AI tools
10 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 5 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 28, 2025 by Kyle Norton · across every show →
Everything said about AI tools, oldest first
May 28, 2025 bullish
Norton: AI Leverage Will Push Elite Enterprise Seller Comp from $350K to $500K
“If you have an elite mid-market and enterprise seller, they will have so much more leverage with all of these tools that the competitive dynamic will say, but it was only that seller was worth 350 K to me before, but now look at what they're going to produce. …”
May 28, 2025 negative
Norton: RevOps teams deploy AI tools without designing human follow-up workflows
“I think I see this mistake where you have RevOps people investigating tools and then applying them, but then there's no thought of, okay, how does this get to a rep? How do they follow up? How does the manager then look at what's going on?”
Jul 10, 2025
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Persson: Telling every employee to test AI creates duplicate effort and chaos
“What we haven't seen working well is really to go out and ask everyone on your team. To tell everyone to go out and test new things, it really creates a lot of unnecessary deprecation of efforts and also chaos, you know, as well.”
Nov 21, 2025 negative
Ibarra: Running multiple AI vendor bake-offs wastes time instead of saving money
“Like, I think in trying to save money, you're actually spending a lot more time than you normally would just deploying these and getting the outputs of AI by doing these 10 different betas. I was like, just pick one, and if you feel like the cost It's prohibit…”
Nov 21, 2025 neutral
Ibarra: SaaS leaders plan to freeze sales hiring to fund AI tools
“And I think a lot of folks I talked to, too, more common, you probably do too, Jason, just say they're not going to add headcount so that they can empower their teams, either Q four, 25 or Q one, 26 with these tools. Like they're just, again, reallocating budg…”
Dec 10, 2025 bullish
Mar 18, 2026 negative