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

SaaStr

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

SaaStr

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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Customer Support is being turned upside down. Here’s what you need to do about it.

Intercom, Inc.

The internet is also driving an explosion in customer choice, allowing them to easily switch to businesses who provide better experiences. Delivering those better experiences requires a fundamentally new way to do customer support, a messenger-based approach that works at internet scale.

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Help desk metrics: Elevate your customer support with the right insights

Intercom, Inc.

But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? Data alone won’t produce results, but it will help you to contextualize customer behavior and feedback to provide better service faster. 12 help desk metrics to track for more effective customer support.

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20 YC Startups Demoing at SaaStr 2025 Pushing the AI Frontier! From Abundant AI to Mosaic to Veriflow and More!!

SaaStr

Companies can meet stringent quality requirements at a fraction of the cost of in-house teams, while accelerating their AI initiatives. Agentin: Autonomous Agents for Customer Support What They Do : Agentin has built an autonomous agent platform that handles complex customer support workflows from end-to-end without human intervention.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges.

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How to keep KPIs meaningful for your customer support team

Intercom, Inc.

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. When I first started to work at Intercom as a Customer Support Representative (CSR), KPIs were completely foreign to me. But KPIs carry the risk of seeming impersonal. What KPIs should you track?