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Lovable Has Zero Titles and Requires All Leaders to Do IC Work
“That's why we're completely flat. We don't have titles internally for a reason. Everybody is expected to do some sort of IC work. We don't have just leaders that are just sitting on top navigating things. Everybody's just expected to build”
Lovable Crossed $400M ARR With Fewer Than 200 Employees
“We shared our figures at numbers in February that we've crossed over four hundred million dollars in ARR. And we're just shy of 200 people still, so we are operating as a very tiny team for a reason.”
AI Companies Nearing $500M Revenue Must Recapture Product-Market Fit Monthly
“Even Approaching half a billion dollars in revenue, we're still on the product market fit treadmill, because category is evolving so fast, both from technological perspective, from customer perception, that we still need to keep pushing the product at the maxi…”
AI Builders Create Internal Tools in Hours Instead of Buying Software
“So often you'd go and try to do RFP and buying software and I was like, oh, let me just go build it in an hour because let me see how far I can get there. So we constantly pressure testing our own boundaries of how much of our lovable we can build on lovable o…”
Knowledge Workers Will Need Personal AI Doubles to Continue Scaling
“All of us will have to build our AI doubles at some point just to continue scaling ourselves. But your AI double, if it's just trained on world wide web, it's just going to be an average intelligence of everybody.”
Dorfman: Self-serve drives 54 percent of new Anthropic enterprise logos
“54. 54% of our new enterprise logos have come through the self-serve funnel in 2026.”
Lemkin: Buy off-the-shelf software rather than building custom AI agents
“The biggest takeaway is don't, still don't build it if you can buy it. We love Tenk and QB, they're part of our families, and I hate to say this, but we would dump both of them if there was an off the shelf tool. We wouldn't turn them off. This is the strange …”
Lemkin: Running AI agents permanently in dev environments preserves infinite context
“If you run them in the dev environment permanently, like we're doing, you get an extra agent that has an infinite context window and infinite history.”
Lemkin: 99% of successful GTM agents are optimized around Salesforce
“In GTM, I think, 99% of the agents that are working today, that are successfully are optimized around Salesforce.”
Lemkin: Platforms managing hybrid human-agent teams will win; Marketo will lose
“I think Marketo is the loser here, but I think in a lot of cases, the leaders that are, that can manage a human agent interface are going to win because we need apps to manage hybrid teams.”
Lemkin: AI will kill single-function point solutions, not public SaaS leaders
“Is the SaaS apocalypse going to kill the leaders in B to B that are public? No, there's too much workflow. They're too rich. They're too complicated, but these point solutions like this B newsletter builder, we don't need it.”
Lemkin: Non-technical customers will soon demand APIs over custom features
“So now a non-technical customer or non-technical resource of the customer will ask for an API so that they can vibe the feature that they want.”
Lemkin: Marketo API Fails for AI Agents, Graded a 'C'
“If you go down to Marketo where the API doesn't work, right? You can find it down in the C's or even search for it. It will explain to you if you want to build an agentic product, don't use Marketo.”
Lemkin: SaaStr is hiring a marketing director who reports to AI
“You do report to? Tenk, our AI VP of marketing. It's a six-figure salary. We'd like you to come into our Palo Alto office one or two days a week. Other than that, we have a lot of flexibility. Good or bad news, you report to an AI agent. This is not a joke.”
Lemkin: Hire a VP of AI instead of running change management
“What's better is if your team is Lagging or resistant, just go hire one reasonably senior person that is all in here. One. And folks will start quitting when they don't want to work at that pace anyway. You got to hire them ideally at the VP level above, and t…”
Lemkin: Nobody will pay for '60% solutions' in AI era
“If you build a 60% solution. No, one's going to pay for it.”
Lemkin: Startups must view FDEs as retention drivers, not cost centers
“View FDs as one of your most important assets to getting renewals, retention, NPS, word of mouth, virality. Don't look at FDs as a cost center. This was the mistake we made in customer success a generation ago. And this is why customer success was cut to zero …”
LaRoute: Marketo emails contacts explicitly marked as unsubscribed
“Then I look at my contact record. It was literally clicked, unsubscribed. And yet it still sent me a newsletter and that's exactly what happened to these people.”
Lemkin: SaaStr will churn from Marketo over unusable agent APIs
“We're not going to stay in Marketo, even though it's 90 years old, because we can't even, our agents can't even talk to its A, even all the other issues, even we might even forgive them can spam all these terrible things. If we, our agents could talk to it and…”
Lemkin: SaaS Companies Neglecting Their APIs Will Lose in AI Era
“So if you have not, if you, if you're not giving it the attention it deserves, you're going to lose in the authentic era because anyone can use your API and it's just going to accelerate.”
Lemkin: Agentic API quality will drive vendor switches over human sales outreach
“It might be the API that gets us to switch, not the humans, not the chocolates, not the gift certificate, but if the API is better, works better with our agents, we might spend a couple hours. It takes to move over our key accounts to ramp because it's the age…”
Wilson: Reaching $100M ARR with Two Reps Is Unrealistic for Most
“That's why I don't really buy yet into, okay, we're gonna have two reps, and we're gonna get to a hundred million, like, sure, that works if you're lovable, like, that can work with the right business, but a lot of us do not have that business, so to hold ours…”
Lemkin: AI SDRs fail unless an outbound sales playbook is proven first
“If you haven't gotten any outbound to work, Buying an AI to do it isn't, it's not going to help you. You have to prove it. Any of the agents we use, any of the dozens of agents we use, we are taking a playbook that at least works a little bit.”
