A ranking of the builders behind these apps needs a link between a person and a product, and we do not record one yet. When we do it will come from launch posts people wrote themselves. Business profiles only, never personal accounts.
Grok Bot + Grok 4.6—what’s great (and what’s still hype) Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Bolt.new —Turn your idea into a real product Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira In this solo episode, Claire tests Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and Grok 4.6 to figure out what’s genuinely useful and what’s still mostly hype. She shares the Grok Bot feature that immed…
Ryan Carson is a five-time founder and the current solo founder of Untangle, a B2B SaaS platform for family law firms. Before Untangle, he co-founded Treehouse, an online coding education platform, and has spent the better part of two decades building and leading tech companies. He’s active on X, where he shares his solo founder journey in real time, including what he actually spends on AI tools e…
Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterprise sales, and for that reason, this is her third visit to the podcast. In our first conversation we went deep on founder-led sales; in our second we mapped the $1M–$10M playbook. This time we do something I’ve never seen on another podcast: wa…
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This week I’m doing a solo breakdown of everything xAI and Cursor have shipped recently, including Grok Bot, Cursor Origin, and the Grok 4.6 model. I set up five Grok Bots, ran Grok 4.6 through my Claire Weighted Index against GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Opus 5, and spent time actually using Origin as a GitHub replacement. Here’s what’s worth your attention, what’s overhyped, and where I’m p…
👋 Hey there, I’m Lenny. Each week, I share deeply researched product, growth, and career advice. For more: Lenny’s Jobs | Lenny’s Podcast | How I AI | Lennybot | Become an AI-Native Builder and some other favorite AI/PM courses Subscribe now P.S. Get a full free year of Cursor, Notion, Replit, Lovable, Factory, Wispr Flow, Linear, ElevenLabs, PostHog, Brain.fm, Waking Up, and more, by becoming an…
How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Merge —Connective infrastructure for production AI Jira AI SDLC —Get your tokens’ worth with Jira Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand she’s building without an engineering team. In this episo…
Yana Welinder is the solo founder of Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion brand built with AI as her technical co-founder, starting from hand-drawn sketches and ending with runway photos, CAD files for 3D printing, and a live Stripe-connected pre-order site—no engineers required. A former product leader, she brings an operator’s rigor to her creative process: her “fashion prompt” is a detailed spec cov…
Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI, he was at Artifact, the AI-powered news app built by the founders of Instagram. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Instagram, where he worked on products including Reels. Ian is one of the most consequential designers…
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Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: WorkOS —Make your app Enterprise Ready, with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more Claire built an AI agent that reviews pull requests, scores their risk, auto-approves the safest ones, and sends anything questionable to Slack. In this episode, she breaks down how she built the entire…
Dear SaaStr: Why Do Enterprise Customers Insist on Pilots? I know your sales team probably hates pilots, because in a sense, it means they have to sell the deal twice. Once for the pilot, and again to convert the pilot for a longer deal. Having an “opt out” clause after a pilot ends helps, but still, it’s a double sale. But the thing is, net net it might be less work. Because so many enterprise cu…
"To really invest in your team, product, etc. you need at least $1 on the balance sheet for each $2 in ARR. At $20m ARR? You need $10m in the bank to make the hires, burn the tokens, etc. to really get to the next level. Below that … you hesitate." pic.twitter.com/Vdgzq0uKxC — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 27, 2026 A ways back, I met with a sales leader I’ve known for years, a…
Dear SaaStr: What’s the #1 Way I Can Accelerate My Career Growth? My uber-learnings: Find the best boss you can; and Take on every initiative, project, task, and endeavor you possibly can from her. And work for them for a while. Long enough to get promoted once, ideally twice. Ideally, 3-4 years. The best career accelerator I ever got was working for a few great bosses. And doing the things they p…
Times for many are so different in B2B than they used to be. For those with AI tailwainds, growth is like nothing we’ve ever seen. For those without, it can seem like everyone wants to downgrade or cut. For some, it’s somewhere in the middle. It can seem like somehow, the sales playbook has changed. And to some extent it has. But there are a common set of things you just have to do to scale sales…
Dear SaaStr: What Do You Have to Get Right in a Start-Up? So many folks I meet want to start a start-up. They have an idea they are passionate about. They’ve worked under a great CEO, and they’re ready — they think — to do it on their own this time. What does it take? Well … Let’s talk about what you don’t have to get right: Rockstar Founders? Not required . Yes, to build the next Slack, the next…
There’s a set of questions I get asked all the time: Should you pay sales reps on renewals? Should you pay sales reps on upsells a long time down the road? Should you pay sales reps on … ? I am a huge proponent of paying sales professionals well. But for these sorts of questions, my answer is almost always: No. Pay closers on closing. Period. At least, after you are past $2m or so and are ready to…
Dear SaaStr: Can free pilots and trials periods count towards gross revenue then deducted as a marketing expense? No. First, if you really want to do this — i.e., net a pilot against marketing expense — then you do have to still charge for it . Even if you provide the customer other services. Second, it’s misleading. The only possible benefit here is to mislead early-stage investors. Just don’t do…
"You think brand doesn't matter in the early days. But it turns out, you'll have a 'mini-brand' far earlier than you might think. Often by just $2-$3m ARR. Customers in your niche, in the part of the market where you do win, will start to hear about you. Double down and… pic.twitter.com/xa6ksY6lQ5 — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) August 31, 2026 If you’re selling to the enterprise, or…