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HubSpot Co-Founder and Chairman Brian Halligan on SaaS Markets, Board Meetings, and AI’s Impact

SaaStr

Here are the key takeaways from part 1 of this interview. Reflecting on Company Outcomes as a Founding CEO We started with Brian flipping the tables a bit and asking Jason a question to kick off the interview: “I know this is a podcast supposed to be interviewing me, but do you regret selling your company?”

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

SaaStr

“You’re hiring a new VP of sales and you’re on your 20th interview. “If you look at the homepage of everyone doing customer support software, like Zendesk, Intercom, or Gorgias and you squint, you know what they all say? We give up too early Henry explains. That you can lay off 40 percent of your team.

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Breaking Into Asia? Benchmarking Data and Insights on SaaS Subscriptions in Asia

FastSpring

Offering widely-used local payment options — such as AliPay or WeChat Pay — helps reduce friction at checkout and boosts customer satisfaction, leading to higher renewal rates. Invest in Customer Support to Drive Retention Retaining annual subscribers requires ongoing support.

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Our Worst Vendor Launched a Great New Feature Today. And Just Like That—I’m Back

SaaStr

Find that magical 10x feature that will truly delight, surprise and improve the lives of your existing customers. Listen to the Exit Interviews Our vendor finally built this feature because they started taking cancellation calls seriously. It’s (Almost) Never Too Late to Save a Customer The key lesson?

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Why SaaStr’s AI is So Good: Tons of Data. Tons of Training. And Daily QA.

SaaStr

Because if OpenAI is a company that sells token predictions, executives don’t know what to do with it; if it’s a company that answers customer support questions, moderates a forum, helps write code, summarizes emails, etc., it’s a company whose use cases are too broad to connect to any specific customer.

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

SaaStr

The CRO Hiring Playbook Has Forever Changed The interview process for revenue leadership roles now at Owner includes a mandatory AI component. They’ve increased revenue-generating activity time by 25-30% by automating CRM updates, note-taking, and pipeline management.

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Customer Research 101: The Complete Guide for SaaS

User Pilot

It could include conducting user interviews and surveys, analyzing product usage data, and tracking customer feedback , to name a few. In action, customer research in SaaS could look something like examining support tickets to uncover recurring issues or feature requests , like consistent asks for better reporting features.

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