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36 statements across 28 episodes · 12 bullish · 12 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement May 13, 2017 by Byron Deeter · said 559 times in 194 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2026 65 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- What Agents That Actually Work Look Like Right Now with Replit's CEO and Founder
- $0 to $700M ARR in 16 Months. Inside Higgsfield's AI Growth with Alex Mashrabov, co-founder and CEO
- Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
- $0 to $100M ARR Fast. How Gamma Scaled Quickly without a Sales Team
- How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step
- How Anthropic's Head of Industries Built an AI-Native Sales Org from Scratch
- Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 122 mentions in 26 episodes 5 per episode
- The Secrets Inside Google Cloud’s Growth with Sarah Kennedy, Vice President Google Cloud Marketing
- The Playbook for Going Upmarket with Stripe's CBO and Checkr's COO
- The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott
- AI and the Death of the 2021 Sales Playbook with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Is The Classic GTM Playbook Really Dead? with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- HubSpot Co-Founder Brian Halligan on How to Hire Great VPs and How M&A Really Works
- From PLG to Enterprise to SMB: Insights from Calendly's CEO Tope Awotona
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 66 mentions in 23 episodes 3 per episode
- 6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
- Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGrowth Partners
- Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross
- State of the Cloud: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners
- Todd McKinnon CEO of Okta: Top 10 Learnings Building a High Performance Organization (Updated)
- How Enterprise Companies are Buying AI (or Not) with ContextualAI, Anthropic, and Glean
- How to Hire a Great VP of Sales Today with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- 15 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 69 mentions in 31 episodes 2 per episode
- Secrets to Scaling and Growth in an Unpredictable Market with monday.com's Co-founder and Co-CEO
- VC AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Black Mangroves MD Arnaud Bonzom at SaaStr APAC 2023
- CRO Confidential: Guild Education SVP, Go To Market Strategy, Operations & Enablement Cherishma Shah
- The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- Building a Global SaaS Empire | Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham on His Biggest Bets
- Scaling to $5B with Cockroach Labs' CEO Spencer Kimball's Formula for Sustained Growth + Resilience
- How to Close More SaaS Deals with Less Budget with Datadog's CMO Alex Rosemblat
- From 2 Weeks of Runway to $1B Acquisition: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 40 mentions in 17 episodes 2 per episode
- 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community
- 16 Ways to Level Up in 2022 with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin | SaaStr Software Community
- Building Marketing Channels Slowly to Achieve Massive Scale with Datadog CMO Alex Rosemblat
- Scaling for the Enterprise: Top 5 Lessons on the Upmarket Journey with @AirtableApp CEO Howie Liu
- SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank
- The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- The Office is Back!! But What Will It Be Like? Jason Lemkin & Justin Bedecarre of Raise.Work
- What It Takes to Forge Your Own Category with Braze Co-Founder and CEO Bill Magnuson
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 83 mentions in 26 episodes 3 per episode
- $100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- The Future of AI, Open Source, and Enterprise SaaS with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi
- How To Collaborate, Manage & Work With Developers With Jeff Lawson, CEO Twilio
- Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder at HubSpot: The Secrets to $1B ARR ... And Beyond!
- Beyond Product-led Growth: 7 Lessons Learned in Product-Led Scaling with Dropbox GM Rachel Wolan
- The Twists and Turns Along the Way to Building a Unicorn with Salesloft's CEO Kyle Porter
- The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO
- The Highs and Lows of Fundraising from Founders That Have Raised $1B w/ Calendly, Coda, LaunchDarkly
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 18 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- The Playbook to Scaling High-Performance Teams with Gusto COO Lexi Reese | SaaStr Software Community
- On Launching a Second Product with Dharmesh Shah, CTO / Co-Founder HubSpot
- Lessons in Scaling a Low Code Platform with Airtable's CEO Howie Liu
- How to Hire a Great First VP of Sales
- Lessons from Logikcull: $0 to $10M in 19 Months: The How, When & Why + 10 Mistakes Along the Way
- What’s Changed Since March 15 The Cloud at Hyperspeed. The World in Flux.
