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CRO Confidential: 0 to $600M in Under 4 Years. The ElevenLabs GTM Playbook with Carles Reina Sep 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:10 Sam Blond There are others, Jason and Amelia regularly talk about the sort of like onboarding process and level of involvement that somebody might have to go through in the like pain.

$0 to $100M ARR Fast. How Gamma Scaled Quickly without a Sales Team Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:12 unnamed speaker I was just saying to you backstage how I used Gamma last night to create the Pokemon cards I made for our opener this morning, and there's, not only are they so cute, I did it instantly, and when I gave it feedback, I, I didn't even say in…

The Agents #011 - From 0 to 20 Agents and Back Again, Are Agents Finally Consolidating? Jul 24, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 5:28 unnamed speaker So for the framing, to add to what Jason said, we started as 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:14 unnamed speaker 20 plus agents over the last year now, right, starting last July, some are newer than others, but this is a year of both learnings on the agents getting better and the humans, me and Jason behind the scenes, also getting better and…
  • ▶ 17:55 unnamed speaker Me and Jason were basically the orchestrators. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:07 unnamed speaker I was just showing Jason yesterday, like now he can see every email we sent and attribute like any revenue that's generated.
  • ▶ 43:07 unnamed speaker Um, um, so, so just to answer a question in the chat is, um, Claude became a better manager of all of our agents, so, um, because now it has this MCP, Claude can talk to Tenke, he can talk to, um, Annie, he can talk to QB, and so it's…

How to Build Your Own AI VP of Marketing Step-by-Step Jun 26, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:45 Amelia LeRutte He started as a dashboard, so if all you leave today is even a dashboard, just know we've been building with Tenk literally every day between myself and Jason for the last five months, and so it might take you some time after this session,…
  • ▶ 6:58 Amelia LeRutte So every day that Jason and I are like programming our agents, you know, we think of something new we want to do. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:46 Amelia LeRutte Um, is that we, we did what Jason and I call stair-stepping.

How AI Is Rewiring Sales: Quota, Retention & Follow-Up with Agentforce, Momentum, Mangomint + SaaStr Apr 1, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:29 unnamed speaker Use my code Jason 100 for exclusive savings. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:52 unnamed speaker I know Jason is still speaking, I think.

Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures Oct 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:07 Brett Queener Saster when it first started, you know, when Jason was doing this thing, it was the first vestiges of on-premise companies in existing category.
  • ▶ 19:45 Brett Queener I think Jason said it's one of the best teams he's ever said.

Building AI-First Companies: Insights from Zapier’s CEO Wade Foster Sep 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:23 Amelia LeRutte I think you know that Jason, our founder, has been vibe coding a lot lately. 2 times in the scene

5 Ways AI Has Already Changed B2B Sales Forever with Perplexity's CBO Dmitry Shevelenko Jun 11, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 1:30 Sam Blond Another incredible Sastr annual big shout out to Jason Lemkin and Amelia and the whole Sastr team every year, bigger and better than the last somehow thrilled to be here.
  • ▶ 16:02 Sam Blond One of the things that Jason brings up a lot is how affect Jason from Saster brings up a lot is how effective their AI is. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:49 Sam Blond And maybe I have some questions, but these are the types of questions that the Jason Saster model that I described earlier, they're going to have better answers than the, you know, low paid sales rep that's selling this transactional…

From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship Feb 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:25 Sam Blond I think maybe the one nuance, and I've heard this, um, now both from you, but also somewhat regularly, even from Jason Lemkin, who, um, is the head of Sastr.

Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGrowth Partners Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:03 Guillaume Cabane Jason wanted us to go from something more theoretical to something more practical, so we pulled up a lot of examples from, um, the advisory clients that I have to show you how it's really done, leveraging AI tools, um, in today's marketing…

Deep Dive: Easy Sales Concepts So Many Get Wrong with Sam Blond Jun 21, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:22 Sam Blond EchoSign is Jason Lemkin's company that he built and we eventually sold to Adobe and that sort of launched my career in tech sales where 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:33 Sam Blond Jason Lemkin, Parker, who on this slide, Parker was my CEO at Senefits, and several others.

6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners Mar 1, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 24:38 TJ Nahigian We thought we'd bring this up because Jason, the founder of Saster, is actually an investor in this company, and we've gotten close to Ramon and the team over time.
  • ▶ 32:07 TJ Nahigian Thanks, Hoff.

