E42: SaaS is changing with Yash Chavan

Episode notes

In this episode of the SaaS Operators, we talked to Yash Chavan, the founder and CEO of SARAL. We talked about why the pace of building has fundamentally changed and most SaaS is falling behind.Rishabh shares how his company went from one product to five in five months, why he stopped buying SaaS, and why doing anything manually at his company is a problem.Yash breaks down how Saral went from zero to a one million in 14 months on self-serve SMB, then tore the whole thing down. Tripled prices, went sales led, replaced the entire customer base with sticky mid market revenue. Now they're going multi-product and launching on the Shopify App Store.We talked about why quarterly planning is breaking, what Decagon's fundraise signals about how investors value agentic platforms, and whether AI tools make teams worse or just give them more swings. Jeremiah burned $400 in Replit credits in a week and still needed his own technical skills to ship.