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I see a lot of keyboard warriors out there shouting that AI is changing everything about SaaS, that the old rules are dead, that if you're not building AI native, you're already obsolete.
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They're f*ing wrong.
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After building multiple SaaS companies and investing in over 230 more, I can tell you there are fundamentals that haven't changed.
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If you ignore these, no amount of AI is going to save you.
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And one of them, AI is actually making it worse, not better.
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Now I want to be clear, I'm not saying AI doesn't matter.
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It's actually the biggest change to SaaS I've seen in my 20 years of doing this.
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You can build faster, test cheaper, ship more often.
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But those are tools.
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The fundamentals, the stuff that actually determines whether your business survives, those haven't changed.
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The first is you still have to solve a problem people care about.
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AI makes it easy to build solutions, but solutions without painful problems are just toys.
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Problem-solution-fit hasn't gone anywhere, and I'd argue it matters more now than ever.
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If you solve a problem that isn't painful enough for your customers, faster coding doesn't save you.
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In our last batch of companies that we funded through my SaaS accelerator, TinySeed, we reviewed hundreds and hundreds of AI-powered applications.
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And we funded, wait for it, three.
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The difference wasn't the AI, it was whether they'd found a real problem.
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The question hasn't changed.
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Would someone pay for this if it didn't have AI in the H1 or in in the description or anywhere in the code.
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Number two, you still have to talk to customers.
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AI makes it easy to feel like you've done customer research.
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You can scrape Reddit.
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You can summarize the complaints, generate a list of pain points, but that's not research.
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That's homework avoidance.
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Real product sense comes from talking to real people, and there's no shortcut for that.
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AI can analyze feedback at scale.
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It's true, but someone still has to understand the humans.
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You still have to talk to customers, gather feedback, and figure out what to build.
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This is the role of product.
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And AI will not do this for you.
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AI can summarize it, but someone still has to understand the humans, what they're saying, and what they're not saying.
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One of our Tiny Seed founders, Jason Buckingham, was a development manager at Microsoft.
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He wanted to build a SaaS, but he had no idea what to build.
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So he made 70 cold calls, not to validate an idea, but to find one.
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And out of those conversations, he discovered this whole world of senior living placement agents, basically realtors for elderly care, who are running their businesses on spreadsheets and sticky notes.
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With his co-founder, he built Senior Place.
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And because he actually talked to those people, he learned things no AI summary would ever surface.
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Like the fact that his average customer is a woman in her 50s or 60s who is, in her own words, not even acquainted with computers.
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That shaped everything about the product.
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You don't get that from a Reddit scrape.
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You get that from a phone call.
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Number three, you still have to market.
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AI can write your email your ads, your blog posts, it still can't make people care.
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Distribution is still the hard part.
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Marketing and sales are still the hard part and no tool is gonna do this for you.
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AI can help you produce that content.
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It can send outreach.
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I'm receiving dozens of these junky AI generated emails every day.
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It's not going to do distribution for you.
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You still need to think through and find a channel that works.
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You still have to earn attention.
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The founders who win aren't the ones with the best AI tools.
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They're the ones who figured out where their customers hang out and how to reach them.
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If you're thinking about this very topic about how to find a marketing channel that works, check out our recent video about the big five marketing strategies.
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We'll link it up in the description.
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Number four, you still have to understand churn and AI makes it worse.
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AI native companies have the worst retention I've ever seen in SaaS apps.
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I'm seeing 60, 70, 80% annual churn.
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That's not a revolution.
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That's a leaky bucket.
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So this is one where AI isn't just neutral.
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It's actively making things harder.
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It's making them worse for SaaS founders.
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The data is brutal.
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AI-native products have median gross retention around 40% compared to 90 plus percent for traditional B2B SaaS.
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A lot of what's being counted as ARR is really experimental budget, companies trying things out and not committing.
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People aren't leaving because of payment failures, they're leaving because the product didn't stick, it didn't work, it didn't live up to the promise that was made.
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Founders still have to diagnose why customers leave and fix root causes and not mask churn.
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AI doesn't solve churn, and in most cases, it accelerates it.
