SaaS Platforms
topic on 7 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
We Live to Build 
the Neon Show 
No Priors 
Top Founders 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
7 statements about SaaS Platforms, every show
Gaybrick: Stripe SaaS Platform Customer Cohort Grew 103% Year-over-Year
“The new SaaS platform cohort is a 103% larger than in 26 than it was in 25.”
Narkar: SaaS Platforms With Cross-Platform Data Will Win in AI
“I think the SaaS platforms that will win with AI are the ones that have data across platforms. You know data is really the true winner.”
Jain: Average feature adoption on most SaaS platforms is only 30-40%
“I mean, look at, what is a typical adoption of most SaaS platforms? 30, 40%.”
Huang: Incumbent SaaS platforms will flourish with AI agents, not be disrupted
“People, people say that these SaaS platforms are going to be disrupted. I actually think the opposite. That they're sitting on a gold mine, that, that they're going to be this flourishing of agents that are going to be specialized in Salesforce specialized in,…”
Walling: Every aggressive tech platform was developer-friendly at one point
“A friendly platform is friendly until it's not. And that's really what platform risk is, is when we think about the aggressive platforms that I'll name in, in level eight, they all were friendly at one point.”
Bijapur: Building on existing systems of record carries fatal platform risk
“The problem with building something that plugs into an existing system of record is it, I think the biggest challenge there is it becomes a platform play. Like you're so dependent on the platform that the platform ends up shut locking your feature, then you're…”