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The Deadly “AI Slow Roll” in SaaS: It May Cost You Everything

SaaStr

You know what I’m talking about: It’s the VP of Engineering who’s “still evaluating Windsurf and Cursor” but says it’s still a little bit early. The mediocre middle of go-to-market teams is about to be hollowed out, leaving only elite relationship builders and strategic consultants at the top.

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GTM 154: How AI is Reshaping Sales Tech | Lessons from Building Sales Cloud, Sales Navigator and now an AI-Native Startup

Sales Hacker

I mean, there were teams that were trying to build basically starter SMB CRMs and Salesforce has a ton of great engineers, ton of great user interface designers right, there’s no lack of talent for going to build that stuff from scratch. Like that’s an old tech stack. Yeah me also.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.