Bringing Product-Led and Sales-Led Growth Together For Go-To-Market Success with Zapier's CRO Feb 9, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:01 Sam Blond But, um, I talk a lot and Jason actually from Sastra as well talks a lot about when you're hiring your first sales person or your first SDR, you should always hire two. 2 times in the scene

What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk Jan 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:51 Sam Blond Jason, who of course runs Sastra, he talks about this a lot in many of his posts, that the value out of getting on a plane, going and visiting your biggest customer, some of your customers, just learning from them, how they're experiencing…

The 7 Biggest Mistakes CMOs Make (And How to Avoid Them) with the CMOs of Databricks, Zoom, and Okta Jan 10, 2024 · 1 mention

CRO Confidential: The Hangover's Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong's SVP Nov 23, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:04 Sam Blond Uh, before we jump in, huge shout out and thank you to the team at SASTR, uh, Jason and Amelia and Caitlin and everyone else.

Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: My Top 10 Failures as a SaaS CEO & What I've Learned Nov 8, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:46 Nick Mehta Was maybe six or nine months ago, Jason Lemkin, who I've been very fortunate to know since the beginning of Gainsight, he emailed me and he said, Nick, I'd love to have you write a blog post about the top 10 mistakes you've made. 3 times in the scene

From $5M to $100M: How to Scale a Multi-Product Startup with Lattice CEO Jack Altman Sep 29, 2023 · 1 mention

10 Things Top CROs Wish They Knew Early in Our Careers with CRO Justworks Aug 15, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 40:30 unnamed speaker So I've got that stuff figured out, but Jason's always VP of sales, VP of marketing. 2 times in the scene

How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund Jul 19, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:07 Sam Blond Jason referring me companies to angel invest in there's, there's one that's performing quite well right now. 3 times in the scene

How To Boost Your Net Retention Revenue (NRR) to Over 140% with Insider's CEO and CMO Jul 7, 2023 · 3 mentions

From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze Co-Founder & CEO Jun 30, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:16 Bill Magnuson We heard from Jason earlier a lot of the pressures that, you know, a lot that this entire community is under from a venture perspective, from an overall market perspective.
  • ▶ 20:00 Bill Magnuson And so, you know, we, uh, Jason talked earlier about the triple triple double double double, um, and actually mentioned, uh, Neeraj Agarwal as, as a person who, uh, is, you know, kind of famous for coining that.
  • ▶ 24:14 Bill Magnuson And this is particularly important in the current venture environment, as Jason just detailed a lot of.

Rippling CEO Parker Conrad's Theory of the Compound Startup: Disrupting How We Think About Software Jun 27, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:05 Parker Conrad Sam and I actually, uh, were on stage for the very first SASTER with Jason, I think like 10 years ago now.

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Principles that Drove Wiz’s $0 to The First $100m ARR | Wiz CRO Colin Jones Jun 1, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:39 Sam Blond Jason, uh, Lemkin introduced me to Parker at Zenefits when I was ready for my first VP of sales opportunity and YC

CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers | CoSell.io Co-Founder May 16, 2023 · 4 mentions

Customer Marketing Strategies Guaranteed to Grow Your Business with Bitly CMO Tara Robertson Apr 25, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:31 Tara Robertson And there was an article recently that Jason Lemkin put out that said, how much do you talk about customer marketing?

Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV Apr 13, 2023 · 1 mention

How The Biggest Product-Led Enterprise Company In The World Did It | Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch Mar 7, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 32:43 Sam Blond Uh, I remember recently, I think Jason had a tweet about earlier stage companies that had sort of hit, um, uh, an inflection point or, or, um, something in their growth where they, they reached a bit of a plateau and that a couple of his… 3 times in the scene

Scaling a SaaS Sales Team While Building Culture with Figma's VP of Sales, Scott Pugh Mar 3, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:20 Scott Pugh Many of you would have heard about the, the imminent acquisition for, from Adobe, and obviously Jason mentioned it earlier as well.

How To Adapt Your Sales Strategy To The Current Sales Environment | Modern Health SVP of Sales Feb 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:51 Sam Blond Well, my personal perspective on this, which is relatively aligned with Jason Lemkin's is we've sort of returned to normal.

CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman Jan 27, 2023 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:54 Sam Blond So Jason Lemkin, of course, founder and CEO of Sastr, had a tweet last week that resonated with me.
  • ▶ 8:05 Sam Blond Um, when I joined, uh, Zenefits, Parker, um, was introduced to me by Jason Lemkin. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:57 Sam Blond Jason Limkin, certainly in that category.
  • ▶ 34:31 Sam Blond The thing that's going through my mind and, and Jason has a number of tweets and posts and, and, um, talks about this a lot.

