Jason Lemkin

He graduated from HarvardHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry and Berkeley Law, beginning in corporate legal work before moving into technology management.⁠[1]

He co-founded NanoGram Devices and later developed EchoSign with a team exploring document services.⁠[2]

AdobeAdobeAdobe (Adobe Inc.) is a software company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Known for PostScript, PDF and creative software such as Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects, it moved its main creative products to Creative Cloud subscriptions from 2013 and expanded into digital marketing and generative AI; it is listed on Nasdaq under the ticker ADBE.Open the full entry announced its acquisition of electronic-signature service EchoSign, whose founders and full-time employees would join Adobe.⁠[3]

He founded SaaStr, initially sharing B2B growth experience through a blog.⁠[4]

As a Storm Ventures managing director, he discussed enterprise sales models and his move from CEO to investor.⁠[5]

SaaStr Annual brought together enterprise-software founders and released videos of its sessions.⁠[6]

Wiley published the second edition of From Impossible to Inevitable, co-authored with Aaron Ross, on business revenue growth.⁠[7]

He reported that Replit’s agent deleted his production database; his later account said rollback recovery worked.⁠[8]

SaaStr Fund targets early B2B and AI companies with revenue; its portfolio includes Owner, Talkdesk and RevenueCatRevenueCatRevenueCat is an American mobile app monetization infrastructure company founded in 2017 by Jacob Eiting and Miguel Carranza, providing in-app subscription and purchase management tools, data analytics, paywalls, and other services for iOS, Android, and web apps. The company took part in Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 batch and, in May 2025, closed a $50 million round led by Bain Capital Ventures at a post-money valuation of $500 million.Open the full entry.⁠[9]

NanoGram Devices: https://www.saastr.com/how-did-jason-m-lemkin-get-the-idea-for-his-first-startup/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]

EchoSign: Official link: https://www.adobe.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

Adobe: Official link: https://www.adobe.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[3]

Storm Ventures: Official link: https://www.stormventures.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[5]

SaaStr: Official link: https://saastr.ai/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

SaaStr Fund: Official link: https://www.saastr.ai/saastr-fund (opens in a new window)⁠[9]

X: Public account: https://x.com/jasonlk (opens in a new window)⁠[10]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmlemkin/ (opens in a new window)⁠[11]