Lemkin: Current AI SDR tools cannot autonomously auto-segment effectively
“None of the AI tools we use today, which are all great, but none of them can really use AI to auto segment in a way that can deliver these results.”
Ibarra: Every new AI agent requires a two-week blackout period
“Even with the help we get, like, I feel like every new agent costs us at least two weeks of what I call either a blackout period and somewhat chaotic of, like, I kind of have to ignore the other agents anytime I bring on a new agent”
Lemkin: No master orchestration product exists for multi-vendor AI agents
“We haven't found anyone that can integrate Asian force artisan qualified Monaco. Momentum. Attention. Attentive. Like we don't, there's nothing out there today, even with Tentay, which we built ourselves that at some magical API or other level can integrate ev…”
Ibarra: AI agents idle and waste money without daily human management
“You can't, you, it just can't afford to wait a whole week, or like you're, or you're probably just wasting, honestly, you're probably wasting your money if you don't spend the time to do it daily, because a lot of these are waiting for you to give it inputs, r…”
Lemkin: All third-party AI agents are less secure than Salesforce
“The honest truth is no agents, no third party agents are more secure than Salesforce. They're all less secure is the reality of it.”
Ibarra: Marketing agencies may not exist in a year
“Maybe marketing agencies won't exist in a year because of this”
Ibarra: Managing AI agents degrades your patience for managing human teams
“I do feel like now that I've flipped and switched to managing more agents, I think I've probably become slightly worse in managing the people that are, you know, that work with SaaS or especially leading up to SaaS Radial.”
Lemkin: Artisan, Monaco, and Qualified AI agents each replaced two human roles
“Or take over all of like two people did for like each of Artisan and Monaco and qualified. They replaced like two, two people each, right? That's high ROI.”
Lemkin: Mediocre Vertical SaaS Apps Risk Losing Customers Permanently to Vibe Coding
“I think there is a risk for folks building vertical apps, building niche apps. You should not build an agent if you can buy it or an app, but if you fall behind too far folks may build it out of frustration. And that's more what we did rather than try to cance…”
Lemkin: Software Companies Lacking Magical AI Will Be Quickly Disrupted
“Cuz there's really no excuse today and you're gonna be quickly disrupted and churned if you can't build something magical with your AI app today.”
Lemkin: Vibe Coding Apps to Save SaaS Fees Makes No Economic Sense
“So there's no economic justification for software costs to building these apps, right? You can buy them for 10 grand, like it makes no economic sense. So you have to really need something that you can't buy today.”
Lemkin: SaaStr Uses 20 AI Agents That Replaced Eight People
“Literally at Sastra we have 20 agents that replaced eight people, ok? We're running it all the time. We're at the bleeding edge.”
Lemkin: Software companies without accelerating growth are not AI companies
“If growth isn't accelerating, you're not an AI company.”
Lemkin: B2B CEOs report 80% of employees still work like it's 2021
“I talked to public company CO's in B to B, my own portfolio, others a lot. Since our agents blew up, everybody thinks we're some sort of, at least for GTM, we're the agent gurus, ok? It's pretty interesting. And everybody says 80% of their team wants to work l…”
Lemkin: Vibe coding cannot build Salesforce, only demo-day prototypes
“You're not going to VibeCode Salesforce for real, but you know what you can VibeCode? Something for demo day that looks really good.”
Lemkin: VCs now expect startups to hit $100M ARR in one year
“Investors are expecting insane levels of growth. Insane levels of growth, right? They want, like, the idea that you can go from one to a hundred in a year is now seen as what you want to invest in.”
Lemkin: Great compounding startups are unfundable today versus two years ago
“There's no great answers to the question that some great businesses will compound to Epic rates, but they're unfundable now, and they would have been fundable two years ago.”
Lemkin: Mobile app creation quintupled in late 2025 due to vibe coding
“At the end of last year, just all of a sudden the number of mobile apps like quintupled at the end of last year because of vibe coding, and it's just starting.”
Lemkin: Software platforms must own native agents or lose all value
“You have to own the agents on your platform, or the agents will take away all the value.”
Lemkin: SaaStr shrank to three employees due to founder hiring burnout
“Well, that's why we shrunk to three. I couldn't do it anymore. You criticize me, like take your shot at me. Right. But I have been doing it a little longer than you guys. I just couldn't take one more person paying them six figures quitting and for a worse job…”
Lemkin: Tech is entering an era of unprecedented IPO wealth creation
“We're entering an era of just Utter wealth creation from IPOs like we have never seen. Like it's just, we're underestimating, you know, I used to be a billion, you know, Billy, a unicorn used to be great.”
Using LLMs for Marketing Defeats the Purpose by Reverting to the Mean
“In marketing, for example, marketing is all about standing out. You know what large language models are all about? Not standing out. They're all about reverting to the mean, actually. And that's literally what they're synthesizing a lot of information and givi…”
Lemkin: Deeply trained AI agents cannot succeed through self-service setup
“A lot of the agents we use are pushing down market to be more self-service. So far that doesn't work. So far, I will say for the most part, agents that require deep training cannot be self-trained.”
Lemkin: AI tools will fully automate B2B marketing orchestration by H2 2026
“I think by the second half of the year, this will all work. Like instead of us having to build our own AIVPM and it being siloed, it will all connect and there won't be any excuses for shooting from the hip and marketing anymore in B to B. Like it will do all …”