Big Numbers from Small Customers: How DigitalOcean Accelerated at Scale | DigitalOcean SVP, Revenue Dec 29, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Cliff Bockard Thank you so much, and, you know, thank you to Jason and the team, uh, for having me broadcast here from sunny Colorado.
  • ▶ 5:30 Cliff Bockard So if you kind of like, you know, um, uh, Jason and Daniel for this, but it's like, if you, if you enter Jason's favorite mantra, which is product market fit, um, we fit squarely in the middle, right? 2 times in the scene

SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Rippling VP Sales Matt Plank Dec 15, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:13 Sam Blond So unconventional in that, uh, uh, myself, Jason from Saster and many others, just like generic advice around this is when you're ready to hire salespeople, hire two individual contributors.

How to Manage 100+ SDRs Across 4 Continents | Snowflake VP, Global Sales Development Lars Nilsson Dec 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:55 Lars Nilsson Um, for the early stage founders in the room, I just want to let you know about a year ago I wrote an article for Jason and Saster that helps the early stage founder understand what are the five first revenue-facing roles I believe they…

Growth vs. Efficiency: How to Weatherproof Your SaaS Startup for Tougher Times | Christoph Janz Oct 13, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 31:26 Christoph Janz I think that's a term that I've learned from Jason, Jason Lemkin, um, which I like a lot, and what it means is that you set a, a certain dollar amount that you and your team can burn in, for each given month, and you,

Optimizing GTM for PLG with Stage 2 Capital Co-Founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge Sep 27, 2022 · 1 mention

Successful Scaling Across Markets, From a Founder Turned VC | OMERS Ventures MP Harry Briggs Sep 15, 2022 · 1 mention

Scaling From $10M-$100M ARR: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten Aug 30, 2022 · 2 mentions

Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo Aug 23, 2022 · 1 mention

SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO/CRO Dynamic Drives Growth | Marketo’s Former EVP Sales Bill Binch Aug 16, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:49 Bill Binch He was up here talking about that today, or I'm sorry, Jason said this at the kickoff, that today, talent is global, and you need to be able to go grab that talent based on where it is.

7 Secrets to a Successful SMB GTM Strategy with PayFit and Accel | SaaStr Software Community Jul 26, 2022 · 1 mention

5 Scale-Up Mistakes for Startups with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community Jul 20, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:45 Dave Kellogg Jason Lemkin,
  • ▶ 30:45 Dave Kellogg In terms of second product, I talked about Jason Lemkin's work before, but he's done a series of tweets and blogs, and from his research to me, for most companies, it's probably a hundred million plus in ARR, and maybe multiple, for the…

Balancing Growth and Efficiency in Tougher Times | Point Nine Managing Partner Christoph Janz Jun 29, 2022 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:11 Christoph Janz Thank you so much, Jason, for putting this together.
  • ▶ 26:48 Christoph Janz That's something that Jason wrote about in a, in a blog post that really resonated with me.
  • ▶ 31:09 Christoph Janz The next one, um, again, it's a topic which, uh, Jason, uh, is, is the, the expert on and can tell you more about, uh, move on from any VP that isn't amazing.

How to Set and Hit Revenue Targets with Sam Blond, CRO at Brex | SaaStr Software Community Mar 28, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:06 Sam Blond As Jason said, uh, I'm CRO of Rex.
  • ▶ 2:52 Sam Blond So if you follow Jason and Zaster, um, you've probably heard a number of different times when you're ready to hire your first sales rep, hire two.

Marketing Secrets to Hypergrowth from Building Elastic, Zuora, and Segment Mar 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:41 Jeff (Yosh) Uh, and then over my span of years at Salesforce, uh, I moved from services into, uh, a team called the AppExchange team, and this launched the ecosystem, and this is where I met Jason Lemkin and, uh, a lot of founders and, and…

Scaling Your Startup 10x From $20M to $200M with Sapphire, Lightspeed, TripActions, and 6Sense Jan 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:08 Kathy Gao First of all, huge thank you to Jason Lemkin and the entire Saster crew for bringing us all together in person.

Adding Outbound Sales & Marketing to a Product-Led Growth Engine Freshworks, Twilio, 1Password, Coda Dec 21, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:07 Bibiana Feiga I just want to thank Jason Lemkin sincerely and all of the organizers at Saster.

