
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
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