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The Future of AI in SaaS Sales with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin

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On the topic of building SaaS companies, Henry kicks off the conversation with: “I think a lot of bootstrapped founders who are less capital infused have to actually be great at developing their people. “The best hack,” Jason adds, “is not recruiting one management team. It’s recruiting five or six.”

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AI, Sales + GTM in 2025/2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton

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By the end of this quarter, team members who aren’t genuinely AI-curious should be let go. The 50/50 Team Is Coming Fast. CROs will need to manage teams that are 50% AI agents and 50% human by end of year. The performance distribution in sales teams will become dramatically wider, forcing tough talent strategy decisions.

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The Keys to Getting to $500M ARR In Just 7 Years with Attentive’s CEO

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Turn Your Customers Into Your Marketing Engine The second breakthrough was making customer success the core growth engine. The KPI Alignment System Have customers email explicit performance expectations Build custom reporting dashboards Weekly cross-team optimization meetings Formal performance reviews 2.

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The Real Reason 50%+ of Our Sales Team is Now AI (And What We Learned)

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More than 50% of our little sales team at SaaStr is now AI. Generic Outreach at Scale : Watching team members send the same templated message to hundreds of prospects, then genuinely wondering why response rates were sub-1%. What This Means for Sales Teams We’re not advocating for replacing all humans with AI. :).

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SaaStr AI App of the Week: Flatfile AI-Powered Data Migration

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Then your customer success team sends the dreaded Slack message: “The new client uploaded their CSV file and… it’s a disaster. But here’s what makes them special: they’ve turned the traditionally painful process of data import into something that actually delights customers. Even worse?

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The Hard Truth About SaaS Revenue Durability: 80% of Post-IPO Companies Don’t Compound in Value

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The 2021 Hangover: When Good Bets Go Bad The SaaS investment landscape of 2021 feels like a different universe. Fast forward to today, and many investors are sitting on portfolios full of companies that weren’t necessarily “bad” bets—they were logical investments in rapidly growing businesses that simply hit a wall.

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The $939B Question: Is AI Eating SaaS or Feeding It?

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The Infrastructure Bypass Midmarket software companies are caught in a “pressure cooker” with fast-moving AI startups developing applications far more rapidly than traditional software companies on one side, and tech giants investing billions in proprietary AI tools on the other.