software companies
8 statements across 8 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about software companies, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Mar 13, 2024 negative
Andreessen: Software companies are extremely vulnerable to physical code theft
“It's actually very easy to steal software code from a company. You hire the janitorial staff to stick a USB stick into a machine at three in the morning. So like, you know, software companies are like very easily penetrated.”
May 9, 2024 bullish
Andreessen: Software startup costs will rise due to the Jevons Paradox
“And so the paradox here would be, yes, the cost of developing any given piece of software falls, but the re, the reaction to that is a massive surge of demand for software capabilities. And so the result of that actually is, although it even, it looks like sta…”
Aug 23, 2025 neutral
Horowitz: Software market will never consolidate into a few dominant companies
“There never eventually became a small number of software companies, despite what Larry Ellison and all those guys said, that there were only going to be three software companies and all that thing. Because it's kind of like, it'd be like there's only going to …”
Jan 19, 2026
Jan 26, 2026 neutral
Mar 27, 2026 bearish
Caldwell: Pure-play SaaS companies struggle to penetrate the mining sector
“Software companies that sell to mining companies have a very, very hard time penetrating the sector because the issue is the, like the rate of uptake of software and of technology is actually gated by what would be the customers if you were a pure play SaaS co…”
May 29, 2026 bearish
George: All Mag Seven and public software stocks grow sub-30%
“If you exclude the data center supply chain stuff right now, there are very few companies that are growing fast that are available for people to buy in the public markets. You know, the mag seven are all growing sub 30% at this point. You know all the software…”