Jason Lemkin

13 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 4, 2025 by Jason Lemkin · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jun 4, 2025 bullish
Insight
Lemkin: Weighting domain expert content makes AI twins vastly superior to ChatGPT
“So what's interesting is that content's already there, but by weight, by heavily weighting it toward my content for my type of knowledge, it's much, it's not a little bit better than ChatGPT. It's like much better.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 12:23 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: AI means software products are no longer durable
“I used to think all these products were durable. That they were durable. Now. I don't think any of them are durable.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 20:29 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 positive
Opinion
Lemkin: AI clone reviews VC pitch decks better than anything he's seen
“I didn't expect it's so good at reviewing VC pitch decks. It's so good at it better than anything I've seen.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 4:18 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr generates $5M in revenue per employee with five people
“We have five people and we do five million per person now.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 41:16 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Rebuilding AI model context takes only a month of daily use
“So yes, it is a moat, but if you decided Claude was much better for you and you, the point is, and you spent a month just including your day each day, you're probably there. You're not, not a hundred percent. It's enough.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 15:02 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025
Disclosure
Lemkin refuses warm intros and only backs inbound SaaStr superfans
“I only, I'm different than 99.9% investors. I only do Saster super fans that are high intent inbound. I don't take favorite meetings. I don't do warm intros.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 51:46 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Lowering hiring standards for small mistakes has a 100% failure rate
“I've hired folks for the email. Wasn't that great. I've hired folks where they put an E in Saster. I've hired folks that didn't do the research before they started a hundred percent failure rate, a hundred.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 55:00 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025
Disclosure
Lemkin ingested 12 years of SaaStr media into a personal AI clone
“I have about. 10,000 pieces of content I've written over the years, a lot of it, which is not out of date and I update it personally. So I've got 10,000 pieces of content and then we have several thousand. Interviews like you guys do... And our AI took everyth…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:22 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 negative
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Lemkin: Unemployed tech workers rejected jobs under $200k requiring direct individual work
“Enough that I had like a micro connection that had been out of work for six months and I gave them jobs. All of them in the end basically said, I want to make 200 K or more only to do meetings or manage teams. None of them were willing to do any work themselve…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:10:54 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Stanford freshmen plan for grad school primarily to defer entering work
“They all want to go to grad school now as freshmen. So they're all architecting their classes, their majors, so they can go to grad school so they can defer work.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:09:03 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: By next year, AI will generate synthetic multi-person video discussions
“Next year, it will be me and Yamini talking for 10 minutes about AI, and neither of us will have had the conversation.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 18:52 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Every Successful Investment Was Decided Before Meeting the Founder
“Every investment I've done that's good, I've wanted to invest before the meeting. Every good outcome I've had this.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 53:19 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lemkin has budget for 20 hires but cannot find top operational talent
“I've just struggled to find enough A-tier talent that wants to do this non-sexy stuff, okay? I would love to have 20 people on the team tomorrow. I have budget for it, or at least 15”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 44:01 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
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