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The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

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The Official SaaStr Podcast is the latest and greatest from the world of SaaStr, interviewing the most prominent operators and investors to discover their tips, tactics and strategies to attain success in the fiercely competitive world of SaaS. On the side of the operators, we center around getting from $0 to $100m ARR faster, what it takes to scale successfully and what are the core elements of hiring. As for the investors, we learn what metrics they hone in on when examining SaaS business, what type of metrics excites them and what they look for in SaaS founders.

Episodes

SaaStr 869: How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced in an Hour and the $14 Migration.

about 17 hours ago

1h 9m


SaaStr 868: Software Isn't Dead. It's Gotten Harder with Scale Venture Partners' Rory O'Driscoll

Jul. 15

37m


SaaStr 867: $0 to $500M ARR in 13 Months. Inside Higgsfield's Viral AI Growth with Alex Mashrabov, co-founder and CEO

Jul. 10

36m


SaaStr 866: Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Jul. 8

49m


SaaStr 865: The Agents #008: Agents Are Merging, Not Multiplying. Plus, Sam Blond on Why Outbound Isn't Dead.

Jul. 1

1h 12m


SaaStr 864: How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step with SaaStr's Chief AI Officer

Jun. 26

31m


SaaStr 863: The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks' Co-Founder and SVP of Field Engineering

Jun. 24

28m


SaaStr 862: The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead

Jun. 19

49m


SaaStr 861: Our AI Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. But Does He Have Too Many Guardrails?

Jun. 17

1h 8m


SaaStr 860: Tired vs. Wired: $4 Trillion in IPOs Coming, $100B in M&A, and Why the SaaSpocalypse is Over

Jun. 12

50m


SaaStr 859: The $257 Employee: What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder

Jun. 10

47m


SaaStr 858: Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna

Jun. 5

39m


SaaStr 857: The Agents #006 Inside SaaStr's 20+ AI Agent Stack: 2.25M Sessions, 614 Meetings, $2M in Revenue

Jun. 2

55m


SaaStr 856: AI-Native GTM 101: The 5 Decisions Every Founder Has to Get Right with Owner's CRO

May. 26

43m


SaaStr 855: How Anthropic Rebuilt Its Sales Org From Scratch When Demand Went Vertical with Eleanor Dorfman, Anthropic Head of Industries

May. 21

30m


SaaStr 854: The Agents #005, Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe?

May. 19

1h 18m


SaaStr 853: The Agents #004: Tragedy Apps, Too Many AI SDRs, and Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an Agent

May. 6

1h 22m


SaaStr 852: The Agents #003, Our Agent Now Runs Campaigns on Weekends, Plus Why We Pay More for Salesforce Than Ever Before

Apr. 29

1h 17m


SaaStr 851: The Agents, Episode 002. Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions

Apr. 22

1h 16m


SaaStr 850: The Agents, Episode 1: Who Maintains All This?

Apr. 15

1h 8m


SaaStr 849: How We Built Our AI VP of Customer Success with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO

Apr. 8

1h 5m


E848

SaaStr 848: How AI Is Rewiring Sales: Quota, Retention & What's Actually Working with SaaStr, Salesforce and Mangomint

Apr. 1

42m


SaaStr 847: How MangoMint Increased Win Rates with an AI-Powered Stack

Mar. 25

31m


SaaStr 846: 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO

Mar. 18

1h 5m


E845

SaaStr 845: How SaaStr Built a $5 million Pipeline Machine with 1.5 Humans and 20 AI Agents with SaaStr's Chief AI Officer and Momentum from Salesforce's VP of GTM

Mar. 11

41m


SaaStr 844: The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer

Mar. 4

55m


SaaStr 843: Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.

Feb. 25

43m


SaaStr 842: The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Build vs Buy with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO

Feb. 18

1h


SaaStr 841: Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.

Feb. 11

32m


SaaStr 840: From 1 Agent to 20+: The Reality of Managing Multiple AI Agents Across Your GTM with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO

Feb. 4

1h 3m


SaaStr 839: Why Most SaaS Companies Will Fail at AI (And How to Avoid It) with Intercom's CPO

Jan. 28

42m


SaaStr 838: The Present and Future of AI in Sales and GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Owner's CRO

Jan. 21

56m


SaaStr 837: 10 Things To Do Right Now to Become AI Native with Filevine's CEO & Founder

Jan. 14

28m


SaaStr 836: The Step-By-Step Playbook for Building AI-Powered GTM Teams with Personio's CRO

Jan. 7

52m


SaaStr 835: AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Jan. 2

56m


SaaStr 834: Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott, and Harry Stebbings, Founder of 20VC

Dec. 24

35m


SaaStr 833: AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Dec. 17

54m


SaaStr 832: How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer

Dec. 10

48m


SaaStr 831: How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's Chief AI Officer and CEO & Founder

Nov. 26

53m


SaaStr 830: 6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer

Nov. 21

1h 25m


SaaStr 829: A Hands-On Guide to SaaStr's New AI Tools with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Nov. 12

26m


SaaStr 828: The AI Revolution in B2B: Insights from SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and SaaStr Chief AI Officer Amelia Lerutte, and Qualified's CEO and Founder Kraig Swensrud

Nov. 5

44m


SaaStr 826: Why Only "WTF" Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures

Oct. 29

36m


SaaStr 825: The State of AI + Software: Where It's Going - Fast

Oct. 22

49m


SaaStr 825: How the AI Era Has Directly Impacted Marketing and Sales with Snowflake's CMO and Founding CRO

Oct. 15

40m


SaaStr 824: VC in the AI Era - Exactly What's Getting Funded, Why & When with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Oct. 8

30m


SaaStr 823: Is GTM Really Dead?! with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

Oct. 3

46m


SaaStr 822: SaaStr's Top 10+ AI Agents: AI SDR, AI BDR, AI RevOps + More: The How, The Who, The Why with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

Sep. 24

54m


SaaStr 821: Swapping Stories - Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier's CEO and Co-Founder Wade Foster

Sep. 17

37m


SaaStr 820: The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding Without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Sep. 12

54m


SaaStr 819: Swapping Notes on the AI Revolution in Marketing with G2's CMO Sydney Sloan

Sep. 10

31m


SaaStr 818: Anthropic, Cursor, Fal & Bessemer: The Realities of Scaling AI

Sep. 5

30m


SaaStr 817: What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Aug. 27

48m


SaaStr 816: PLG to Enterprise to SMB: Insights from Calendly's CEO

Aug. 20

31m


SaaStr 815: Redpoint Ventures Playbook: How Top VCs Are Really Investing in AI

Aug. 13

31m


SaaStr 814: How to Build Top-Performing Sales Orgs with OpenAI's GTM Leader Maggie Hott

Aug. 6

41m


SaaStr 813: From Startup to $11B: ServiceTitan's CRO Breaks Down Their Sales Playbook

Jul. 30

32m


SaaStr 812: What's Working Now: AI's Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM

Jul. 23

47m


SaaStr 811: Marketing in the Age of AI with Wiz's CMO Raaz Herzberg

Jul. 16

41m


SaaStr 810: AI and the Bottom Line, How Canva Turns Freemium into Conversions with Canva's CCO Rob Giglio

Jul. 10

38m


SaaStr 809: Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud with Box's CEO and Co-Founder, IBM's VP for AI and SaaStr's CEO and Founder

Jul. 2

38m


SaaStr 808: AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO

Jun. 25

25m


SaaStr 807: Snowflake's CEO on the AI Data Cloud, Partner Strategy, and What's Next

Jun. 18

39m


SaaStr 806: How The Smartest Founders Are Already Winning with AI: SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin on My First Million

Jun. 15

45m


SaaStr 805: CRO Confidential - 5 Ways AI Has Already Changed SaaS Sales Forever with Perplexity's CBO. Hosted by Sam Blond

Jun. 11

34m


SaaStr 804: AI and The Future of Sales, Marketing & CS with HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan

Jun. 4

52m


SaaStr 803: AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Really Changes Everything with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton

