Amelia Ibarra
32 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 13 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 21, 2025 by Amelia Ibarra · said 17 times in 13 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Jason Lemkin (11), Sam Blond (2), Sarah Kennedy (1)
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- 5 Ways AI Has Already Changed B2B Sales Forever with Perplexity's CBO Dmitry Shevelenko
- The Secrets Inside Google Cloud’s Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing
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2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Amelia Ibarra, oldest first
Nov 21, 2025 bearish
Ibarra: Most companies adopting AI agents fail to see impact
“So I think we're in this right now sort of paradoxical world in November of 2025, where a lot of folks have adopted at least one sort of AI or agent, but maybe to Jason's point that he just made, a lot of them aren't seeing the impact because either they're ex…”
Nov 21, 2025 bearish
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
Nov 21, 2025 negative
Ibarra: AI-native GTM agencies are selling snake oil
“There's no agency that already knows how to do this. There's no, maybe there's a few like ester people at orgs that you can try and steal. But outside of that, I wouldn't, you know, buy the snake oil of, oh, we're an AI native agency and we know how to do GTM …”
Dec 10, 2025
Ibarra: Never unleash AI agents across an entire database at once
“You should never just unleash an AI agent on your entire, entire database. Like, Do not do that. It will not be customized. It's not going to work like this. Like, you do need to train either sub-agents, depending on what platform you use, or do, like, sub-cam…”
Dec 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025 neutral
Mar 4, 2026 bearish
Ibarra: Current AI agents cannot run end-to-end email marketing at scale
“These agents can't do that. I have not seen an agent successfully do email marketing at scale. The moment I find one, I'm using it that actually works. I've not found one that actually works. Like, not just writing all of these, just write email copy. They don…”
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Ibarra: AI agents act as relentless truth-tellers with complete operational visibility
“What does the agent care? The agent's just gonna tell me the truth. The agent has all the data more than I probably look at it, right? Like I look at it a lot. But it's got all, like, it knows where I'm behind, it knows my calendar, it knows all these things”
Mar 4, 2026 neutral
Ibarra: Teams can only realistically add 1 to 1.5 agents monthly
“But I'd say in that math, you can really only add one slash one and a half agents per month max. Like, Otherwise, you're running in place because you can't really keep up with your current agents to add the new agent, so it doesn't actually, maybe it doesn't m…”
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Ibarra: No AI agent currently exists that can manage other agents
“There is no, like, again, crazy good agent that can manage all the other agents on its own today as of February. There's, that doesn't exist, right? Like, I wish there were, I don't know if, I think there will be, but there's not one today.”
Mar 4, 2026 bearish
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Ibarra: Continuous unvarnished feedback from AI agents can become demoralizing
“Because you can't keep up with them, sometimes I feel like it does cross a little bit of a line where I'm like, okay, dude, like, today just, like, sugarcoat it to me like you would a person. Today, I don't need the hard, like, I can't deal with hard truths ev…”
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Mar 4, 2026 negative
Mar 4, 2026 bullish
SaaStr's Monaco AI agent booked six meetings from 64 outreaches
“We got it up and running in basically a week and a half, and you can see here, like, in its first week on, you know, it reached out to 64 people, it booked six meetings instantly, Some of those are like tier one accounts for us, which is pretty dang good.”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Mar 18, 2026
Ibarra: Teams must read all AI SDR outputs for 30 days
“Read everything. I would say in the first 30 days and then read almost everything. Every day after that. So if you're rolling out your first AISDR agent, you are going to want to read everything. And maybe you're going to want to read everything before you hit…”
Mar 18, 2026
Ibarra: Warming up domains and IPs for AI SDRs takes two to three weeks
“Some specifically to with an outbound agent, they can take a little bit longer, especially if it's warming up anything like specific IPs or domains or dedicated evil addresses. Sometimes that process just takes two to three weeks in and of itself.”
Mar 18, 2026 neutral
Mar 18, 2026 negative
Mar 18, 2026 neutral
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Ibarra: 99% of Inbound Prospects Are Satisfied Interacting with AI SDRs
“But for the most part, 99% of people are happy to talk to Amelia because we're busy. Like, I can't come answer your questions about tickets or Where are the hotel room block is? Or when did, when does the ticket code expire or when do prices go up and what's t…”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Ibarra: SaaStr Annual agency hours dropped over 90% via AI automation
“I was looking at the amount of hours our actual, our events production agency had done for January and February for this year for SAS Reannual that's coming up in May versus the amount that our agency had done last year in January and February for the SAS Rean…”
Mar 18, 2026 positive
Mar 18, 2026 negative
May 6, 2026 neutral
Jun 16, 2026 bearish
Ibarra: SaaStr Will Never Hire a Dedicated RevOps Person Due to AI
“I mean, not that we've ever had like a true ref ops person. I've just kind of done it as a backfill, but now that we have 10 K and QB, why would we need, I was like, I would never hire an actual. Rev ops person to fight me on the data. There's just no need.”
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Aug 28, 2026 positive
Ibarra: AI renewal workflows take half a day to build
“This is one of those things where in the age of AI, ah, this took me an extra, let's say, half a day with 10 K to build. Like, you gotta, sure, you might have to set up these sources the first time, but then you can output something like this for literally eve…”