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AI Apps The SaaStr Team Loves — and Uses Every Day

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Sessions, interviews, deep dives — you name it. Traditional editing software? People are having meaningful exchanges about complex B2B topics, reviewing 100s of VC pitches and board decks, getting personalized sales advice, and finding exactly what they need from our decade of GTM learnings and speakers. And honestly?

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The Early Days: 5 Things Vanta Got Right, And 5 It Got Wrong, Getting to First $10m ARR

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When validating Vanta’s initial concept, Christina didn’t just conduct interviews or send surveys. A color-coded spreadsheet. Not software. ” This approach gave them insights no amount of customer development interviews could provide. Their “V0” product? Not a fancy prototype. ” 5. .

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

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AI Agent Revolution Nearly 90% of code at high-growth SaaS companies is now AI-generated, up from 10-15% just 12 months ago. Traditional legal software companies like Thomson Reuters have spent years trying to add comparable AI capabilities to LexisNexis.

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How to Avoid a Bad VC Investor with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

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Ask the founders this question when you interview them: How supportive has X person been as an investor? VCs used to always have meals with founders when they gave them a term sheet to get to know each other, and while it’s less common less days, you absolutely should as it’s a great way to do reverse diligence.

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How Windsurf / Codeium Built a Billion-Dollar AI Company and a Winning Sales Machine

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Codeium has built a generative AI coding assistant Windsurf that integrates across any IDE and supports over 70 programming languages. Their product is generating an impressive 45% of developers’ code on average. Technical customers report that tasks that previously took weeks are now completed in hours.

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

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I’d review 100+ of the questions folks asked the day before. For the better part of the last decade, it’s been broadly assumed that product-led growth (PLG) is superior to implementation-heavy enterprise software. That’s not just blog posts. Not once a week. Not “when I had time.” ” Every.

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Dear SaaStr: How Should I Approach Hiring My First Executives?

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Force Yourself to Interview 30 Candidates for VP Roles Yes, 30. Use Screening Filters Create simple tests to weed out unqualified candidates before the first interview. For example, ask engineers to complete a quick coding challenge or have marketing candidates critique your product. Thats time you cant afford to lose.