Shifting to the Next Gear: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Intercom CEO Karen Peacock Dec 13, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:34 Karen Peacock Now, some specific benchmarks that you can aim for or aim to beat, just so you have them in mind, and I'll credit Jason Lemkin here, and for those who are here, anyone who's not following Jason, I would encourage you to follow him on… 2 times in the scene

The Most Common SaaS Sales Potholes and How to Avoid Them with Mark Roberge, HubSpot's ex-CRO Nov 19, 2021 · 1 mention

Beyond Product-led Growth: 7 Lessons Learned in Product-Led Scaling with Dropbox GM Rachel Wolan Oct 27, 2021 · 1 mention

State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community Oct 14, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:24 Byron Deeter Um, we ended up doing that virtually, uh, but a huge shout out to the Sastr community for pulling this together, and we were just with, uh, with Jason and the team in the speakers lounge before this,

Nick Mehta, CEO Gainsight: 10 Things That Are Changing Now in Customer Success | SaaStr 2021 Oct 5, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Nick Mehta So grateful to Jason Lemkin and Saster for bringing us all together again.
  • ▶ 3:10 Nick Mehta So this is actually a photo from 2015, the first Sastr conference, but this concept of an event like this was just a twinkle in Jason Lemkin's eye in 2013, right?

How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Charts with SafeGraph Apr 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:33 Auren Hoffman Um, this one came from one of my discussions with Jason Lemkin, who's the founder of Saster.

How to Build a Great Intern Program from Scratch | @shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar Feb 12, 2021 · 1 mention

How to Market at Mass Scale | Harry Stebbings, The Twenty Minute VC & Whereby CMO Ryan Bonnici Feb 8, 2021 · 1 mention

Lessons from Logikcull: $0 to $10M in 19 Months: The How, When & Why + 10 Mistakes Along the Way May 20, 2020 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:16 Andy Wilson Uh, so a couple months ago, Jason emailed me and asked me, uh, if I could speak at Saster 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 37:54 Andy Wilson So SaaS is a business model, and unless you're Jason Lemkin, it is not your mission.

Founder Confidential: The Top Things No One Really Tells You About Scaling Apr 6, 2020 · 3 mentions

"Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS" Egnyte Co-Founder Rajesh Ram Aug 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:44 Rajesh Ram Thank you to Jason and the Sastra community for welcoming Ignite, uh, and, uh, myself, and, uh, thank you to the wonderful city of Paris for hosting us.
  • ▶ 12:23 Rajesh Ram In fact, in the first panel that Jason moderated, there was a lot of talk about feature parity and function parity, but as you mature as a SaaS company, I think it's more important to focus on selling

How to Build a CSM Team that Generates 130% Net Retention with Talkdesk Jul 23, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 14:43 unnamed speaker Uh, I loved this post from Jason back in November. 2 times in the scene

Lessons from Gorgias: How to Close your First 1000 Customers Based Solely on Data May 15, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:45 Romain Lapeyre And so we were thinking about that, talking with other people, reading the different literature, like, uh, so, like, two books that were great to us were Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross, and another one, uh, which is From Impossible to…

How we did it: Gender Equality, Equal Pay, and Racial Equality with Salesforce Apr 29, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:48 Leila Seka Uh, Molly did a TED talk, uh, earlier last year, and I was tweeting about that, and Jason sent us a note and asked us to come here and chat with y'all.

Fireside Chat with CEO and Founder of Front, Mathilde Collin Sep 11, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 21:09 Harry Stebbings Well, Jason Lankin says that when you get to eight to ten million ARR, that's when it really starts to get fun.

Sales Rep 2.0: How to Make Sales Agile with Heresy Aug 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:16 Dimitri Stanimiroff Um, I've learned a lot, um, from Jason's blog posts, uh, from previous speakers at, uh, previous events.

Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017 Jan 1, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:26 Adam Gross So, um, I was talking to Jason a couple months ago, and we were talking about the show, and we're talking about, you know, how much great sales and marketing content there is for SaaS leaders and what a amazing resource that is, and, ah, I…

The Secrets of Net Negative Churn: Customer Advocacy Aug 28, 2017 · 2 mentions

Leo Widrich of Buffer: Top 10 Learnings Going to 10 Million Jul 7, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24 Leo Widrich I was talking with Jason about it, and I was always like, oh, I really want to attend, and the fact that I can come and actually give a talk is a really, a real honor, so I'm really pleased to be here. 2 times in the scene

AI: The New Platform for SaaS Jun 2, 2017 · 1 mention

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