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[@jasonlk](/creator/twitter/jasonlk)
"So we recently recommended one of the top AI GTM SaaStr itself uses to a @saastrfund portfolio company and the vendor turned them down. They said No they wouldnt sell them their $60k+ a year AI Agent. And that was the right call. The potential customer had neither the usage nor the proper resources to own the AI Agent after an FDE would help them get going. The vendor just didnt want to risk a bad deployment and probably also a waste of FDE resources too. So they didnt take the $60k+ a year. Im proud of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1976415124236939759) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-09T22:31Z 218.4K followers, 3655 engagements


"This week I did a talk at @saastrfund portfolio company @mangomint on what we've learned putting 20+ AI Agents into production for real I was asked "What's the #1 thing I can do to get smart about AI today" πŸ‘‰ My answer: Go build a clone of your own app on @Replit Literally go into Replit and try it out. Tell it to build a clone of your own app. "Build me a version of MangoMint that ." Of course it won't work 100%. That's OK. But you quickly learn what AI can do in code today this way. See what works what doesn't ask the AI agent in Replit to iterate and do more. Watch what you learn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1976780028861202596) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-10T22:41Z 218.4K followers, 6168 engagements


"I think after 100+ days and with X apps vibe coded into production with @Replit used over 500000 times we're just getting going. 🧠And I think key to that is that I'm now "Replit Fluent". What does that mean It's a state where I know how to vibe well enough (without a developer) and I know the app and its capability and limits well enough that I can basically see any app I want to build in my head and now know how to completely prompt it and shepherd it to production before I start. I remember in the early days of Cursor my son actually paid out of his own pocket for the first time since"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979291075610317308) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-17T20:59Z 218.4K followers, 16.7K engagements


"πŸ”₯ The Latest IPO is Netskope. And it's Fire. πŸ”₯ Cloud security platform filed this week and is . crushing it: πŸ“ˆ $707M ARR (+33% YoY) πŸ’° $538M revenue (+32% YoY) 🏒 4317 customers (+21% YoY) 30%+ of Fortune XXX as customers πŸ“Š XXX% net retention rate 🌍 120+ data centers globally 🎯 $139B market opportunity From -XX% to +3% operating cash flow margin in X months. Talk about acceleration πŸš€ The IPOs in 2025 have been great. The ones coming soon and in 2026 Even better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1959819104178909411) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-08-25T03:24Z 218.4K followers, 12.2K engagements


"@Replit 4/ The rule: If you can buy it buy it. If you need to dream it vibe it. Don't rebuild Salesforce to save $200/month. Build what doesn't exist. I'm using Replit for things that can't be configured in existing tools. That's the play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980678127862075894) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T16:50Z 218.4K followers, 3017 engagements


"One of the best CEOs I know said to me the other day "I wish we'd never allowed work from home I know this is a complex issue even today and for many a triggering one. What I can tell you in my ecosystem is the fastest moving and fastest growing startups I've invested in are either XXX% returned to office (with some exceptions but as a baseline) or XXX% distributed. Now the ones that are XXX% return to office often are more flexible than pre-2020. Few are as XXX% as pre-2020. But they are X days a week in the office as a base with the hiring trade-offs that come with that. They generally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1981006977766408312) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-22T14:37Z 218.4K followers, 29.6K engagements


"3/ Other apps shipped: - AI mentor: 130K+ uses for startup advice - Pitch deck analyzer: 1500+ founders analyzed with XXX VC dataset - Real-time benchmarking: see how you stack up against 6000 other start-ups - 30K monthly visitors X integrated sub-apps - Full AI-powered event site migrated from Squarespace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980677883053146212) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T16:49Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@ray_deck Yes E.g. Slack access already being limited"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980778654545359166) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T23:30Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements


"Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies Were sitting on a problem many dont want to talk about: the traditional SaaS exit playbook is breaking down. Even for very very good SaaS companies. For years it was predictable. Build to $20M-$50M ARR maintain decent growth buyers would come. PE would write checks. Strategic acquirers would see tuck-ins. Not anymore. πŸ’Έ The VC Money Has Gone to AI In H1 2025 AI companies attracted XX% of global VC (64% in the US). AI funding hit a $377B annualized run ratealready exceeding 2023s full-year total. Average AI deal size: $35.9M double the prior year. For"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979640758157390281) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-18T20:08Z 218.4K followers, 49K engagements


"The more customers you visit in person The more customers you close. The more revenue you retain. And the more they buy from you. As true in 2025 as it ever was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979917538172502176) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-19T14:28Z 218.4K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Im hiring an Associate at SaaStr Fund ($200m AUM) The job: X Screen 50+ inbound deals/week find the 2-3 worth the deep dive. X Help manage the new which over 5500 founders have used in XX days and uploaded over 1500 pitch decks to. Youll see 2000+ B2B/AI companies/year and learn what makes $1B+ outcomes vs. $100M outcomes. X years here X years anywhere else for learning. Email me with why its you. Must know SaaStr well and why it matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980109715595301357) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-20T03:11Z 218.4K followers, 5687 engagements


"Were launching something different at SaaStr AI. VC Matchmaking that actually works. Because most founders are pitching the wrong VCs. Or pitching before theyre ready. Join the waitlist Heres how it works: 1: You upload your pitch Real revenue. Real metrics. Real traction. We need to see the results not just the vision. 2: Our AI reviews your deck WITH you Not for you. With you. Well break down whats working whats not and what top VCs actually want to see at your stage. 3: If youre fundable right now we match you with the RIGHT VCs Not a spray-and-pray list. Not here are XXX VCs. The specific"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980445640862888194) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T01:26Z 218.4K followers, 3677 engagements


"Proud @saastrfund is joining the round for @Consio_AI and the team building the AI voice layer for ecommerce Here's why we invested: 1The Obvious Problem: Phone Converts Better Every ecommerce brand knows phone calls convert 3-5x better than web. But staffing a phone channel profitably Nearly impossible. The unit economics just don't work at scale. 2The AI Unlock: Revenue Through AI Voice Consio isn't building another chatbot. They're building AI that actually drives revenue through voice handling product recs objections upsells and support at a fraction of traditional cost. 3The Early"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980458014256554447) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T02:16Z 218.4K followers, 3934 engagements


".@Replit asked me to do a deep dive on "How I Built X Production Apps in XXX Days (And Saved $200K/Year)" It's true. A thread 🧡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980670061301100582) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T16:18Z 218.4K followers, 4608 engagements


"AI is a pretty big threat to CRM. Not the need for CRM but to its value proposition. I didnt totally get it until we deployed 11+ AI Agents. But what they do is push your CRM to the background. You dont really need to log in as often. You spend far more time working with the AI Agents than the CRM they connect to. Far more time. Your CRM becomes much more of just a database when its the agents you are interacting with. Weve already seen it. If the CRM players own the AI agents themselves probably a net positive. But if the pure-play sales marketing success etc. agents are the winners CRM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980769737379574096) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T22:54Z 218.4K followers, 88K engagements


"@ray_deck They may not. But they can handicap the others one way or another"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1980775759682933234) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-21T23:18Z 218.4K followers, 1178 engagements


"@lizwessel The classic "all my portfolio companies are using it" due diligence has a powerful sway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1981045443103773109) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-22T17:10Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements


"@DKLaudsie @Benioff @Microsoft @salesforce Backwards. He gets it. 2000 folks are building AgentForce"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1981061649923788825) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-22T18:14Z 218.4K followers, XX engagements


"The Apple IPO Another deal where the VC had to settle for less than XX% ownership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1961457399337771237) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-08-29T15:54Z 218.3K followers, 3756 engagements


"$495 is a tough price point to hire a human sales rep for But an AI agent πŸ€–They don't mind If nothing else put AI agents + AI SDRs and AEs on the deals . your humans can't be bothered with Here our @tryqualified agent (one of XX we have) just closed it on its own"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1974515142697357771) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-04T16:41Z 218.2K followers, 7354 engagements


