SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2025

So we’ve rolled out an AI which is pretty epic. It’s live on SaaStr.com itself and you can also access it here and talk to AI Jason about any of 1000s and 1000s of B2B, sales, SaaS, VC, etc. topics: I asked AI Jason what the Top 10 SaaStr posts of all times are. And No, It Wasnt Magic. More Than a Good Rep.”

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SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2025

5 Key Learnings from Scaling from 3 to 75 Go-To-Market Team Members in Less Than 12 Months The latest SaaStr CRO Confidential is out and Sam Blond did a great deep dive with Graham Mareno, VP of Worldwide Sales at Codeium. Create Compelling Economic Incentives For sales talent, compensation is critical. What is Codeium and Windsurf?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The bar has gone up, and it’s not just in AI. Buyers are expecting much more from a product, and yes, AI is accelerating those expectations. Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. So non-tech is strong, we all know AI is strong. 1: AI is Table Stakes.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2025

Have we lost interest in investing in the human side of sales? Not in hiring sales execs themselves, but in giving them more tools to be more efficient. AI has hardly rendered the sales professional obsolete. Salesforce itself is hiring 2,000 sales execs this year to sell its AI platform, AgentForce.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Top Posts of the Week: #1: Salesforce: Actually Were Going to Hire 2,000 Sales Execs Now To Sell AI #2: Gong: $100k Deals Take About 70 Days to Close #3: Why The Greatest Sales Teams Just Kill It On Dec 31. When Everyone Else Has Gone Home. #4:

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

GitHub, founded in 2008, is a leading platform for software development and version control that has made waves since 2018 with its AI Copilot. At this year’s SaaStr AI Summit, GitHub CRO Elizabeth Pemmerl shared how to bring AI products to market at scale successfully. Keeping the door as wide as possible to get feedback.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2024

I know many are talking about AI fueling 1 person, $1B start-ups. So thats probably as efficient as you can get outside of AI magic. If you are sales-driven, youll usually stall out at $1.5m-$2m in ARR or so if you dont start growing the team to the next level, The First 50. I hope that happens. But maybe not so much in SaaS.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 19, 2025

AI Should Kill Contact Me in 2025. 2: Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp #3: Crunchbase: 50% of VC Capital Went to SF Bay Last Year, Q4 Roared Back for Venture Capital #4: 8 Quick Ways to Get More High Quality Leads. Top SaaStr Posts: #1. Its Long Since Time. #2:

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AI is remaking so many categories, but it’s often murky exactly … how. Go Hire That Missing VP! The best way to get out of a hole is to hire a great VP. A great VP of Sales. Well, stop saying you cant hire anyone. And just go finally hire her. Everyone lowered the hiring bar in the Boom.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2025

Salesforce: We Are Hiring 0 Engineers This Year. But Were Growing The Sales Team +20%. Because AI. #3. Your Team Should Be AI Obsessed Right Now. AI SaaS Leader Moveworks Sells for $2.85 AI SaaS Leader Moveworks Sells for $2.85 How Codeium Built A Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine #2.

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TechEmpower SaaS

MARCH 4, 2024

Generative AI is revolutionizing how corporations operate by enhancing efficiency and innovation across various functions. Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2024

How Do You Sift Out the Bitter and Broken Individuals When Hiring? If it’s a role you’ve never hired, find someone great at it and have them do your final interview. For sales, product, or customer success, the best question you could ask is, “What would you do your first couple of weeks?” Don’t hire those people to lead.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2025

4: AI is the Best Thing to Ever Happen to SaaS. Or the Big Mega Industry Events? #4:

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2025

So at SaaStr Annual, Dave Kellogg did a great deep dive on “5 Things Every B2B CEO Needs to Know about Marketing” In the Age of AI it’s even more true today, so I wanted to update our SaaStr take-aways from the deep dive. Better to hire for your specific needs and stage.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Top Posts: #1: Its 2025 And Even Salesforces Sales Team is Kind of Phoning It In (At Least Some Of It) #2: The #1 Reason SaaS Companies Stall Out at $15m-$20m ARR #3: AI is the Best Thing to Ever Happen to SaaS. Its Unlocking Even More Budget #4: Whats Really Going in Venture Today: Deals Are Down, But Big AI Dollars Are Up.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

His view is your sales team teaches your customers how to get value out of your product. Ron explains: “Wehire mostly technical backgrounds, but as our customers get larger and larger, you start to get global account managers, and they’re going to have much more business strategic account management experience.

