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Kelly Loftus

Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Kelly Loftus leads startup sales at Anthropic, where she scaled the startup sales team from fewer than 10 people to over 150. She is recognized in SaaS and AI for non-traditional sales methodologies, including using shadow targets instead of quotas to manage rapid adoption.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything Kelly Loftus said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Anthropic Uses Shadow Targets Instead of Traditional Sales Quotas

“No quotas at Anthropic today. That might change. Everything in this space, I feel like as soon as you say it, it's already outdated, but just shadow targets today.”

Kelly Loftus Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

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Anthropic Has Scaled to 1,300 Employees and 150 Go-To-Market Staff

“About 1300 at Anthropic, probably a 150 or so on the go-to-market team. So crazy scaling over the last year and a half.”

Kelly Loftus Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 11:21 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

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Anthropic uses Claude in Slack to answer employee questions and onboard staff

“Across both the technical and non-technical org, one of the favorite use cases is the Slack channel that we spun up, and what this Slack channel does is employees can go in, ask questions. Claude is on the back end and uses to go search over our internal knowl…”

Kelly Loftus Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 18:59 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

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Cursor Receives Pre-Release Access to Anthropic Models to Provide Coding Feedback

“Cursor has given us feedback on our models in the coding area and had access to our models before we released them and been able to actually give us feedback to meaningfully improve the user experience on both of our ends.”

Kelly Loftus Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 23:11 Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Kelly's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
SAASTRLEDGER	Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic	1	4	—	full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast →