SaaStr 847: How MangoMint Increased Win Rates with an AI-Powered Stack
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
Release Date: 03/25/2026
SaaStr 848: How AI Is Rewiring Sales: Quota, Retention & What's Actually Working with SaaStr, Salesforce and Mangomint
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SaaStr 848: How AI Is Rewiring Sales: Quota, Retention & What's Actually Working with SaaStr, Salesforce and Mangomint In this episode, three revenue leaders at very different stages of AI adoption get real about what's actually working, what's embarrassingly broken, and why nobody should be doubling quota just yet. Panelists: Greg Beltzer — Chief Customer Officer, AgentForce (Salesforce) Ashley Wilson — Co-founder, Momentum by Salesforce Marchelle Mooney — VP of Sales, Mangomint Amelia Lerutte - Chief AI Officer, SaaStr They cover: Why every company has leads they...
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SaaStr 847: How MangoMint Increased Win Rates with an AI-Powered Stack
The Official SaaStr Podcast: SaaS | Founders | Investors
What happens when you go all-in on AI tools in a completely remote organization at scale? That's where Marchelle Mooney, VP of Sales at MangoMint, found herself. MangoMint is vertical SaaS for salons and spas with a ~$4K ACV and a five-day sales cycle. Not exactly the profile you'd expect to be running one of the most disciplined remote revenue organizations in SaaS. But Marchelle's team is closing in on a 7.2x ARR-to-OTE ratio, has increased win rates 7% in two quarters, and has given reps 16 hours back per month. All fully remote, all with lean headcount. In this session, Marchelle...
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SaaStr 846: 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO
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SaaStr 846: 10 Things to Know Before You Deploy Your First AI SDR with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO If you're about to roll out your first AI SDR, or you're on your second or third deployment and still not getting the results you want, this one's for you. Amelia Lerutte, SaaStr Chief AI Officer, and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Founder, walk through everything they've learned from running 20+ AI agents in production at SaaStr, including four AI SDRs spanning outbound, inbound, customer success, and sponsor engagement. After 10 months, 1.5 million inbound sessions, and over 200,000 outbound...
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SaaStr 845: How SaaStr Built a $5 million Pipeline Machine with 1.5 Humans and 20 AI Agents with SaaStr's Chief AI Officer and Momentum from Salesforce's VP of GTM
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SaaStr 845: How SaaStr Built a $5 million Pipeline Machine with 1.5 Humans and 20 AI Agents with SaaStr's Chief AI Officer and Momentum from Salesforce's VP of GTM Amelia LeRutte, SaaStr's Chief AI Officer (and the person Jason Lemkin calls "the AI Agent Whisperer"), breaks down exactly how she went from managing a 10-person team to running 20 AI agents that generated $4.8M in additional pipeline — and closed half of it. In this episode, Amelia walks Jonathan Kvarfordt, Momentum from Salesforce's VP of GTM through: — Her journey from social media manager to Chief AI Officer,...
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SaaStr 844: The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
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The Top 5 Issues Managing Multiple AI Agents in Production Managing 1-2 AI agents? Easy. Managing 20+? That's a different game entirely. After 9+ months running nearly 30 AI agents in production at SaaStr, we've learned what actually breaks at scale - and nobody's talking about it. This isn't about deployment tips or vendor selection. This is about the brutal realities that only emerge when you're juggling 20+ agents generating $1M+ in revenue. 🔥 THE 5 ISSUES WE COVER: 1. The Context Switching Tax (2:15) Managing 20 agents = managing 20 employees who all speak different languages. Each...
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SaaStr 843: Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
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SAASTR 843: Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know. SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin joins the TBPN show for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of SaaS, AI, and venture capital. Jason shares how he shrunk his team from 15 to 3 people by going all-in on AI agents, why he's lost patience with companies that haven't re-accelerated growth, and the real economics behind running large-scale events. He breaks down why PE has "said goodbye to B2B," how vibe coding is flooding the market with competitors, and what's making the IPO window both exciting...
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SaaStr 842: The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Build vs Buy with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO
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SaaStr 842: The 90/10 Rule for AI Agents: What to Build vs Buy with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO SaaStr's Chief AI Officer, Amelia Lerutte, and SaaStr CEO & Founder Jason Lemkin break down SaaStr's evolving 90/10 rule for AI agents and apps: buy 90% off the shelf, build the 10% you can't find. In this episode, they walk through two recently built tools: an internal AI VP of Marketing and an external-facing customer portal, and share the real trade-offs of deploying vibe coding apps into production. Topics covered: Why we replaced a paid SaaS tool with a vibe-coded app (and what pushed us over...
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SaaStr 841: Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales.
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SaaStr 841: Going From Blobs to Billions. Clay's Co-Founder Breaks Down Inbound, Outbound, and AI-Powered Sales. Clay's Co-Founder Varun Anand takes the stage at SaaStr to break down how the company went from paying for claymation blobs before generating any revenue to powering growth workflows for companies like Cursor, Anthropic, and Figma. He explains why brand has always been core to Clay's identity, how their CFO roast videos and creative campaigns are actually capturing mindshare in a world where B2B marketing is painfully boring, and why he pushes back on the "use AI for everything"...
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SaaStr 840: From 1 Agent to 20+: The Reality of Managing Multiple AI Agents Across Your GTM with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO
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SaaStr 840: From 1 Agent to 20+: The Reality of Managing Multiple AI Agents Across Your GTM with SaaStr's CEO and CAIO Eight months and 20+ AI agents later, what does managing a multi-agent GTM stack actually look like day to day? SaaStr's CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin, and SaaStr's Chief AI Officer, Amelia Lerutte, get candid about what's working, and what's not. $4.8M in additional pipeline later, AI agents deployed across Go To Market have helped deal volume doubled and win rates double. But here's what nobody talks about on LinkedIn: the 15-20 hours per week each spent maintaining...
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SaaStr 839: Why Most SaaS Companies Will Fail at AI (And How to Avoid It) with Intercom's CPO
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SaaStr 839: Why Most SaaS Companies Will Fail at AI (And How to Avoid It) with Intercom's CPO The Brutal Truth About Transforming a SaaS Company into an AI Company Intercom's Chief Product Officer, Paul Adams, shares the unfiltered story of how they transformed from a struggling SaaS company with 5 quarters of declining growth into an AI-first company with a breakthrough product (Fin) that now handles 1M+ customer resolutions per week. What You'll Learn: Why AI transformation requires "refounding" your entire company - not just adding AI features The self-harming decisions you must make to...
info_outlineWhat happens when you go all-in on AI tools in a completely remote organization at scale?
That's where Marchelle Mooney, VP of Sales at MangoMint, found herself.
MangoMint is vertical SaaS for salons and spas with a ~$4K ACV and a five-day sales cycle. Not exactly the profile you'd expect to be running one of the most disciplined remote revenue organizations in SaaS. But Marchelle's team is closing in on a 7.2x ARR-to-OTE ratio, has increased win rates 7% in two quarters, and has given reps 16 hours back per month. All fully remote, all with lean headcount.
In this session, Marchelle breaks down the exact three-layer AI Rigor Stack she built to get there: the Clarity Layer, the Cadence Layer, and the Co-Pilot Layer. She also walks through the full tool stack (Notion, Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake, Sigma, Momentum) and how data flows automatically to reps without them ever hunting for a dashboard.
The core insight: the problem was never the tools. It was fragmentation. And the path to fixing it runs through subtraction, not addition.
If you're running a remote or hybrid revenue org and feel like you're running fast but not getting anywhere, this one's for you.
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