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
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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. …”
Kyle Norton May 28, 2025 ▶ 26:23 AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
May 28, 2025 negative
Insight
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?”
Kyle Norton May 28, 2025 ▶ 14:24 AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
Jul 10, 2025
Disclosure
Giglio: Canva implements existing AI tools instead of building internal tooling
“We have a mindset that's like, there are probably great tools in the world. We should start with those tools and implement them in our own workflows, as opposed to try to build them ourselves right now.”
Rob Giglio Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 25:47 AI and the Bottom Line, How Canva Turns Freemium into Conversions with Canva's CCO
Jul 23, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: AI Tool Selection Matters Far Less Than Orchestration and QA
“Honestly, you could pick a slightly worse tool, but if you invest the time and effort, it's going to be dramatically better than what you have today. Right. The key is investing in the orchestration and the QA.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 43:41 What’s Working Now: AI’s Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM
Oct 16, 2025 negative
Insight
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.”
Denise Persson Oct 16, 2025 ▶ 5:36 Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO
Nov 21, 2025 negative
Insight
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…”
Amelia Ibarra Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 57:56 6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Nov 21, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Amelia Ibarra Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 1:13:10 6 Months Later, How Our AI SDRs Actually Work as AI Runs GTM with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Dec 10, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Ibarra: SaaStr pays $40k-$100k for AI tools that replace headcount
“Some of these tools are, like, you know, 40 to a hundred K a year-ish, but we replace headcount.”
Amelia Ibarra Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 44:49 How to Use AI to Hyper-Customize Go-To-Market at Scale with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
Mar 18, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Current AI SDR tools cannot autonomously auto-segment effectively
“None of the AI tools we use today, which are all great, but none of them can really use AI to auto segment in a way that can deliver these results.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 19:43 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR
Apr 22, 2026 negative
Insight
Lemkin: Nobody will pay for '60% solutions' in AI era
“If you build a 60% solution. No, one's going to pay for it.”
Jason Lemkin Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 12:22 Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
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