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Should You Hire a Sales Rep First, Or a Sales Manager?
Oct 26, 2026
Dear SaaStr: Should I Hire a Sales Rep First, Or a Sales Manager First? https://youtu.be/Sa1YwvTAYiE The ideal flow is: You (founder-CEO) close the first batch of customers, say the first 10 or 20. If you don’t, you’ll never really know how it’s done. Or be able to...
Jason’s Takes on This Week’s 20VC: Meet 100 VCs, None-and-Done Beats One-and-Done, and Build-to-Prod Is Where I’d Make 10 Bets
Oct 25, 2026
The deeper cut on a week where capital concentrated harder than I've ever seen, and what founders should actually do about it Harry, Rory and I covered a lot this week: a $20M ARR profitable company that can't get a meeting, Anthropic's $16.8B quarter, CoreWeave's 25%...
Your Top Job For 2027: Hire 1-2 Execs Who Can Take the Load, Not Just Do the Work
Oct 25, 2026
I was with a great agentic B2B CEO this week, $100M+ ARR and still growing fast, and we got into hiring ex-founders. I'm a huge proponent. Every B2B company at scale should have 1 to 3 ex-founder CEOs on the team. They have superpowers you can't train into an operator...
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Should You Hire a Sales Rep First, Or a Sales Manager?
By Jason Lemkin | October 26, 2026
Dear SaaStr: Should I Hire a Sales Rep First, Or a Sales Manager First? The ideal flow is: You (founder-CEO) close the first batch of customers, say the first 10 or 20. If you don’t, you’ll never really know how it’s done. Or be able to help anyone else, really. Then, once you know how to…
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Jason’s Takes on This Week’s 20VC: Meet 100 VCs, None-and-Done Beats One-and-Done, and Build-to-Prod Is Where I’d Make 10 Bets
By Jason Lemkin | October 25, 2026
The deeper cut on a week where capital concentrated harder than I’ve ever seen, and what founders should actually do about it Harry, Rory and I covered a lot this week: a $20M ARR profitable company that can’t get a meeting, Anthropic’s $16.8B quarter, CoreWeave’s 25% drop, Modal at $15.75B, and Berkshire doubling down on…
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Your Top Job For 2027: Hire 1-2 Execs Who Can Take the Load, Not Just Do the Work
By Jason Lemkin | October 25, 2026
I was with a great agentic B2B CEO this week, $100M+ ARR and still growing fast, and we got into hiring ex-founders. I’m a huge proponent. Every B2B company at scale should have 1 to 3 ex-founder CEOs on the team. They have superpowers you can’t train into an operator who has never been a…
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We just wrapped SaaStr AI Annual 2026, and the closing Q&A on Day 3 ended up being one of the most engaged of the whole gathering. No script, no prepared deck, just an hour-and-a-half of questions from the audience on the topics most on their mind....
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Dear SaaStr: Can an Entrepreneur Back Out of a Signed Term Sheet Without Damaging Their Reputation?
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Dear SaaStr: Can an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging their reputation? In my experience — Yes, probably. As a founder, you can back out of a term sheet if something is off, or even if you just get another offer you prefer. There is a lot...