- The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
- Webinar: What It Was Like in '08-'09. And We Can Learn for '20.
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 36 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- How to build a $18B+ success story far far away from Silicon Valley with Adyen
- Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
- 7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft, and Calendly
- The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- "5 Dos and Dont's Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days" Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev
- 5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies From Moving Upmarket Dropbox's CCO Yamini Rangan (now CEO HubSpot)
- From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen, Founder of WP Engine
- Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 34 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- Bootstrapping vs Fundraising
- Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017
- SaaStrPRO AMA with Jason Lemkin
- Insider's Guide To Building Great Product w/Merci Grace, Slack's First Head of Product
- How to Build Happier Employees - Founder & CTO and Chief People Officer at HubSpot
- The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
- Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
- SaaStr Live with Jason Lemkin: Europa Edition!
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 26 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- AI: The New Platform for SaaS
- How to Break Out and Really Scale
- Jay Simons, President @ Atlassian - The Inside Story Through IPO
- Bessemer Venture Partners: The State of the Cloud, 2017-2018 Edition
- Zendesk From Day 0 to Today: The Lessons Learned
- Twilio: The Inside Story with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co-Founder
- Leo Widrich of Buffer: Top 10 Learnings Going to 10 Million
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google, oldest first
May 13, 2017 neutral
Jun 2, 2017 neutral
Tunguz: Google, Microsoft, and Amazon will dominate foundational AI APIs
“Google, Microsoft, Amazon, they will be releasing the APIs that lots of companies will be building on, competing with them. You may want to compete with them, but we will likely not invest in that because it's a very challenging go to market strategy.”
Jun 2, 2017 positive
Jun 2, 2017 bullish
Jan 1, 2018 bullish
Gross: Complex big data and ML stacks will deploy in 10 minutes
“By the end of the year, your developers are going to be able to stand up a stack that does this in 10 minutes. Because you're just going to consume all these things as a service. And we're going to see a rapid and dramatic commoditization in the data nature of…”
Aug 28, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 negative
Grace: Big-tech PMs often fail at early-stage startups
“I have seen just hard fails from people who kind of like have that Silicon Valley passport that you're looking for. Oh, three years at Google, and then four years at Facebook. Fantastic. Not for your 20% startup. That person, especially people from Facebook th…”
Oct 23, 2018 negative
Oct 23, 2018 negative
Beri: Big data is often useless to enterprises lacking tech talent
“So having this amount of data while maybe useful for Facebook and Google and maybe not useful for us In that context is definitely not useful in many cases for an enterprise because they don't have, if you're an enterprise, and I'm talking about enterprise, wh…”
Jun 19, 2019
Jun 25, 2019 positive
Eventbrite achieved Google-level hiring advantages by empowering its regional hubs
“The reward for giving them that trust and autonomy has been, we are the place to work for engineers in both Mendoza and Nashville full stop. We are the best place to work and it's known by everybody that advantage that Google used to have over us. In San Franc…”
Feb 3, 2020 positive
Reese: Google found top teams excel via trust, not individual talent
“They cross-referenced a bunch to come up with the teams that performed the highest were not the smartest people in the room. They were not the best Positional players in their particular spot on the field. They were a team that had engendered this sense of tru…”
Dec 10, 2020 negative
Liu: Microsoft Lists is a direct attempt to replicate Airtable
“Microsoft has a product called list that is. In many ways, like a direct, you know, kind of attempt to replicate air table. We think we have a lot of product advantages over that product, but you know, it's a much more direct play against air table. Google has…”
Jan 15, 2021 bullish
Apr 29, 2021 negative
Bansal: Only about ten companies globally excel at software delivery and CI/CD
“There are only, like, maybe 10 companies in the world who are very good in software delivery, where, like, you know, CI, CD, software delivery, their shipping code very fast, and these are, like, your Googles, and Facebooks, and Amazons, and Netflix, and they …”
Dec 14, 2021 neutral
Dec 14, 2021 negative
Feb 27, 2022 neutral
Feb 27, 2022
Sep 13, 2022
Building 79 features for PayPal unlocked Google and Amazon sales
“Luckily, Alfonso decided to take the UX researcher persona, which was the PayPal option, and, you know, built, I believe, 79 of those features, and that enabled the team to go and sell the same proposition to people like Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay.”