"This A16Z chart of how much money theyve made really really shows you what an epic year 2021 was for venture. For everyone in many ways. AI should produce a few years that dwarf this. 2028"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1977042790623383908) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-11T16:05Z 218.2K followers, 20K engagements


"Its October XX If you havent gotten your investor updates out yet thats pretty bad so do it today and blame: - A Solar Flare - Exhaustion From XX Months of Straight XXX - The Fractional CFO You Hired Off LinkedIn - Spam Filters - Being On Stage for Open AI DevDay Pick one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1977398973133656371) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-12T15:40Z 218.3K followers, 6631 engagements


"Sometimes the most straightforward on-trend deals are the most lucrative. Vercel and Supabase pre-AI infrastructure components have become essential for building next-gen apps riding the wave of growth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1977558313035260291) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-13T02:13Z 218.2K followers, 5198 engagements


"Now that I have 8+ apps in production from vibe coding it's great. But every day I have some maintenance to do now. It might be XX minutes it might be much more. Like today. Now it's my "during coffee" job. It's worth it. But the upkeep is real. Real software needs real upkeep. If it's just a mock-up or a play app no big deal. But once you finally ship to production and finally have users (we're up to about 20k/mo on new SaaStr Ai app and growing) . you gotta maintain the app. Your developers aren't going to do it for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1978225301793780145) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-14T22:24Z 218.3K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@amasad I know some of it is private maybe most but would be super interesting to learn how costs have decreased at scale and get ahead of inference costs at scale (I'm pretty ignorant here. All I know is Replit is smart about model usage)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1978947006648160467) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-16T22:11Z 218.3K followers, 28.6K engagements


"@RJMcGirr It may be the only option"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979917073410072597) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-19T14:26Z 218.3K followers, XXX engagements


"A related post here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979928917612892569) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-19T15:13Z 218.3K followers, 2256 engagements


"@spenserskates @gradypb I think the reality is almost all the incremental budget in B2B is going to AI one way or another. To that and price increases. So at a practical level you have to capture that budget to grow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1979931835967955373) [@jasonlk](/creator/x/jasonlk) 2025-10-19T15:25Z 218.2K followers, XXX engagements

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@jasonlk "So we recently recommended one of the top AI GTM SaaStr itself uses to a @saastrfund portfolio company and the vendor turned them down. They said No they wouldnt sell them their $60k+ a year AI Agent. And that was the right call. The potential customer had neither the usage nor the proper resources to own the AI Agent after an FDE would help them get going. The vendor just didnt want to risk a bad deployment and probably also a waste of FDE resources too. So they didnt take the $60k+ a year. Im proud of them"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-09T22:31Z 218.4K followers, 3655 engagements

"This week I did a talk at @saastrfund portfolio company @mangomint on what we've learned putting 20+ AI Agents into production for real I was asked "What's the #1 thing I can do to get smart about AI today" πŸ‘‰ My answer: Go build a clone of your own app on @Replit Literally go into Replit and try it out. Tell it to build a clone of your own app. "Build me a version of MangoMint that ." Of course it won't work 100%. That's OK. But you quickly learn what AI can do in code today this way. See what works what doesn't ask the AI agent in Replit to iterate and do more. Watch what you learn"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-10T22:41Z 218.4K followers, 6168 engagements

"I think after 100+ days and with X apps vibe coded into production with @Replit used over 500000 times we're just getting going. 🧠And I think key to that is that I'm now "Replit Fluent". What does that mean It's a state where I know how to vibe well enough (without a developer) and I know the app and its capability and limits well enough that I can basically see any app I want to build in my head and now know how to completely prompt it and shepherd it to production before I start. I remember in the early days of Cursor my son actually paid out of his own pocket for the first time since"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-17T20:59Z 218.4K followers, 16.7K engagements

