SaaStr 835: AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

Welcome to the official Saster podcast where you can hear some of the best Saster speakers. This is where the cloud meets. Up today on the Saster podcast, frankly, if you didn't accelerate growth d because you had a year. You had a year. I I give everyone a pass for last year. I give everyone a big pass for 2023. All these tools were kinda terrible in AI. No one gets a pass this year. You saw it it coming. You saw it changing. You saw these AgenTek tools getting better. If you didn't reaccelerate and you weren't in market with a great agent, a great AgenTek product this year, you get a d minus, but you don't get enough because you got through the year. But you can't get the d next year. Year. It's a year late. So this is your job to go find it. Right? Find the tailwinds. Hey, Sasser. Imagine having agents for every support tab. One that triages tickets, tickets, another that catches duplicates, one that spots churn risk. That'd be pretty amazing. Right? Happy Fox just made it real with autopilot. These prebuilt AI agents deploy in about sixty seconds and run for as low as 2¢ per successful action. All of it sits inside the Happy Fox omnichannel AI first support stack, chatbot, Copilot, and Autopilot working as one. Check them out at happyfox.com/saastr. Hey, everybody. SaaStr annual will be back May 2026, the world's largest SaaS and AI gathering for executives. Just as last May, we hosted 10,000 attendees with 68 VP level and above attendees, 36% CEOs and founders, and 25% were AI first professionals. It's the very best of s tier attendees and decision makers that come to SaaSter annual and AI summit each and every year. But here's the reality, folks. The longer you wait, the longer you wait, the higher ticket prices get there cheap now. They're cheap, so just get them. Early lock in your spot today. Use my code Jason100 for exclusive savings. Get your tickets at podcast.sasterannual.com or just use code Jason100 when you check out. See you there. SaaStr annual and AI summit twenty twenty six. It will rock. The the theme of this session, so much of what we've done has been tact. Well, this will be tactically in a different way is what's your job for next year? And I think a lot of folks that have already been here today and yesterday have come out, and my job is to bring back a couple of agents next year. My job is to automate the GTM. My job is to move faster and use these tools, and that's all great. And the rest of the year, our whole theme will be very tactical. How do the tools work? What works? What are the blockers? But I think the most important thing, strategically, for folks here, if you have not ex reaccelerated or accelerate this year is you've gotta find your …