Jason M. Lemkin argues AI agents will let companies scale revenue without hiring proportional sales and marketing teams. He's on a 126-day streak building ten apps on Replit without engineers, and highlights Replit V3's agent as a true team member with a month-long memory of interactions.
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Now I look, there's some meta issues. I think we're gonna see a lot of these folks, you know, adding revenue teams, adding sales teams, adding marketers, never at the ratio of 2021. We'll never see those, those, those, those levels of staffing of humans. But it, you know, more power to Gamma getting to a billion with no sales team. Um, and Canva got pretty far, right? But knowing a few folks on the team, the B2B use case is pretty small today when I'm describing. As that blows up, they're gonna add a whole GTM team. right? So it ain't gonna be, they're gonna need 100 people to service it. But yeah, I think, I think we are, we are underestimated. And for what it's worth, the other thing I did, I did this present. So I've been vibe coding for 126 days. Feels like a lot of change. So I did this presentation, all hands at Replit, 125 days and 10 apps. I launched 10 apps in 125 days without an engineer. And I, I shared the data and most of the stuff that went well and a few areas to improvement. And I learned a lot of things, including the engineering team there is really, really, really good. But it occurred to me in the middle of this while I was talking that the agent now, the Replit agent, of all the agents we use, we use about 20 agents, 12 real ones. The Replit one, the V3 one, is the first one that is literally part of our team. Not making us more efficient like our SDRs and BDRs. Repli is part of our team. It now has essentially infinite context window. It remembers everything I've done for the last month with it. It remembers all of it. We talk about it. We talk about our mistakes. When I fi— and then, so I'm doing the presentation. I'm like, oh, I have this new idea.
