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Assertion Contradicted
Lemkin: Majority of surveyed sales professionals secretly work multiple jobs
“I did a survey on LinkedIn a couple of months ago and asked like over 2000 sales professionals. The majority said they're working more than one job. The majority.”
Jason Lemkin Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 18:35 Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know to Scale to $100m with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin
Assertion Partly supported
Sam Blond: Rippling pays promoters $25 to post onboarding on LinkedIn
“Rippling does this really creative strategy where when you are onboarded by one of their customers, so part of their product is onboarding, and when a new hire goes through this onboarding process, Rippling sends them an NPS survey. Anybody that marks that sur…”
Sam Blond Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 19:00 CRO Confidential: The Hangover's Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong's SVP
Assertion Partly supported
Lemkin: SaaStr LinkedIn Poll Found Only 2% Make AI SDRs Work
“Tomas Tungas came and said he did this survey and no one could get them to work. I didn't have an opinion, but I did it on our LinkedIn poll. We had 3000 folks. Only two percent folks said they get the AISD work.”
Jason Lemkin May 28, 2025 ▶ 38:19 AI, Sales + GTM in 2026: This Changes Everything with Jason Lemkin and Owner CRO Kyle Norton
Prediction Held up
Cabane: LinkedIn removed intent data ahead of a major AI product launch
“You've got to wonder what they're doing, especially because they've removed their intent data product three weeks ago, right? So you've got to wonder, is it because they don't care, or is it because they're going to announce something big? I think the latter.”
Guillaume Cabane Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 31:00 Deep Dive: AI-Powered Marketing to Get More Leads and Customers with HyperGrowth Partners
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Salesloft abandoned $7M in revenue after LinkedIn threatened litigation
“His first product, before Salesoft was the product that it stayed, a different product called Prospector that had seven million in revenue. LinkedIn threatened to sue them, and they had to abandon seven million revenue and start from scratch.”
Jason Lemkin Jul 14, 2023 ▶ 39:08 Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
Assertion Supported
Moody-Byrd: LinkedIn Sales Solutions generates up to $2B in annual revenue
“So in the fail solutions business, we really are a startup within the business, even though we're a billion and a half dollars hitting upon two billion dollars.”
Gail Moody-Byrd Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 10:33 The Top Marketing Strategies for AI-Driven Growth with the CMOs of Snowflake, LinkedIn, and Carta
Assertion Partly supported
Deeter: LinkedIn was the first private unicorn; early cloud lacked public comps
“When we, when you were starting EchoSign, I was doing Trigo, there wasn't a single public cloud company. In fact, in 2000, it took a couple of years before the first emerged and the first private unicorn was LinkedIn and like, Oh wait, so all new land.”
Byron Deeter Mar 27, 2020 ▶ 1:55 The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
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