May. 28

59m


SaaStr 802: SaaS + AI: It's Time to Move Much Faster with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

May. 21

34m


SaaStr 801: AI, M&A, and the Future of SaaS: Lessons from Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO & Co-Founder of Salesforce

May. 2

47m


SaaStr 800: 10 Ways AI Is Going to Change Sales. For Real with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Apr. 25

1h 3m


SaaStr 799: The Series A Landscape in 2025: Insights from Chemistry VC's Ethan Kurzweil

Apr. 18

1h 2m


SaaStr 798: The Top 10 Reasons to Come to 2025 SaaStr Annual May 13-15 in SF Bay with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

Apr. 11

15m


SaaStr 797: GTM in 2025: How It's Changed, How It's Changing, and What Hasn't Changed (Yet) with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond

Apr. 2

1h 2m


SaaStr 796: The Secrets Inside Google Cloud's Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing

Mar. 26

36m


SaaStr 795: The AI Impact on Banking and Finance with CEO and Co-founder at Treasury Prime, Chris Dean

Mar. 19

39m


SaaStr 794: The Top 10 Customer Success Metrics Investors Care About in 2025 with Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

Mar. 14

35m


SaaStr 793: The 10-Point Checklist For When You Sell Your Company with David Frankel Managing Partner at Founder Collective and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Mar. 12

42m


SaaStr 792: Why I'm Scared to Buy New SaaS Apps Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Mar. 7

24m


SaaStr 791: CRO Confidential: How Codeium Built A Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine with VP of Worldwide Sales, Graham Moreno

Mar. 5

44m


SaaStr 790: AI at Scale: 8 Learnings from monday.com Co-Founder and Co-Ceo Eran Zinman and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Feb. 28

36m


SaaStr 789: 10 Things No One Tells You About Getting Acquired for $1.5B Steve Mitzenmacher, Former Vice President Corporate Development, Own Company

Feb. 26

33m


SaaStr 788: The Real Data on What it Takes to Go Big and Eventually IPO with Meritech Capital

Feb. 21

26m


SaaStr 787: The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Feb. 19

37m


SaaStr 786: Going Long: How Procore's Founder Tooey Courtemanche Built a Billon-Dollar SaaS Empire Over 23 Years

Feb. 14

44m


SaaStr 785: The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe's CBO, Jeanne Dewitt Grosser, and Checkr's COO, Lindsey Scrase

Feb. 12

24m


SaaStr 784: From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship

Feb. 7

33m


SaaStr 783: How to Build a World-Class Customer Success Machine - Top Lessons from the CRO of Notion and VP of CS at GitHub

Feb. 5

23m


SaaStr 782: The Future of AI in B2B SaaS: Insights from Synthesia's CEO and Theory Ventures. Hosted by SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

Jan. 31

52m


SaaStr 781: The RevOps Playbook: Owner.com CRO's Secrets to Scaling

Jan. 29

40m


SaaStr 780: 9 Things You Can Do to Grow Faster this Year with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Jan. 24

35m


SaaStr 789: What to Expect from a New CRO with Kathy Lord, CRO at Zensai and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder

Jan. 22

35m


SaaStr 788: Going Multi-Product in the Age of AI with Webflow, Rubrik, Zoom, and ProductBoard

Jan. 17

24m


SaaStr 787: 10 Ways Sales is Different in Vertical SaaS with Mangomint's VP of Sales Marchelle Mooney

Jan. 15

41m


SaaStr 786: Adding AI to SaaS: Inside the AI Product Strategies of Figma, Cloudflare, GitHub and Ramp

Jan. 10

48m


SaaStr 785: Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

Jan. 8

41m


SaaStr 784: What Really Works When Hiring VPs and Executive Teams with HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan and SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Jan. 3

37m


SaaStr 783: HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets and AI (Part 1)

Dec. 27

44m


SaaStr 782: How to Train Your Sales Leaders: Key Learnings from HubSpot and BILL with Michelle Benfer

Dec. 20

41m


SaaStr 781: How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin

Dec. 18

38m


SaaStr 780: From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Dec. 13

41m