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Jason Lemkin

Jason Lemkin

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Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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4 of Jason Lemkin's claims fit 3 mental models. Most often: Leverage, Bottlenecks, Specialise and trade.

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Leverage

Tools, code, capital and debt multiply what one person can do, in both directions.

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AI will not give every salesperson superpowers; it will give the best ones superpowers and make the mediocre ones more mediocre.

  1. Jason Lemkin Founder and CEO of SaaStr a lot of old school GTM leaders are like, you know, AI isn't going to hurt sales reps. It's just going to make them give them superpowers. The best ones, yes, the mediocre are just going to be like more mediocre, right? We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)youtube.com · 1 Jan 2026 · 1:09:58 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    a lot of old school GTM leaders are like, you know, AI isn't going to hurt sales reps. It's just going to make them give them superpowers. The best ones, yes, the mediocre are just going to be like more mediocre, right?

AI is raising what a single sales rep is expected to produce by an order of magnitude.

  1. Jason Lemkin Founder and CEO of SaaStr With AI, he's trying he's targeting 3 to five million in revenue per rep. 3 to 5 million. Honestly, if this was three or four years ago for a similar company, it would be 3 to 500K. That's an order of magnitude more efficiency. We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)youtube.com · 1 Jan 2026 · 1:00:36 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    With AI, he's trying he's targeting 3 to five million in revenue per rep. 3 to 5 million. Honestly, if this was three or four years ago for a similar company, it would be 3 to 500K. That's an order of magnitude more efficiency.

Bottlenecks

A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.

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The next constraint on AI adoption is not what the agents can do but how many of them a company can absorb.

  1. Jason Lemkin Founder and CEO of SaaStr And so that's going to be a headwind that today everything seems like it has tailwinds, right? Everything's on fire. But people are going to get exhausted for having so many agents. We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)youtube.com · 1 Jan 2026 · 0:42:00 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    And so that's going to be a headwind that today everything seems like it has tailwinds, right? Everything's on fire. But people are going to get exhausted for having so many agents.

Specialise and trade

Do what you are relatively best at and trade for the rest (comparative advantage); it holds until power or change breaks it.

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Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software.

  1. Jason Lemkin Founder and CEO of SaaStr Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this. We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)youtube.com · 1 Jan 2026 · 0:29:11 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.