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Jason’s Takes on This Week’s 20VC x SaaStr: Pro Rata Fights, the First Real AI Price Drop, and Why $500M ARR Isn’t Safe Anymore
The SaaStr-side lessons from Valar, Jev, Haiku 5.5, Airtable and the Decacorn boom #1. Got cut out of a round? Say it once, then drop it. Years ago I was the only investor in a company for years. I bridged it when no one
Cloudflare Cut 20%. Atlassian Cut 10%, Mostly Engineers. Bending Spoons Cuts Up to 75%. All Three Are Growing Faster or Earning More. So How Lean Can B2B Teams Really Get?
Bending Spoons just announced most of the Airtable team will be laid off, explaining that small teams ship more and better. He pointed to a new Core team that has shipped 30+ top customer requests in 3 weeks, plus new Pe
Going Headless: Claudeforce vs. Replit vs. Lovable, Agents Picking Our Vendors, and Two of Our Agents Built Their Own Inbox to Talk Behind Our Back: The Agents #016
Amelia and I just published Episode #016 of The Agents. Same setup as always: three humans, 21+ agents in production, and a B2B + AI business on track for about $20M this year. This week we went deep on truly going ̶
G2’s 2026 AI Agents Report: Only 9% of Buyers Think Seat Pricing Is Fair, 57% Want Usage-Based, and 74% Will Shop You at Renewal
G2 surveyed 1,019 B2B decision-makers in July 2026 for its 2026 AI Agents Insight Report. The most valuable data for founders is on pricing and renewals. 86% of B2B software buyers say their company bought AI agent softw
Your customer data just got a lot more actionable 🚀
Contact lists, contact profiles, and batch actions are now live in ChartMogul. ChartMogul already knows who your trial users are, which accounts bring in the most MRR, and who churned last quarter. Until now, acting on t
Introducing ChartMogul AI
Today we’re launching ChartMogul AI : an analyst inside ChartMogul that investigates your data, traces metric changes back to the customers and movements behind them, and helps you understand what is happening beneath th
PLG Is Getting More Technical, More Cross-Functional, and More Human
The vast majority of our customers are building ambitious SaaS businesses by way of smart, opinionated products. They don’t have massive amounts of capital, rooms full of Enterprise AEs, or six-figure contracts. In the m
From Signup to Value: How AI Is Changing Activation in SaaS
Users are trying a new product and getting to value faster than ever. That first “oh, this actually works” feeling, which used to take days of setup and onboarding, is now happening in the first session, sometimes in the
ChartMogul + Crono: bringing outbound workflow to ChartMogul CRM
Outbound sales is really about one thing: starting the conversation. When it’s done well, it isn’t about pressure or persuasion tricks. It’s about showing up with something genuinely worth offering. That could be an indu
Introducing the native ChartMogul integration for n8n
We’re excited to share that ChartMogul is now available as a native integration in n8n, giving you a faster, easier, and more flexible way to build automated workflows around your customer data. If you’re already using n
AI in SaaS: What the Law Currently Says
AI has moved from a side project to a core capability in SaaS products. Teams are integrating LLMs into customer support workflows, analytics pipelines, internal tools, and even core product features. If you’re experimen
Why it has never been easier or cheaper to build a high-accuracy SaaS attribution model
Marketing attribution in SaaS has a reputation for being complex, unreliable, and expensive. Over the last fifteen years, the industry has focused heavily on pipeline performance marketing. Many teams have over-indexed o
Fast forever: how to keep shipping at speed as your SaaS company grows
We’ve been building ChartMogul for more than a decade. I’m a product-focused generalist and a solo founder with a deep love for design and detail. Over the years, I’ve come to believe that a company’s rate of innovation
10 “Simple” Ways to Increase Your Win Rates
Dear SaaStr: What Can I Do To Increase My Win Rates? Two years ago, the answer to this question was mostly sales execution. Hire a better VP of Sales, train on competition, run a real bake-off, review your lost deals. Al
Just How Long Does The Average CMO and CRO Last? The Data From 14,000 Execs
49.7% of execs changed jobs in the last 16 months. 63% of CMOs turned over, says Jason Lemkin. "We have to constantly enrich our data because our buyers… turn over so fast that they're usually not there by the
Why CMO is a Really Tough Job: You Have To Deploy The Capital. And It Has To Work.
63% of CMOs changed jobs in the last 16 months. "Half of people changed jobs in 16 months. But CMOs changed at a much higher rate: 63%," says Amelia. Your champion is gone by next SaaStr Annual. pic.twitter.com/a
Dear SaaStr: What Role Do Founders Play Once They Hire an Outside CEO?
Dear SaaStr: What Role Do Founders Play Once They Hire an Outside CEO? Let me take a slightly different take on the question. Maybe you are really asking – “Am I still on the hook if we hire a ‘realR
Dear SaaStr: How Can You Land Big Customers If You’re a New Startup No One Has Heard Of?
Dear SaaStr: How Can You Land Big Customers If You’re a New Startup No One Has Heard Of? Solve one of their top pain points, for real — that no other vendor is solving. And do it in a way that isn’t super risky. If
Dear SaaStr: Once Your Equity Vests In a Startup … Why Stick Around?
Dear SaaStr: Once Your Equity Vests In a Startup … Why Stick Around? It’s an interesting and subtle question, especially these days in the Bay Area, where many barely stay 1 year to their cliff, let alone the full