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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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” What Will AI Change in Go-to-Market “It will lead to a next level of transparency for leadership,” Jason answers. For years there’s been a QA space where businesses were manually grading thousands of customer success agents. . It will be a big change and a lot of friction.

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

SaaStr

The Future of AI in Customer Support While many vendors are achieving similar baseline results with AI customer support, Brian believes we’re still early in unlocking its full potential.

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10 Key Lessons from Calendly’s CPO and Head of UX on Building AI that Actually Works

SaaStr

Meeting intensity KPI challenge : Sometimes AI efficiencies can reduce a company’s core metrics (like Calendly’s “meeting intensity”), requiring leadership to make conscientious decisions about value tradeoffs. That’s what Calendly’s leadership team discovered as they embarked on their AI journey.

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

SaaStr

This requires entirely new management skills focused on systems optimization, not just people leadership. The CRO Hiring Playbook Has Forever Changed The interview process for revenue leadership roles now at Owner includes a mandatory AI component. You need weekly refinement cycles and deep involvement from revenue leadership.”

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A16Z: Enterprise AI Spending is Growing 75% a Year.

SaaStr

OpenAI maintains overall market leadership, but the breakdown is telling: 67% of OpenAI users deploy non-frontier models vs. only 41% for Google and 27% for Anthropic. Multi-Model Deployment Is Crushing Single-Vendor Strategies The Hard Data : 37% of enterprises now use 5+ models in production (up from 29% last year). Flash costs $0.26/million

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AI and the Bottom Line with Canva’s CCO: How They Built a $7B Enterprise Motion on 16 Billion AI Interactions

SaaStr

Data-Driven Framework : The same “Data → Signals → Actions” framework guides AI implementation, ensuring AI serves the customer journey rather than replacing human judgment. The Economics of Customer Success One of Rob’s most compelling arguments centers on the economics of customer support.

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How SaaS Pricing Evolves Across Different Company Stages

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As the company expanded its offerings, Nosto introduced modular pricing options, allowing customers to build their own plans by selecting the specific tools and services they needed. The Scaling Stage: Building Market Leadership The scaling stage is where a SaaS company seeks to solidify its position as a market leader.

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