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The GTM Stack Anthropic Uses From Its Head of Industries: Surprisingly Familiar Names. Used In New Ways.
May 31, 2026
You'd assume Anthropic, of all companies, would be running on some self-grown, cutting-edge AI-native sales platform. Maybe a Salesforce killer they built themselves. Maybe Claude baked into the protocol layer of every workflow. They aren't. At least not yet. Claude...
A Deep Dive With the Replit Team on Our Agents: 10K, QBee, the AGI-ish Bloomberg Beta Email, and Programming in English (For Real)
May 31, 2026
The Replit team came out in force to SaaStr AI 2026 (from the CEO to the CRO and the President!). They also in an unguarded moment interviewed me on stage and off stage about how we're actually running SaaStr AI with our agents. The real, unglamorous, in-the-weeds...
Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Mistake New Sales Leaders Make?
May 31, 2026
Dear SaaStr: What's the #1 Mistake New Sales Leaders Make? Let me just summarize my #1 observation here: the top mistake first-time sales managers make is recruiting. In that — they can’t do it. They can't recruit great reps. They can recruit some mediocre ones, but...
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The GTM Stack Anthropic Uses From Its Head of Industries: Surprisingly Familiar Names. Used In New Ways.
By Jason Lemkin | May 31, 2026
You’d assume Anthropic, of all companies, would be running on some self-grown, cutting-edge AI-native sales platform. Maybe a Salesforce killer they built themselves. Maybe Claude baked into the protocol layer of every workflow. They aren’t. At least not yet. Claude is baked into their stage, it’s the substrate. But it’s used to connect to the…
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A Deep Dive With the Replit Team on Our Agents: 10K, QBee, the AGI-ish Bloomberg Beta Email, and Programming in English (For Real)
By Jason Lemkin | May 31, 2026
The Replit team came out in force to SaaStr AI 2026 (from the CEO to the CRO and the President!). They also in an unguarded moment interviewed me on stage and off stage about how we’re actually running SaaStr AI with our agents. The real, unglamorous, in-the-weeds operational reality of running a B2B media +…
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Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Mistake New Sales Leaders Make?
By Jason Lemkin | May 31, 2026
Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Mistake New Sales Leaders Make? Let me just summarize my #1 observation here: the top mistake first-time sales managers make is recruiting. In that — they can’t do it. They can’t recruit great reps. They can recruit some mediocre ones, but that’s about it. It is incredibly hard to figure…
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