Nov 17, 2022 negative
Snow: Standard SEM spend on Google or LinkedIn won't yield outsized leverage
“You just have to find those opportunities, though, because it doesn't exist in just plugging in money in Google or LinkedIn SEM. Like it doesn't work like that if you're trying to be, if you're trying to find outsized leverage.”
Mar 16, 2023 positive
G2 Plans Shift Toward ChatGPT-Style Personalized Software Recommendations
“Ultimately for us, we want to make it a more Google-like experience, and shame on me saying what everyone's been talking about the last couple of months, chat GPT type experience, where you're really looking at
What is best for me?”
May 9, 2023 negative
Zima: Looker product development slowed after Google acquisition
“As we got acquired by Google it sort of was evident that the product was not building in the same way and that the team was excited to go do a lot of the really ambitious things that you know, we didn't have the opportunity to do anymore.”
May 18, 2023 positive
Bonzom: Repeat Singapore founders intentionally take smaller rounds at lower valuations
“I'm seeing now, like, people that are building their second or third company here, even if one of them got an exit with Google here in, in Singapore they're only raising one, 1.5 million at an eight to ten million valuation, where they can, even if today still…”
Oct 10, 2023 neutral
Zinman: GTM messaging must target specific search intent over abstract platforms
“Nobody went on Google and searched for a flexible software to manage my business, right? Like, nobody does that. People search for project management, they search for CRM, so we had to change from, like, there's the company vision on one hand, but there's the …”
Mar 15, 2024 positive
Gross: Heroku's 10-Person Team Built the Equivalent of Google's Infrastructure
“And they did some of the work that they did in the size of that team. They did the equivalent of Kubernetes and what Google was doing with buildings full of people with 10 people in a room. Still, I don't appreciate, I don't know that Technical brilliance of t…”
Apr 13, 2024
Apr 13, 2024
Early-stage startups over-invest in refactoring before securing market traction
“I think a lot of early companies do too much refactoring and too much perfecting of the architecture. Being successful in the marketplace and getting momentum with customers can make up for a lot of sense. And give you a lot of time and effort and flexibility …”
Jan 3, 2025 neutral
Jan 3, 2025 negative
Halligan: HubSpot Avoids Hiring Executives From Google and Microsoft
“The other hack that helped us is we just don't hire anyone from Google or Microsoft or a giant company that it's like a different level of abstraction from where we're at. It was used to having, you know, a lot of staff and a lot of help around that maybe we'r…”
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Google's G Suite product team resisted adding page numbers for years
“I remember, I don't know if you remember this, it took like an act of Congress to get Product to build page numbers into the G Suite portfolio. For years, no, we don't need page numbers. And we just think people don't use those anymore.”
Mar 26, 2025 negative
Mar 26, 2025 positive
Sep 12, 2025 negative
Lemkin: Implementing custom OAuth in vibe coding creates major security leaks
“All of these apps have their own OAuth built in. That is secure. That has been hardened. And everyone goes in and I know Replit the best because that's where I've spent time, but they all have the same ultimate. They're all more similar than they're different.…”
Oct 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2026 positive
Traditional Search Remains Essential For Mainstream Software Products
“Well, yes, but still there is a world out there where people are still using search and Google, and you can't just forget that we're here a little bit more in the bubble compared to the rest of the world. So if you're building for that rest of the world, searc…”