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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin

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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin

@jasonlk

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Palo Alto, CA

Joined April 2007

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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Jun 26
Want to build your own AI VP Marketing? We show you how: - Write the spec Define one goal and the top jobs you want the agent to do. The more detail, the better the output. Ask Claude to help you draft it. - Gather starter data Pull marketing-sourced or marketing-touched
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
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Sep 27, 2023
The new CEO of Starbucks insisted on starting as a barista for 6 months He called together his inherited management team for an offsite None knew how to make an espresso
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Apr 3, 2019
First time reporting to a CEO? 3 simple things to learn: - admit your mistakes. CEOs make even more of them. They get it. - end excuses. Those don't work anymore. - when you bring up a problem, make sure you also bring a solution. Do just this, you'll excel.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Jan 18, 2018
What I learned from 5 weeks in Beijing + Shanghai: - startup creation + velocity dwarfs anything in SF - no one in China I met is remotely worried about U.S. or possibly even cares - access to capital is crazy - scale feels about 20x of SF - endless energy - not SV jaded
Scott Kupor
@skupor
Jan 18, 2018
Mike Moritz memo to Silicon Valley startups: You are lazy (compared to China) ft.com/content/42daca… via @FT
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Jul 18, 2025
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.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Sep 21, 2018
Spouse teams don't work - Eventbrite Solo founders don't work - Zoom Need to move to SF - Shopify Winner takes all - Marketo Remind me the other rules again
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Feb 25, 2018
Tough lesson for CEOs to learn: You have to treat Great employees differently from Good ones Great ones want their careers enabled, want you to have their back, and want no politics. That's about it. Let them run. Good ones want many other, varied things. And need much more.
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Sep 6, 2018
You think startups are about a great idea But in the end they are about being great at recruiting
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Sep 8, 2018
A tough week So, Dear @elonmusk, thank you for creating and building cars that help save the environment and make my drive 100x less stressful (autopilot) thank you for the dream of taking us to mars and putting the building blocks in place today
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Mar 21, 2019
To be a great CEO, You have to enjoy telling certain stories over and over again Sometimes 100s of times
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Jan 14, 2018
Stuff I've lost interest in as i got Older: - pro sports. faux tension - cars. who cares - fancy dinners. gout-in-waiting - fancy house. what's point Stuff I care more about: - helping others' careers - working with amazing CEOs - doing stuff truly at scale - family time
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Mar 13, 2023
Just got back from 3 hours at Well Fargo. To reactivate a dormant bus account. I am tagged a VIP account and yet: - Supervisor had to approve everything - No wires over $100,000 - 5 days to clear a check - Told to “do it online instead” after 2 hours This is why SVB existed
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Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
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Sep 4, 2020
If the CEO doesn't seem at least a little bit intense, Join a different start-up
Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin
@jasonlk
Oct 3, 2018
Founders notice everything. Every bug, Every screwed up deal, Every employee that didn't give it their all, Everything every competitor does, Every moment that ever mattered. Everything that matters. Just make sure you keep most of it to yourself.