A new concept proposes using an AI agent as a board member to analyze financials, benchmark competitors, and set meeting agendas, potentially saving hours of unproductive time. The idea stems from a c…
In a 20VC podcast episode, Jason Calacanis recounted how connecting Google Drive to Fable, an AI tool, granted the agent read access to all his files and write access to his repository, leading it to …
AI sales development representatives (SDRs) and go-to-market (GTM) agents are multipliers, not creators, according to SaaStr, which deployed 20+ AI agents that generated over $3.7 million in revenue a…
Procore Technologies reported Q2 FY26 revenue of $375 million, up 16% year-over-year, beating its guidance of $364 million to $366 million, and achieved its first-ever positive GAAP operating margin o…
On the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings and Rory O'Driscoll, Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X was an open-weights manifesto signed by over 50 companies including Microsoft, Meta, and IBM, with Ant…
A senior industry observer argues that the Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) role is almost always a failure, especially for B2B companies north of $100M ARR in the age of AI. The author conte…
Adobe Marketo, a $60,000-a-year B2B marketing platform, suffered a day-and-a-half outage that prevented SaaStr from sending its newsletter to 450,000 subscribers, had a broken unsubscribe link for wee…
Anthropic's Head of Industries Eleanor Dorfman reported that 54% of new enterprise logos now close through self-serve after the company rebuilt its enterprise motion around AI instead of hiring more s…
SaaStr trained an AI agent called 10K to handle the entire post-deal finance workflow—from contract signing to invoicing, collections, and commission calculation—after just four real deals. The agent,…
Three executives from Atlassian, Anthropic, and Scale Venture Partners independently converged on the same AI playbook at SaaStr AI 2026: the winning approach is not to choose between binary options l…
SaaS companies should stop pushing for multi-year contracts in the Age of AI, as shorter contracts become the norm. According to ICONIQ's 2026 data, three-year contracts dropped from 28% of new logos …
SaaStr, an eight-figure B2B business run by three humans and 21+ AI agents, consolidated its agent workforce from nearly 30 to about 20, resulting in a roughly 4x increase in output. CEO Jason Lemkin …
Stripe's 2025 revenue hit $6.8 billion, up 33% year-over-year, with free cash flow surging 52% to $3.2 billion, yielding a 47% free cash flow margin, according to The Information. The payments company…
SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin replaced a $4,000/year newsletter tool with a custom AI-powered version built in two hours using Replit and Claude, saving his chief AI officer 90 minutes weekly. Lemkin argues…
SaaStr AI has reduced its human team from ~30 to 3 while deploying 20+ AI agents in production, achieving a 47% year-over-year revenue increase to positive growth and closing over $1M in revenue, but …
SaaStr AI reported that a repeat sponsor's ad campaign across 67 newsletter editions generated 5,465,855 impressions, 944,255 opens, and 11,749 visits directly to the sponsor's signup form, driving 11…
A cohort of public software companies including Dropbox, Zoom, DocuSign, and PagerDuty are now growing under 5%, and the market has stopped pricing them as durable annuities. Dropbox grew 0.8% last qu…
Jason Lemkin warns B2B founders that AI token spend can balloon 60x unchecked, as seen at ClickHouse since February, and urges putting a spend governor in place before the CFO does. He argues net new …
ICONIQ's 2026 GTM benchmark report reveals top-quartile enterprise account executives now carry $2.25M annual quotas, with mid-market at $1.35M and SMB at $750K, driven by AI-enhanced pipeline generat…
Nue, a revenue platform built for B2B and AI companies, is this week's SaaStr AI App of the Week because it solves the hardest problem in B2B + AI: pricing. The platform collapses CPQ, billing, usage …