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Dear SaaStr: When Should a Startup Hire its First Sales Person, and What Should Their Profile Look Like?
Sep 14, 2026
https://youtu.be/SudPdHV2INQ Dear SaaStr: When Should a Startup Hire its First Sales Person, and What Should Their Profile Look Like? We’ve talked a lot about this on SaaStr, let me summarize my top learnings from 15+ years Try to close at least 10–20 customers...
Harvey Puts a Former Practicing Lawyer in Every Deployment. About 180 of Them. Here’s How That Model Works
Sep 13, 2026
Everybody in B2B AI is rediscovering forward deployed engineers right now. Palantir ran the model for two decades, OpenAI built a team, and everyone has figured out agents don't deploy themselves effectively. Not well at least, not yet at least. Harvey runs two...
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Sumble. The Kaggle Founders Rebuilt Sales Intelligence Around Context, Not Contacts
Sep 13, 2026
by Jason Lemkin | AI App of Week, Blog Posts The Next Generation App To Learn What's Really Happening In Your Target Accounts Sumble is a knowledge graph of what's actually happening inside your target accounts. Not "does this company use Snowflake," but which team...
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Dear SaaStr: When Should a Startup Hire its First Sales Person, and What Should Their Profile Look Like?
By Jason Lemkin | September 14, 2026
Dear SaaStr: When Should a Startup Hire its First Sales Person, and What Should Their Profile Look Like? We’ve talked a lot about this on SaaStr, let me summarize my top learnings from 15+ years Try to close at least 10–20 customers yourself first, before you hire a sales rep. You can’t teach them how…
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Harvey Puts a Former Practicing Lawyer in Every Deployment. About 180 of Them. Here’s How That Model Works
By Jason Lemkin | September 13, 2026
Everybody in B2B AI is rediscovering forward deployed engineers right now. Palantir ran the model for two decades, OpenAI built a team, and everyone has figured out agents don’t deploy themselves effectively. Not well at least, not yet at least. Harvey runs two versions of FDEs, and the interesting one isn’t the classic technical FDE…
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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Sumble. The Kaggle Founders Rebuilt Sales Intelligence Around Context, Not Contacts
By Jason Lemkin | September 13, 2026
by Jason Lemkin | AI App of Week, Blog Posts The Next Generation App To Learn What’s Really Happening In Your Target Accounts Sumble is a knowledge graph of what’s actually happening inside your target accounts. Not “does this company use Snowflake,” but which team uses it, who runs that team, how many people report…
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Schmoozing Is Dead, Agents Are Hitting 120% of Humans, and Growth Is the Only Thing That Matters: 10 Things From the Closing Q&A at SaaStr AI Annual 2026
May 17, 2026
We just wrapped SaaStr AI Annual 2026, and the closing Q&A on Day 3 ended up being one of the most engaged of the whole gathering. No script, no prepared deck, just an hour-and-a-half of questions from the audience on the topics most on their mind....
Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales?
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Dear SaaStr: What Was the Toughest Rejection You Ever Had in Sales? The hardest rejection I’ve had in sales was around renewals. Especially ones I thought we really had earned. But still lost. In particular, in the early days of EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we had a...
Dear SaaStr: What Is the Playbook for a Successful Customer Success Team?
May 10, 2025
Dear SaaStr: What Is the Playbook for a Successful Customer Success Team? A good playbook for customer success is all about driving retention, expansion, and customer happiness while making it scalable: Hire Truly Product-Savvy Customer Success Managers at First Focus...
AI at Scale: 8 Learnings from monday.com Co-Founder and Co-Ceo Eran Zinman
Feb 28, 2025
monday.com Co-CEO and Co-Founder Eran Zinman recently sat down with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin to share his insights on their journey, including how they’ve leveraged AI, maintained growth, and expanded into multiple product lines.
The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin did a vibe check into the state of SaaS, AI, venture funding, and the rollercoaster of building a business in 2025.
Dear SaaStr: Can an Entrepreneur Back Out of a Signed Term Sheet Without Damaging Their Reputation?
Dec 9, 2024
Dear SaaStr: Can an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging their reputation? In my experience — Yes, probably. As a founder, you can back out of a term sheet if something is off, or even if you just get another offer you prefer. There is a lot...


