. WooCommerce doesn&#8217;t exist anymore.&#8221; The efficiency gains came from AI adoption across the organization, with Shopify now generating $1.3M revenue per employee.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t unique to Shopify. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need half your company. You literally don&#8217;t need half the people working at your company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Hard Truth<\/span>:<\/strong> The coddling era of 2020-2022 is over. &#8220;Take three jobs, work two days from home, life is easy&#8221;\u2014that world no longer exists. The founders who win will be &#8220;ruthless&#8221; like Toby, Zuck, and Karp.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317224 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-scaled.jpeg?resize=710%2C1000&#038;quality=70&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"1000\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-scaled.jpeg 710w, https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-480x676.jpeg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 710px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 710px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 710\/1000;\" \/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317224\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-scaled.jpeg?resize=710%2C1000&#038;quality=70&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-scaled.jpeg 710w, https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-480x676.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 710px, 100vw\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>The Great Reckoning: Who Survives the AI Transition?<\/h2>\n<p>The conversation revealed a brutal reality about employment in the AI era. Companies are deploying AI tools that immediately expose unproductive employees. &#8220;Every single time [an AI sales tool] has been brought in, someone on the sales team has quit the first day. Quit every single time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is clear: AI knows products better than most human employees. &#8220;Have you ever talked to an SDR that even understands the product they sell? Any 22-year-old? Once in my career, have I talked to a 22-year-old SDR that knows the product better than me. It&#8217;s worse with AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Survival Guide<\/span>:<\/strong> Ask yourself\u2014are you actually irreplaceable at your company? Not just as a person, but in terms of unique value creation. If you can&#8217;t answer that clearly, start building those capabilities immediately.<\/p>\n<h2>The One-Person Billion-Dollar Company<\/h2>\n<p>Is it possible? While the literal interpretation seems far-fetched, the broader trend toward extreme operational leverage is real.<\/p>\n<p>One example: SaaStr itself is on track for $20M revenue with just two employees and 10 AI tools. &#8220;It&#8217;s not all better, and it&#8217;s a bit lonely, but we would never go back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The future likely isn&#8217;t one-person companies, but rather 20-40 person billion-dollar companies. &#8220;A core of engineers, a bunch of AIs, and people are going to say &#8216;I don&#8217;t want 100 sales reps.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Trade-off<\/span>:<\/strong> More PLG, more self-serve, more AI orchestration\u2014less human management. &#8220;If you can choose an AI, you&#8217;re going to choose an AI over an unreliable resource.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Venture&#8217;s New Reality: Concentration and Capital Intensity<\/h2>\n<p>The data is stark: highest seed valuations ever, but fewer deals being done. More importantly, there&#8217;s unprecedented concentration in late-stage rounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last couple of quarters, we&#8217;ve literally had to back out one or two deals because they just make the statistics so weird.&#8221; OpenAI&#8217;s $40B round was twice the entire addressable market for many B2B VCs.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t temporary. &#8220;As these companies stay private for longer, there&#8217;s going to continue to be this steady stream of fairly humongous later stage financings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The New Model<\/span>:<\/strong> Growth investors need to see clear paths to 3-5x returns, but the power law still applies\u2014one in ten becomes exceptional. The concentration of capital into AI infrastructure companies provides justification for mega-funds deploying billions into individual companies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. Operational Efficiency Is Non-Negotiable<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shopify: Since 2022: 91% revenue growth, 30% fewer employees<\/li>\n<li>Palantir: Plans 10% fewer employees at 10x current size<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;ruthless&#8221; founders are winning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. AI Infrastructure Spending Drives Everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost entire GDP growth is AI capex<\/li>\n<li>Companies that &#8220;co-attach&#8221; to AI infrastructure capture massive value<\/li>\n<li>Datadog&#8217;s ~$200M OpenAI contract is a feature, not a bug<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. The Employment Reckoning Is Here<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI tools immediately expose unproductive employees<\/li>\n<li>23-30 year olds without specialized skills face the biggest disruption<\/li>\n<li>The new job: Chief Orchestration Officer managing AI systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. Venture Capital Is Concentrating<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mega-rounds are the new normal for AI infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>Traditional diversification models don&#8217;t apply to AI capex<\/li>\n<li>Growth investors can deploy billions into single companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5. Distribution Beats Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chrome&#8217;s value isn&#8217;t the browser\u2014it&#8217;s access to billions of users<\/li>\n<li>Platform lock-in remains powerful even in the AI era<\/li>\n<li>Control the default experience, control the market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Most Quotable Moments<\/h2>\n<p><strong>On Operational Efficiency (Jason Lemkin):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You may not need half your company. Palantir and Shopify are proving it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\"><strong>On Venture Concentration (Harry):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"border-border-200 border-l-4 pl-4\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">&#8220;Index are making everyone feel like shit right now. In particular in Europe, Sequoia and Excel, Excel have to win otherwise the gap widens more and more and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>On Market Reality (Rory):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My big aha is it&#8217;s like dealing with a deranged madman trying to estimate what the street will do. I spend no time on this. Utterly unknowable.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>On the Future of Work (Jason Lemkin):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you can choose an AI, you&#8217;re going to choose an AI over an unreliable resource.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>On Palantir&#8217;s Positioning (Rory):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They can look the CEO or CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the eye and say, &#8216;We&#8217;ve done 10 of these. You give us the $10 million, we&#8217;ll get this puppy done.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sam Altman&#039;s Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? 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Bottom Line Up Front The Bottom Line Up Front: Jason&#8217;s Rule: &#8220;If you haven&#8217;t grown because of AI, you&#8217;ve failed.&#8221; After 18 months since ChatGPT&#8230; <br \/><a class=\"more-link fade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/the-latest-20vcsaastr-gpt-5s-underwhelming-launch-shopifys-91-growth-with-30-fewer-staff-and-why-you-dont-need-half-your-company\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":317235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[]},"categories":[24898,31,24987,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-blog-posts","category-saastr-ai","category-scale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20thm0814-scaled.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&quality=70&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oib2-1kwG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GyJUdR4aUAAkSTk-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317290,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317234\/revisions\/317290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saastr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}