Jason M. Lemkin says AI can close deals through text and voice, making traditional sales skills less valuable. He points to LennyBot and GPT voice as proof people accept AI, and argues companies need production-ready agents that work before big enterprise deals happen.
You know this line somewhere that if you can close on a text message I can close it. Yes, it is. I'm being facetious in the sense that people say that I think have weaker relationships with customers. This is why AI is people have weaker relationships with their customers than they think. Yeah. And if it's so easy to close the deal on a text message and we've done hundreds of thousands of these and founder folks don't mind if it's an AI, if it's a good AI, why won't it close it on the text message? Right. I can be people people too. It really can't. If you don't believe me folks, go to lennybot. Is that the lennybot.com lennybot.com if you don't think I can be people people, go spit. People spend hours on Lenny Bot, don't they? Yeah. And the best part is you could talk to. Talk to Lenny Bot with voice. There's a voice feature that sounds exactly like me. It's unbelievable. Yeah. So. And. And one a meta reason to go use Moneybot. Go in with a learning. A learning mind. Don't go in biased. You will find that AI can be people. People people spend hours our best. Who are our best therapists today as we record this chat? GPT is our best. Best therapist on planet Earth. It's a people person. I mean it sounds silly, but if. If that is your best defense in sales that you're a people person. You, you're the. The sands are. The sands are sinking beneath you right now. It's. It's not enough of a skill. It's. People person is great. When people buy enterprise software that's going to take two years to roll out and they have no idea how it works. And it's a hope and a prayer. When you expect the agent to work during the pilot before the big check comes. People person is insufficient. Terrific talk. Tell me the person that's going to launch my agent, train it and get into production for me before I even pay you. It was. You know, it is. This is the dream, Lenny. This is maybe this is one of the biggest changes of all. When I talk with Marc Benioff and Salesforce is the biggest. Right.
