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Product-led Growth in an AI-driven SaaS Economy

SaaSBoomi Editorial Team · SaaSBoomi Free Beginner India

Updates the PLG argument for products where AI does part of the onboarding, with the engagement loop and self-service enablement framing that Indian teams are building against right now.

  • The martech landscape grew from about 150 companies in 2011 to about 11,038 in 2023.
  • 53 percent of buyers would prefer to buy with no sales interaction at all.
  • PLG is not product-manager-led growth, it needs sales, marketing, design and engineering together.
  • Stripe moved toward PLG by adding no-code building in place of hands-on enterprise setup.
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The question it answers

  1. What does product-led growth actually mean, and how is it different from just having a free trial?

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