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Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 35:24 Jason Lemkin My daughter's at Stanford.
AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 20:58 Jason Lemkin Certainly to go like to white comedy or in the Bay area, you meet a lot of 18 year old, 19 year old founders dropping out of Stanford.
Why OpenAI Doesn't Pay Sales Commission (And Why It Works) with OpenAI GTM Leader Maggie Hott
- ▶ 5:59 Maggie Hott Even Stanford was like, no one's ever gone back after a month, but we had a new chief customer officer at OpenAI, and I wanted him to know me.
- ▶ 18:55 Maggie Hott They're wonderful, but I wanted someone who had many years of career experience, who had an MBA, so I started scouting from Stanford and from Harvard. 2 times in the scene
What Happens When AI Kills Your SaaS Growth? Live Q&A with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 4:43 Jason Lemkin And if you're in solar, it's not going to matter, but to take someone that didn't go to MIT or Stanford and didn't, wasn't the top engineer at Stripe and didn't like work in the, it really can be magical.
Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud with Box 's Aaron Levie and IBM's VP AI
- ▶ 34:28 Jason Lemkin And my daughter is a freshman at Stanford and my son's here.
SaaS + AI: It’s Time to Move Much Faster with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 23:44 Jason Lemkin He's like, oh, I'm at Stanford.
From $1M to $3B ARR: Databricks CRO Ron Gabrisko on Scaling a Revenue Rocket Ship
The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 55:44 Jason Lemkin And then they're not all the CEOs of the top, whatever companies didn't, they weren't all first in their class from wherever Harvard and Stanford, were they?
How Enterprise Companies are Buying AI (or Not) with ContextualAI, Anthropic, and Glean
- ▶ 1:04 Douwe Kiela Uh, I'm also an adjunct professor at Stanford.
From Zero to Hero: How to Dominate Outbound SaaS Sales with Rippling and Sam Blond
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
- ▶ 0:56 Sharon Zhou Most recently I was computer science faculty at Stanford teaching generative AI, um, where I also got my PhD with Andrew Ng.
Who Will Win the Go-To-Market AI Race? with Stage 2 Capital Co-founder Mark Roberge
- ▶ 11:17 Mark Roberge The socioeconomic calls of like Yale and Stanford or Harvard, I don't know.
How to Navigate Strategic Change for Growth with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 19:04 Jason Lemkin I don't personally, I don't care about any of that, but I need some, everyone needs something to sink their teeth into, except an angel. 3 times in the scene
"The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With Dave Kellogg, ex-CEO Host Analytics": SaaStr Classic
- ▶ 21:41 Dave Kellogg And, and I first heard this question from a book called Strategy is Destiny by Robert Bergman at Stanford, and his whole argument was pretty simple.
Being a Rebel to Build a Movement: Non-Traditional Approaches to Scale | DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder
- ▶ 1:30 Joshua Browder And, um, it, it was a serious problem because I was a kind of broke college student at Stanford, um, and I couldn't afford to pay these 300 dollar tickets.
- ▶ 20:09 Joshua Browder So going back to my Stanford days, where I saw all these companies, uh, blow up in the consumer rights space, um, I noticed that, um,
Live from SaaStr Annual 2022: AMA with SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 28:16 Jason Lemkin I don't know where any founder I invested in went to college, but YC is Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Caltech all rolled into one. 3 times in the scene
How to Build a Great Intern Program from Scratch | @shopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar
- ▶ 39:11 unnamed speaker It reminds me that we actually went into a Stanford class where they did a group project.
"5 Dos and Dont's Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days" Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev
- ▶ 3:26 Andrew Filev I was not an ex-Stanford, ex-Googler kind of guy.
The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With - Lessons From Dave Kellogg
- ▶ 26:53 Dave Kellogg And, and I first heard this question from a book called Strategy is Destiny by Robert Bergman at Stanford, and his whole argument was pretty simple.
Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 - $1B in Under 2 Years
- ▶ 4:52 Anu Hariharan One, actually when, uh, Enrique and Pedro applied, they were class of 2020 Stanford.
The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- ▶ 38:46 Ryan Smith We teach a little case study about when we turned down the five hundred million at Qualtrics at Stanford, and, and everyone's like, oh, what, what was in that decision?
Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
- ▶ 1:42 Julio Avalos Well, she told me that she'd gone to Stanford, and I, being an East Coast person, and not just that, but also being a child of immigrants who no one had ever taken the SATs or gone to college before I did, I'd never heard of Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:50 Julio Avalos They're not coming necessarily just from Menlo Park and from Stanford.
Josh Stein of DFJ: What Makes a Great SaaS CEO
- ▶ 8:32 Josh Stein So, you know, um, when I was a student at Stanford, uh, Tom Siebel, who, I don't know if people remember Siebel,