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Opinion

Lemkin: Do not hire people who complain about burnout

“Lazy people always say they're burnt out... But the people that complain about burnout, I think deserve a scarlet L burned into their forehead and don't hire them.”

Jason Lemkin Jul 17, 2026 ▶ 1:03:11 How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Lemkin: Four Upcoming Tech Mega-IPOs Will Eclipse All IPOs Since 2000

“SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, we'll add in Databricks, we'll have Arsan, one of the co-founders here in about half an hour after this. That's going to create more market value, more value, and more wealth than every other IPO since 2000.”

Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 13:41 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming

Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2027

Lemkin: A $100B Startup Acquisition Will Occur in the Next 12 Months

“I bet there'll be a hundred billion dollar startup acquired in the next 12 months.”

Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 14:26 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming

Prediction Held up

Lemkin: Anthropic Will Reach $50B in Revenue in Four Years

“Anthropics revenue is like nothing we've ever seen. Okay. It'll be at fifty billion in less than four years or four years plus or minus.”

Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 27:35 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming

Disclosure

Anderson: Filevine refuses to sell to customers who reject AI products

“We no longer sell to customers who won't buy the AI products.”

Ryan Anderson Jan 14, 2026 ▶ 25:30 10 Things To Do Right Now to Become AI Native with Filevine's CEO & Founder

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Queener: 75% of App Software Companies and 50% of Categories Will Disappear

“75% of all applications offer companies that you see today are going to disappear. And 50% of all applications, software categories are going to disappear.”

Brett Queener Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 17:34 Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures

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Assertion Supported

Bedecarre: Sephora leased major portion of Salesforce's 350 Mission space

“Salesforce themselves put up one of their half of their building at three 50 mission. Sephora took a huge chunk of that.”

Justin Bedecarre Feb 27, 2022 ▶ 6:51 The Office is Back!! But What Will It Be Like? Jason Lemkin & Justin Bedecarre of Raise.Work

Assertion Contradicted

Lemkin: All Top US Tech Companies Are Run by Asian/Indian Americans

“All the top US tech companies are run by Asian Americans or Indian Americans. All of them, right? Am I, are there any that aren't? AMD, Microsoft, Google, who am I missing?”

Jason Lemkin Mar 10, 2023 ▶ 11:25 SaaStr APAC AMA with Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO

Assertion Supported

Tejada: A non-profit uses PagerDuty to coordinate urgent corneal transplants

“We have a nonprofit that leverages PagerDuty to manage corneal transplants, and, you know, really, like, talk about a time-sensitive, mission-critical workflow. A cornea becomes available by a donor, and you have, you know, less than a few days that that corne…”

Jennifer Tejada Oct 16, 2021 ▶ 19:42 Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty's CEO, Jennifer Tejada | SaaStr Software Community

Assertion Contradicted

Global trade has grown 4% annually for over 800 years

“It has grown four percent annually for over 800 years, which is a nice slide to present to investors.”

Ryan Petersen May 27, 2020 ▶ 6:05 Flexport: How to Build a Truly Global Business From Day One with CEO Ryan Petersen

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48days Ibarra: Salesforce will integrate Qualified and Momentum by Dreamforce Amelia Ibarra · prediction date: 2026-10-31 109days Bialecki: Most businesses will deploy their own AI agent by year-end Andrew Bialecki · prediction date: 2026-12-31 109days Lemkin: VC Dollars in 2026 Will Surpass 2021 Peak Jason Lemkin · prediction date: 2026-12-31 109days Lemkin: Sales Commission Rates Will Halve by End of 2026 Jason Lemkin · prediction date: 2026-12-31

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Ordered by full support rate, then by supported count. Minimum three resolved. Partly supported claims count as resolved but not as fully supported, same as everywhere on the ledger.

Person	Eps	Statements	Supported	Full support rate
Eran Zinman	3	38	8	100%
Sanjit Biswas	1	21	6	100%
Sid Sijbrandij	1	15	6	100%
Aileen Lee	1	16	5	100%
Sahir Azam	1	8	5	100%
Marc Benioff	1	20	4	100%
Kieran Saker	1	7	4	100%
Jennifer Tejada	2	15	4	100%

From the Wisdom Wall all quotes →

“I think it is a self-inflicted wound for a lot of systems of record and SaaS centers as they jack up the prices because seats are going down and agents are going up and they jack up the price for…”

Jason Lemkin, Aug 28, 2026 · ▶ 12:27

“you're going to lose in the vendor war if you're not the one that not just is recommended in AO, but where the agent says, I will just do it with this, with this API.”

Jason Lemkin, Aug 28, 2026 · ▶ 51:25

“normally in software, you have this power law of like how good your users are, your products. Do you got a couple of really advanced users? Maybe you put them on a customer panel together. You bring…”