"πŸ”₯ The Latest IPO is Netskope. And it's Fire. πŸ”₯ Cloud security platform filed this week and is . crushing it: πŸ“ˆ $707M ARR (+33% YoY) πŸ’° $538M revenue (+32% YoY) 🏒 4317 customers (+21% YoY) 30%+ of Fortune XXX as customers πŸ“Š XXX% net retention rate 🌍 120+ data centers globally 🎯 $139B market opportunity From -XX% to +3% operating cash flow margin in X months. Talk about acceleration πŸš€ The IPOs in 2025 have been great. The ones coming soon and in 2026 Even better"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-08-25T03:24Z 218.4K followers, 12.2K engagements

"@Replit 4/ The rule: If you can buy it buy it. If you need to dream it vibe it. Don't rebuild Salesforce to save $200/month. Build what doesn't exist. I'm using Replit for things that can't be configured in existing tools. That's the play"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T16:50Z 218.4K followers, 3017 engagements

"One of the best CEOs I know said to me the other day "I wish we'd never allowed work from home I know this is a complex issue even today and for many a triggering one. What I can tell you in my ecosystem is the fastest moving and fastest growing startups I've invested in are either XXX% returned to office (with some exceptions but as a baseline) or XXX% distributed. Now the ones that are XXX% return to office often are more flexible than pre-2020. Few are as XXX% as pre-2020. But they are X days a week in the office as a base with the hiring trade-offs that come with that. They generally"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-22T14:37Z 218.4K followers, 29.6K engagements

"3/ Other apps shipped: - AI mentor: 130K+ uses for startup advice - Pitch deck analyzer: 1500+ founders analyzed with XXX VC dataset - Real-time benchmarking: see how you stack up against 6000 other start-ups - 30K monthly visitors X integrated sub-apps - Full AI-powered event site migrated from Squarespace"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T16:49Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@ray_deck Yes E.g. Slack access already being limited"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T23:30Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Who Will Buy The SaaS Companies Were sitting on a problem many dont want to talk about: the traditional SaaS exit playbook is breaking down. Even for very very good SaaS companies. For years it was predictable. Build to $20M-$50M ARR maintain decent growth buyers would come. PE would write checks. Strategic acquirers would see tuck-ins. Not anymore. πŸ’Έ The VC Money Has Gone to AI In H1 2025 AI companies attracted XX% of global VC (64% in the US). AI funding hit a $377B annualized run ratealready exceeding 2023s full-year total. Average AI deal size: $35.9M double the prior year. For"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-18T20:08Z 218.4K followers, 49K engagements

"The more customers you visit in person The more customers you close. The more revenue you retain. And the more they buy from you. As true in 2025 as it ever was"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-19T14:28Z 218.4K followers, 15.4K engagements

"Im hiring an Associate at SaaStr Fund ($200m AUM) The job: X Screen 50+ inbound deals/week find the 2-3 worth the deep dive. X Help manage the new which over 5500 founders have used in XX days and uploaded over 1500 pitch decks to. Youll see 2000+ B2B/AI companies/year and learn what makes $1B+ outcomes vs. $100M outcomes. X years here X years anywhere else for learning. Email me with why its you. Must know SaaStr well and why it matters"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-20T03:11Z 218.4K followers, 5687 engagements

"Were launching something different at SaaStr AI. VC Matchmaking that actually works. Because most founders are pitching the wrong VCs. Or pitching before theyre ready. Join the waitlist Heres how it works: 1: You upload your pitch Real revenue. Real metrics. Real traction. We need to see the results not just the vision. 2: Our AI reviews your deck WITH you Not for you. With you. Well break down whats working whats not and what top VCs actually want to see at your stage. 3: If youre fundable right now we match you with the RIGHT VCs Not a spray-and-pray list. Not here are XXX VCs. The specific"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T01:26Z 218.4K followers, 3677 engagements

