Jason M. LemkinCEO, SaaStr · Co-Founder of SaaStr AI, SaaStr Fund, Adobe Sign

SaaStr Annual 2025 | May 13-15 in SF Bay Area: "It's Next Level"

24 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video with multiple speakers giving testimonial-style reactions to the SaaStr conference. Speakers emphasize the event’s scale and growth ("25 times bigger" than the first year), its entrepreneurial energy and global talent, and personal impact (networking with founders and billionaires; ambition to scale companies into unicorns). The tone is enthusiastic, aspirational, and informal; speakers repeat phrases for emphasis (e.g., “It’s next level,” and “people, all”).

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25 times bigger.

Share 12,500.

I'm here because this is where the cloud meets. This is where the greatest minds in SaaS are this week.
One of the coolest things I think about sastr is that it brings in entrepreneurial energy and talent from all over the world. Sastr is 25 times bigger than it was the first year, which seemed big. The original mission was just to share 12,500.
People, all.
Committed to SaaS under one roof.
I've met about like five billionaires in the last three days. 15, 20, 30 billion dollar companies. It's next level. The impact that Sastro has had on me is just to think much, much bigger. I want to turn my company into a unicorn now.
No one's going to get anything without trying. You don't get anything without trying in this world. And if you're trying to do something that has a ridiculously low chance of success, you got to be pretty f Cking confident.
The topics here, if I wasn't speaking, I would still be here. We always feeling.
Deep inside that we're onto something.
You get there and you realize like, there's so much more to go. How do I keep growing?
People who give up are at saster. They're not investing in the next step.