The 'Godfather of SaaS' says he replaced most of his sales team with AI agents: 'We're done with hiring humans'

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SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin

Jason Lemkin

Startups love to boast about 'ARR.' AI could bring this to an abrupt end.

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Arrr

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'

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Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff

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Marc Benioff is writing Salesforce's annual strategy document. He shared the key details early with Business Insider.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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RBC Capital says these software companies are the most likely to be acquired as AI eats the world

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Michael Douglas starring as leveraged buyout dealmaker Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie
Michael Douglas starring as leveraged buyout dealmaker Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie "Wall Street."

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What does Palantir CEO Alex Karp's favorite word actually mean?

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Alex Karp
Alex Karp frequently uses a word that most of us have never heard: ontology.

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Beyond Resilience

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Beyond Resilience

Everyone's asking if AI will pay off. This company has proof it does.

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TS Imagine COO Thomas Bodneski
TS Imagine COO Thomas Bodneski

TS Imagine

PhDs are the new MBAs for founders in the AI era, as college dropouts remain an outlier

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Building a pet website with Cursor.
Developers use Cursor to build a pet website at a hackathon in Singapore. Cursor has become one of the fastest-growing AI tools.

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OpenAI dishes more details on its internal AI software tools, including a sales assistant and customer service agent

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OpenAI's Scotty Huhn discusses the startup's internal AI software tools at the DevDay conference in San Francisco
OpenAI's Scotty Huhn discusses the startup's internal AI software tools at the DevDay conference in San Francisco

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