The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors

<p>High inference costs are OK—if they make your product so viral and so competitive it almost sells itself</p><p>Here’s the counterintuitive insight that’s reshaping how the smartest AI founders think about unit...

<p>There’s a growing wave of AI agent skepticism on LinkedIn right now. And some of it is earned. A lot of founders bought an AI SDR, didn’t train it, and got garbage results. Then they posted about how “AI agents don’t...

<p>If Growth Isn’t Accelerating, You’re Not an AI Company. And 9 Other Hard Truths for SaaS in 2026.</p><p>I had a great conversation with the TBPN crew the other day, and we covered a lot of ground — from the state of...

<p>A SaaStr AI deep dive with Sam Gutmann, CEO of Own, on building a billion-dollar backup company by saying “no” to almost everything. He joined Harpinder Singh (Partner, Innovation Endeavors) to share the whole story...

<p>Paul Adams is Chief Product Officer at Intercom, leading Product Management, Product Design, Data Science, and Research. </p><p>He joined when Intercom was just a 14-person company after first advising the startup...

<p>Ryan Anderson, CEO of Filevine, shared their AI transformation playbook at SaaStr AI London. Here’s the thing: their new AI revenue now exceeds their SaaS revenue on a quarter-over-quarter basis. This is the...

<p>Philip Lacor is the CRO of Personio, a $3B+ HR and payroll platform with 1,500 employees, 15,000 customers, and a 400-person sales team. He shared their AI transformation journey at SaaStr AI London — and the...

<p>Jason Lemkin led the seed round via SaaStr Fund in unicorn Owner.com, an AI solution revolutionizing how small restaurants manage their business. Kyle Norton joined shortly thereafter, and after a slow few months...

<p>At SaaStr AI London, Amelia and I went deep on our AI SDR journey. We shared all our data, all the emails we’ve sent, all the performance metrics—everything. And the response was overwhelming.</p><p>But here’s the...

<p>I did an open AMA at SaaStr London last week, a classic part of each SaaStr AI event. But this one was different. It was urgency to the max.</p><p>The room was packed with founders, CROs, and marketers who all seemed...

<p>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</p><p>Six months ago, we had essentially zero AI SDRs at...

<p>Ahead of SaaStr AI London on Dec 1-2 (See you there!) we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite sessions from our European events. It was so great when Olivier Pomel, founder CEO of Datadog, joined us as they...

<p>We’re back! Harry, Rory and Jason!</p><p>The venture capital playbook is broken. Not bent — broken. In the latest 20VC x SaaStr episode, Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll dissect why even Sequoia is...

<p>By the end of Q3, we’ll had 10 distinct AI agents running in production at SaaStr. 20 if you including less critical ones. Not as a tech experiment or marketing stunt, but as core members of our revenue and...

<p>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...