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These fundamentals aren't complicated, but they can be hard.
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And they're a lot harder if you're trying to figure them out on your own.
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One of the best things I ever did for my entrepreneurial journey was to join a mastermind.
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It's a small group of founders who meet regularly to share wins, talk through challenges, and hold each other accountable.
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And finding the right people is the hard part.
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That's why we started Mastermind Matching at MicroConf.
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We've successfully matched almost 1,800 founders across 64 countries.
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And applications for our next group of masterminds are open now.
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You can go to microconfmasterminds.com to apply.
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All right, so I have one more fundamental, and this one is less to do with technology and more to do with your mindset.
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It's execution over ideas.
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AI has made ideas cheap.
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Execution is still rare.
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This might be the most fundamental lesson in this video.
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These days, everyone can spin up a landing page.
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Anyone can generate code or ship a prototype in a weekend.
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That's not a moat.
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It's a starting line.
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The founders who win aren't the ones who ship fastest.
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They're the ones who stick around long enough to figure it out.
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Persistence and resilience still win.
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Startups will take years.
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I say all the time, think in terms of years, not months.
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And one of the most popular tweets I've sent out in the past few months said, overnight success takes a decade.
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AI might compress some timelines.
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It makes building faster, but it doesn't change the game.
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It just raises the stakes.
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If you're thinking about how to actually build a SaaS in this environment, not just the theory, but the practical reality, I just sat down with Jason Cohen.
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He's built two unicorns, WP Engine and SmartBear.
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We talked about how he would approach building a new SaaS today in the age of AI.
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That conversation is right here.
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Check it out.
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If you found this video helpful, please give it a like and subscribe.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'll see you next time.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה C1 מבוסס על הסרטון “The ‘Old Rules’ of SaaS Still Win”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: Saas, founder, customer, build, fundamental. בסרטון הזה יש 104 משפטים ו-1186 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 6:21. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-187 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. רק 80% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
13 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| churn פועל | /t͡ʃɝn/ | לערבל |
| summarize פועל | /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/ | סיכם |
| diagnose פועל | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | אבחן |
| unicorn שם עצם | /ˈju.nɪ.kɔɹn/ | חַד־קֶרֶן |
| obsolete שם תואר | /ˈɑbsəlit/ | מיושן |
| accelerate פועל | /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/ | האיץ |
| startup שם עצם | /ˈstɑɹtˌʌp/ | סטארטאפ, חברת סטארטאפ |
| prototype שם עצם | /ˈpɹəʊtətaɪp/ | אב טיפוס |
| subscribe פועל | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | נִמְנָה |
| placement שם עצם | /ˈpleɪ̯smənt/ | מיקום |
| median שם עצם | /ˈmiː.di.ən/ | תִּיכוֹן |
| shout פועל | /ʃaʊt/ | צעק, צרח |
| bucket שם עצם | /ˈbʌkɪt/ | דְּלִי |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה |
| check out פועל | בדק |
משפטים שכדאי לחזור עליהם
משפטים קצרים ושלמים מהסרטון שאפשר להשתמש בהם בשיחה יומיומית:
- It's not going to do distribution for you.
- We'll link it up in the description.
- I'll see you next time.
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | haven't changed · I've seen · hasn't gone |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | ones who figured · ones who ship · ones who stick |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | being counted · was made |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-46 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו they're, you're, aren't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: retention /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, spreadsheet /ˈspɹɛd.ʃit/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: accelerator /əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, entrepreneurial /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ.i.əl/, resilience /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/, accelerate /ɪkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪt/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: mastermind /ˈmæs.tɚˌmaɪnd/, validate /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, batch /bæt͡ʃ/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: scrape /skɹeɪp/, summarize /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/, retention /ɹɪˈtɛnʃən/, accelerator /əkˈsɛl.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, compress /ˈkɑmpɹɛs/
- עיצור קולי בסוף מילה — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ בלי להפוך אותם לאטומים: mastermind /ˈmæs.tɚˌmaɪnd/, summarize /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו churn, summarize, diagnose.
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