SaaS Backwards - Reverse Engineering SaaS Success
SaaS Backwards - Reverse Engineering SaaS Success
Ken Lempit
Ep. 199 - What AI Taught One Founder About the Future of SaaS
27 minutes Posted Jun 5, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
Podcast intro and stakes
Meet Ivan and Datasaur
Why enterprise AI hits limits
Private LLMs and workflows
Datasaur origins in 2018
ChatGPT shock and churn
Pivot lessons and open source
Sponsor break
GTM collapse and survival revenue
Next wave enterprise agents
Founder advice and measurement
Wrap up and contact info
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Send us Fan Mail Guest: Ivan Lee, Founder & CEO of Datasaur We’re looking at what happens when AI changes the market faster than the old SaaS playbook can keep up. Ivan Lee, founder and CEO of Datasaur, joins SaaS Backwards to share how his company navigated one of the most dramatic shifts in enterprise AI. Datasaur started as a data annotation platform before ChatGPT changed customer priorities, paused AI roadmaps, and forced the company to rethink its product, GTM strategy, and business...