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      <title><![CDATA[How Far Up the Stack Do You Go?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Salesforce's most enduring value has never been its user interface. As the experience layer decouples from the platform, the real question isn't build versus buy the UI — it's how far up the stack you go before you leave the governance umbrella.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The SaaSpocalypse Isn't What You Think]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SaaS isn't dying. But the moats are shallower than the market assumed — and $2 trillion in corrections is the market catching up to that reality.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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