6 Months of AI SDRs: What’s Worked, How They Brought In $1M+ in 90 Days, and the Real Data Everyone’s Asking For
After deploying 5 AI SDRs across inbound, outbound, and follow-up—here’s the actual numbers, unexpected learnings, and what it really takes to make them work Six months ago, we had essentially zero AI SDRs at SaaStr. Today, we’re running five specialized...
Cursor Hit $1B ARR in 24 Months: The Fastest Scaling SaaS Ever?
Cursor just crossed $1B in ARR less than 24 months from launch. And just closed a $2.3 billion Series D at a stunning $29.3 billion valuation. For a company that launched its product … 17 months ago. This isn’t just another funding announcement. This is...
SaaStr + Agentforce: It’s Early, But the Results Are Really, Really Strong
We added Salesforce Agentforce to our AI stack just over a month ago. We’d already added 10+ AI Agents at SaaStr and we didn’t know for sure how it would go. Not because we doubted the technology, but because we had some worries we’d need a...
125 Days, 750,000 Uses, One Realization: Some of Our AI Agents Are Now Truly Part of the Team. Replit v3 Was The First
The other day I presented at Replit on 125 days of building 10+ production apps through vibe coding. Apps that have now been used over 750,000 times. I went in thinking I’d share what I’d learned. I came out with something bigger. The Replit AI agent...
The Accel 2025 Globalscape Report: The Cold, Hard Data on How AI Has Radically Changed B2B
Accel just dropped their 2025 Globalscape report, and it’s packed with real data on where AI and B2B are actually heading. I’ve been through the whole thing, and here are the 10 takeaways that matter most if you’re building or investing in B2B...
Yes, AI Native Wins Today. But It’s Not Too Late. You Can Change. See, E.g., Clio and Gamma
Clio (Founded 2008) and Gamma (Founded 2020) Just Raised at $7.5B Combined. Here’s What They Know About AI That You Don’t. Too much technical data? Too many legacy customers to support? Too many new AI competitors? I hear you. But stop with the excuses....
Traditional SaaS May Be Dying. But It Might Also Be Your Fault.
We had an app we’d been reference customers for — for years. Our case study was on their website. We got them several of the largest customers in B2B via our direct recommendation. We were evangelists. We were part of their success story. Then last year they...
2025 Was The Year Of The AI Budget Explosion: If Your Team Didn’t Capture Any, They Failed
Companies Are Capturing Billions in AI Spend – Where’s Your Share? The team had time. You had time. You had all of 2025. The single biggest shift in IT budgets in a generation is happening right now. AI spending represents roughly 60% of GDP growth in...
How OpenAI Built a Global CS Organization in 18 Months: Vanessa Gatihi’s Playbook for AI-Powered Customer Success
Vanessa Gatihi joined OpenAI as their first customer success hire 18 months ago. Today, she leads a global CS team as Head of AI Deployment & Adoption spanning San Francisco, New York, Munich, Paris, Dublin, London, Singapore, and Korea, serving a thriving...
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Dust – Build Custom AI Agents That Actually Know Your Company’s Data
Dust is a no-code platform that lets anyone in your company build AI agents connected to your tools and data – achieving 70% weekly adoption rates at companies like Doctolib, Qonto, and Clay. Why Dust Matters Right Now If you’re running a B2B SaaS company...
Stop Learning AI. Start Doing AI. The 20+ Agents Running SaaStr
A deep dive with Jason Lemkin (Founder & CEO, SaaStr) and Amelia Ibarra (Chief AI Officer, SaaStr), hosted by Kraig Swensrud (Founder & CEO, Qualified) At Dreamforce 2025, we sat down in the Qualified Studios to talk about what’s actually working in AI...
AI Wins When It Does The GTM Work … People Won’t
Our AI SDR just booked a sponsor meeting for us (six figure deal) on Saturday night at 6:02PM while we were out to dinner 0 humans would do this pic.twitter.com/dJ8vAFolhC — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) October 19, 2025 The Customer Meeting That...
How to Price Your AI-First Product: The Death of SaaS Pricing and the Rise of Transactional Models with Defy Ventures’ Medha Agarwal
Medha Agarwal is a Partner at Defy VC, where she focuses on investments in AI-first and vertical SaaS companies. She shares insights at SaaStr AI Summit 2025 from the front lines of AI-first product pricing, exploring why traditional SaaS models are declining in favor...
AI App of the Week: Assistant UI – The React Library That’s Eating the AI Chat Interface Market
Why 450K+ monthly downloads and Y Combinator backing signal this is the developer tool AI product builders have been waiting for Here’s a question every B2B founder building with AI has wrestled with: How do you get ChatGPT-quality UX into your own product...
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