The Ascent Newsletter | Q2 2024

The Ascent Newsletter: Growth Frameworks and Strategies to Power Your Company's Climb

In this issue of The Ascent, we cover considerations for choosing the right large language model to power your AI initiatives, share a framework for crafting effective metrics, and offer insights on structuring your RevOps organization to drive maximum impact.

Operationalizing AI: Considerations for Choosing a Commercial vs. Open-Source LLM

Growth-stage companies across sectors are exploring ways to incorporate generative AI for both internal and customer-facing solutions. In this latest installment of our series on Operationalizing AI, we address key considerations for evaluating which LLM solution is best suited for your AI-powered initiatives.

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Crafting Effective Metrics: A Guide for Technology Leaders and Beyond

Across functions and industries, metrics are vital for measuring and understanding the health of your business and productivity of your teams, but not all metrics are created equal. Summit’s Technologist-in-Residence, Tim Kohn, shares three key components of an effective metric.

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Podcast: The Relationship Between the CRO and RevOps

Summit Advisory Partner Tim Strickland and Scott Sutton, CEO of Summit-Backed Later, share their insights on scaling strategic and efficient sales organizations within growth-stage businesses.

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Summit Partners News

Dr. David Krajicek Joins Summit Partners as Executive-in-Residence

Dr. Krajicek will work alongside Summit’s Growth Products & Services team to expand thematic work in the data and analytics sectors.

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A Bite With… Morgan Buehler Zanotti, Summit Partners Executive-in-Residence

In this Q&A with Nosh.com, Ms. Zanotti shares perspective on building growth businesses in the functional foods and health & wellness sectors.

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Insights to Support Growth

Explore perspectives, growth strategies and stories informed and inspired by our experiences working with companies and teams across the Summit Partners portfolio.

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The information provided in this newsletter, including information regarding Summit Partners' current and historical portfolio companies, is not intended to recommend any company or investment described herein and is not an offer or sale of any security or investment product or investment advice. The information provided herein is intended to offer ideas to executives and operators seeking to build a growth company. An alphabetical list of Summit Partners' growth equity portfolio companies can be found here.

Stories from the Climb

At Summit, it’s the stories that inspire us – the problems being solved and the different paths each team takes to grow a business. Stories from the Climb is a series dedicated to celebrating and sharing the challenges of building a growth company. For more Stories and other Summit perspectives, please visit our Growth Company Resource Center.

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