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Jason Lemkin

15 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 22, 2016 by Max Altshuler · said 75 times in 45 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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2016 29 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode

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Everything said about Jason Lemkin, oldest first

Dec 22, 2016
Disclosure
Altshuler: Sales Hacker took a profit share for producing SaaStr Annual
“We took a percentage of profits of all profits for Saster because we managed the entire event.”
Max Altshuler Dec 22, 2016 ▶ 10:53 EP 516: SalesHacker $2.5m 2015 Revenue Helping Sales Reps Get Smarter with CEO Max Altshculer
Aug 25, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr has 120,000 subscribers on its email list
“We only have a 120,000 people on our list.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 14:41 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr generates $25M in revenue with only 10 employees
“We have only 10 employees doing twenty-five million of revenue, okay?”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 8:31 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr Annual year two lost money despite $3.6M revenue
“The second year we ended up doing 3.6 million the second year. And I can, and the breakdown was about 50 50. But everything broke and we lost actually lost money that year, even though we went from 400 K in revenue on 200 K in cost. We lost money in the next y…”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 4:24 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 positive
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Lemkin: SaaStr Scaled Early Attendance Exclusively via Unpaid Organic Content
“Second year, we didn't even, I didn't even have a list like we have today, like you and I have today. It was just word of mouth. It was just blog posts and tweets.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 5:15 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 positive
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Lemkin: 90% of SaaStr attendance comes from single-CTA emails
“90% of our attendance comes from a single CTA email.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 13:34 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
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Lemkin: SaaStr Annual base operating budget exceeds $10M
“The total turn on the lights budget will be just north of ten million to turn on the lights.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 1:39 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
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Lemkin: First SaaStr Annual cost roughly $200,000 to produce
“We spent about 200 grand to produce a one day low end event in the Regency Ballroom on SF.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 3:47 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 bullish
Prediction Held up
Lemkin: SaaStr Annual Will Reach Over 10,000 Attendees in 2022
“We could not, I mean, we'll have over 10,000 this year.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 5:24 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Post-COVID event talent decayed, making large events much harder to run
“So it's much harder to do events than it used to be because the infrastructure decayed during COVID and the human infrastructure decayed. You cannot, if you go interview a hundred folks to be your VP of events, you'll be lucky if two can produce a large scale …”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 8:11 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: SaaStr core business can scale from $25M to $100M revenue
“So I think our core business can do a hundred from 25 because it's just SAS from that.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 39:12 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
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Lemkin: SaaStr Annual spends $1M to $1.5M on outdoor tents
“Tenting is well over a million dollars, approaching a million and a half dollars for an outdoor event”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 1:48 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 positive
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Lemkin: Lifetime venture investing returns are roughly 10x
“I'm about 10 X lifetime.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 20:28 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022
Disclosure
Lemkin: Bootstrapped SaaStr for seven years without taking a salary
“That's for me, that's seven years of no salary bootstrapped business until finally it clicks.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 9:20 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
Aug 25, 2022 neutral
Insight
Lemkin: Price increase warnings are the only event marketing CTA that converts
“Prices going up. That's the only CTA that works, too. Nothing else works. Prices, discounts don't work. Great speakers, you know, nothing works but prices.”
Jason Lemkin Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 14:20 How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make?
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