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SaaStr

JULY 14, 2024

Hiring and Interviewing Tips: Jason emphasizes the importance of interviewing at least 30 candidates for a role and consulting with an expert in the field to interview the final candidate. Product-Led Growth (PLG) vs. Enterprise Sales: Jason discusses the evolution of PLG, noting that it’s essentially freemium with better analytics.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For part one of this Ask Me Anything session, Jason covers everything you need to know about hiring your first VP of Sales, what he really thinks about AI, what the future of lead generation in 2024 looks like, and much more. Q: Should Early-Stage Companies Sprinkle in AI? You can’t hire a magician Head of Product.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2025

Here are the five channels that worked for Rupa: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Social Proof and Trust Building Educational Partnerships and Rupa University Conferences and Event Sponsorships Outbound Sales and Data Quality Lets dive into each. Rupa achieved this by combining AI with a small army of medical doctors and editors.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Perhaps most importantly, Salesforce has leaned deeply into AI … and while the usage is impressive, so far it hasn’t materially changed growth. Salesforce May Be Hiring 1,000+ Reps To Sell AI, But Overall Sales & Marketing Spend is down From 32% of revenue a year ago to 30% today.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 10, 2024

Pricing an AI product will be a defining question in software for the next few years. AI products offer productivity gains. We can observe the market trends today across some of the larger SaaS companies who offer AI pricing. Company Product Base Price AI Price Ratio Github Github Enterprise 21 10 0.67

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. Over 80% of investor money is in AI.

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2024

If you’ve read SaaStr or have been around for the last decade, you might be familiar with some of the repeated GTM mistakes founders tend to make, but the world of hiring, people, scaling, and workplace expectations are significantly different today than they were before March 2020. Don’t make the hire. They weren’t getting any leads.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Getting off the ground is one thing — an easy pitch of being an HR tech startup focused on improving hiring. Hiring is complicated, so you have to build a lot of software to get to $200M ARR. Now, over the next decade, they need to think about other things their customers do in hiring that aren’t done well and could be scaled.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. How did they get here?

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SaaStr

MAY 7, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day, Siqi Chen, founder, and CEO of Runway , discussed his belief of why every role will become a prompt engineering role, along with some no-code AI tips showing how to build products without knowing how to code. AI is a force multiplier for human capital. “I 3 Ways Runway Uses AI Prompts 1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities SaaStr Annual brings together thousands of SaaS, Cloud and AI executives, founders, VCs, and industry leaders under one roof across our 40+ acre campus, May 13-15 in SF Bay! Investor Connections and Funding Opportunities — And $5m AI VC Pitch Stage!! And the VCs that want to fund them!

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But couldn’t AI eliminate the need to build such a big team and be more effective than having a 22-year-old figure out how to treat an account and generate a demo? AI vs. an Outbound Team Many reference that outbound is dead , and AI will replace SDRs first, followed by AEs. Account fit. Matt doesn’t believe that.

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SaaStr

APRIL 20, 2024

Marketing hackers, sales hackers, product hackers. We went pretty deep on: The real role of AI in marketing today Does everyone just want to be a strategist now? Will AI let ICs do more, with fewer managers? Automation is more important than AI for businesses, especially in the current labor shortage.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 15, 2024

10+ Signs of a Mediocre Hire #2. 83% Percent of You Havent Gotten AI SDRs to Work Yet Top Vids and Pods: #1: “How to Successfully Bring AI Products to Market at Scale with GitHubs CRO” #2. 5 Things That Are Working and 5 Things That Arent in B2B SaaS AI with Ironclad’s CEO and a16z #4. Top Posts: #1.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Is outbound sales dead? When sales slow how do you keep the team motivated and push through? How important are channel partnerships for sales and revenue? When should founders make their first executive hires? ” Question #2: Is outbound sales dead? Lets find out the answers. It said ‘Jason M.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

People have said “AI” more this year than any other year combined. Everyone is looking forward to what AI can do for them in business. PST, the CIO and SVP of IT at Freshworks, Prasad Ramakrishnan, shares five ways organizations can leverage AI to solve problems and grow. But this AI wave is slightly different.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2024

The post The Top 8 SaaStr Tips to Building an Effective First Sales Team (per Perplexity) appeared first on SaaStr. I think it did a pretty good job The summaries we do might be better, but this is a great place to start. I think it did a pretty good job The summaries we do might be better, but this is a great place to start.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 12, 2024

We just wrote up how some of the biggest changes of SaaS are now coming, specifically in Customer Success and Sales. ” Prediction #3: CSM Hiring Doesn’t Bounce All The Way Back Things are bouncing back, in 2024, not all the way back, so efficiency still matters. They paused hiring for a year (rather than cut) and got profitable.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

How do you build GTM efficiency in SMB sales? Lesson #1: Just Say No Once he joined, Kyle quickly discovered that Owner had a leaky bucket and had either bad or no targeting on prospects, was closing a lot of poor-fit customers, and there were a lot of miss set expectations from sales so customer handoff was sketchy at best.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 6, 2023

SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin chats with Box CEO and Co-Founder Aaron Levie to talk about what’s new at Box, SaaS fatigue, hiring a new COO, operating margins and efficiency, the future of AI, and what to expect for 2024. On Hiring a New COO This is Box’s third COO in 14-15 years. That’s what the COO is for.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

In this AI moment we’re in, there are still many moments in scaling a company where intuition still matters. Hiring for Customer Success When Braze was looking for their first customer success hires, you couldn’t find a CSM with seven years of experience in software because those people didn’t exist yet. This isn’t new.

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