"Proud @saastrfund is joining the round for @Consio_AI and the team building the AI voice layer for ecommerce Here's why we invested: 1The Obvious Problem: Phone Converts Better Every ecommerce brand knows phone calls convert 3-5x better than web. But staffing a phone channel profitably Nearly impossible. The unit economics just don't work at scale. 2The AI Unlock: Revenue Through AI Voice Consio isn't building another chatbot. They're building AI that actually drives revenue through voice handling product recs objections upsells and support at a fraction of traditional cost. 3The Early"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T02:16Z 218.4K followers, 3934 engagements

".@Replit asked me to do a deep dive on "How I Built X Production Apps in XXX Days (And Saved $200K/Year)" It's true. A thread 🧡"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T16:18Z 218.4K followers, 4608 engagements

"AI is a pretty big threat to CRM. Not the need for CRM but to its value proposition. I didnt totally get it until we deployed 11+ AI Agents. But what they do is push your CRM to the background. You dont really need to log in as often. You spend far more time working with the AI Agents than the CRM they connect to. Far more time. Your CRM becomes much more of just a database when its the agents you are interacting with. Weve already seen it. If the CRM players own the AI agents themselves probably a net positive. But if the pure-play sales marketing success etc. agents are the winners CRM"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T22:54Z 218.4K followers, 88K engagements

"@ray_deck They may not. But they can handicap the others one way or another"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-21T23:18Z 218.4K followers, 1178 engagements

"@lizwessel The classic "all my portfolio companies are using it" due diligence has a powerful sway"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-22T17:10Z 218.4K followers, XXX engagements

"@DKLaudsie @Benioff @Microsoft @salesforce Backwards. He gets it. 2000 folks are building AgentForce"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-22T18:14Z 218.4K followers, XX engagements

"The Apple IPO Another deal where the VC had to settle for less than XX% ownership"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-08-29T15:54Z 218.3K followers, 3756 engagements

"$495 is a tough price point to hire a human sales rep for But an AI agent πŸ€–They don't mind If nothing else put AI agents + AI SDRs and AEs on the deals . your humans can't be bothered with Here our @tryqualified agent (one of XX we have) just closed it on its own"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-04T16:41Z 218.2K followers, 7354 engagements

"This A16Z chart of how much money theyve made really really shows you what an epic year 2021 was for venture. For everyone in many ways. AI should produce a few years that dwarf this. 2028"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-11T16:05Z 218.2K followers, 20K engagements

"Its October XX If you havent gotten your investor updates out yet thats pretty bad so do it today and blame: - A Solar Flare - Exhaustion From XX Months of Straight XXX - The Fractional CFO You Hired Off LinkedIn - Spam Filters - Being On Stage for Open AI DevDay Pick one"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-12T15:40Z 218.3K followers, 6631 engagements

"Sometimes the most straightforward on-trend deals are the most lucrative. Vercel and Supabase pre-AI infrastructure components have become essential for building next-gen apps riding the wave of growth"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-13T02:13Z 218.2K followers, 5198 engagements

"Now that I have 8+ apps in production from vibe coding it's great. But every day I have some maintenance to do now. It might be XX minutes it might be much more. Like today. Now it's my "during coffee" job. It's worth it. But the upkeep is real. Real software needs real upkeep. If it's just a mock-up or a play app no big deal. But once you finally ship to production and finally have users (we're up to about 20k/mo on new SaaStr Ai app and growing) . you gotta maintain the app. Your developers aren't going to do it for you"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-14T22:24Z 218.3K followers, 11.4K engagements

"@amasad I know some of it is private maybe most but would be super interesting to learn how costs have decreased at scale and get ahead of inference costs at scale (I'm pretty ignorant here. All I know is Replit is smart about model usage)"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-16T22:11Z 218.3K followers, 28.6K engagements

"@RJMcGirr It may be the only option"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-19T14:26Z 218.3K followers, XXX engagements

"A related post here:"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-19T15:13Z 218.3K followers, 2256 engagements

"@spenserskates @gradypb I think the reality is almost all the incremental budget in B2B is going to AI one way or another. To that and price increases. So at a practical level you have to capture that budget to grow"
X Link @jasonlk 2025-10-19T15:25Z 218.2K followers, XXX engagements

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