by Jason Lemkin | Jun 5, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, SaaStr.Ai
When Elena Verna, Head of Growth at Lovable, took the stage at SaaStr AI, she’d just hit her one-year anniversary at the company. She walked through the question many B2B leaders are wrestling with: when AI writes 80%+ of your code and anyone can vibe code your...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 5, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, SaaStr.Ai
Inside the AI Agent Stacks at SaaStr, Owner.com & Klaviyo | SaaStr AI Annual 2026 Final Day Three companies. Three different stages. Three different markets. But all three have done the same thing in 2025 and 2026: rebuilt their internal operations and their...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 5, 2026 | AI App of Week, Blog Posts
The Bottom Line: Pylon is the support platform built from scratch for B2B, where the real conversations happen in Slack and Teams, accounts are worth six and seven figures, and “deflection” is the wrong goal. AssemblyAI, Writer, Cognition, Deel, and...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog Posts
The latest 20VC roundtable with Harry Stebbings, Rory and Jason ran through nine of the biggest stories in B2B and AI right now. Anthropic filing to go public the same week it closed a $65B round. Cognition at $26B. The best public software earnings week in two years....
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 4, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, Customer Success, SaaStr.Ai
The fastest-growing companies in B2B + AI are not running the customer success playbook the rest of the market spent a decade building. At the FDE / CS Summit at SaaStr AI Annual 2026, leaders from the companies setting the pace got specific about what they’ve...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog Posts
For 13 years, we’ve published 4,000+ posts, run hundreds of sessions, and shared just about everything we’ve learned about building B2B and now B2B + AI companies. But it’s mostly scattered. A post here. A video there. A deck from three years ago you...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 4, 2026 | Blog Posts, Sales |
Dear SaaStr: What Should The First 2 Weeks Look Like For a New VP of Sales? The first two weeks for a successful VP of Sales in a B2B company should be laser-focused on understanding the business, the team, and the customers. All three. Here’s what they should...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, SaaStr.Ai, The Agents
We run SaaStr AI on 3 humans and 21+ AI agents. At SaaStr AI 2026 we did something we’d never done before: we pulled up the back ends of our top agents live, in front of the room, and went through how they really work. Not the demo version. The real version,...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog Posts, Fundraising |
So we recently did a SaaStr survey on if folks would pick the same VCs if they have to do it all over again. The learnings aren’t surprising, but they are interesting: only 23% would pick the same VCs for sure. Now there is a lot of nuance beyond this poll. The...
by Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2026 | Blog Posts, Sponsored Posts
We run SaaStr with 3 humans and 21+ AI agents. Two of the companies that just presented are already in our own stack. Ava from Artisan sent 7,000 cold emails for us in a six-week stretch. The “Amelia AI” running on our site is Piper from Qualified. So when...
