SaaS Software

topic on 11 shows · 13 statements across 13 episodes

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13 statements about SaaS Software, every show

Kedrosky: Enterprises buy SaaS for liability and vendor accountability, not innovation
“There's a deep misunderstanding about why companies buy software. It's not because they think service now or Salesforce or whoever is somehow, you know, bold innovators that could not be replaced. No, it's because they have a problem. They don't want to build …”
Paul Kedrosky Aug 12, 2026 ▶ 32:55 Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tailor-made AI software will disrupt the off-the-shelf enterprise SaaS stack
“I think we are going to get into the era now where the telemade trousers can be cheaper and faster than readymade. So telemade software, right, can be, is cheaper and faster to deploy actually. And that's a big step forward. I think the entire enterprise stack…”
Surajit Chatterjee May 11, 2026 ▶ 23:49 Coinbase's ex-CPO bet on AI agents before ChatGPT—now he's closing 7-figure Fortune 500 deals. | ... · PMF Show
Ramaswamy: Bolting AI features onto existing SaaS is not a winning strategy
“AI as a bolt-on to SaaS software does not feel like a winning strategy.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 33:59 Who’s Winning The AI Race? + Software’s Future — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
MASTERS OF SCALE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: AI coding will decentralize SaaS into niche local applications
“As much as I love Silicon Valley, we tend to flatten the world. We just like build one size fit all. And that, that means like, you know, SaaS software tends to have all these buttons and configuration just to fit every use case. But instead, we're going to ex…”
Amjad Masad Jan 31, 2026 ▶ 28:02 How vibe coding changes who gets to build (Replit CEO Amajad Masad & Reid Hoffman) | Possible
20VC Insight
O'Driscoll: SaaS silos existed because human roles were siloed
“On a lot of these processes, the reason you have these separate siloed companies is the humans were siloed. There was a sales person and a marketing person, but if the AI is doing everything, let's just take the customer journey. You can have a single AI agent…”
Rory O'Driscoll Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 38:10 Will Cursor Kill Figma? Lightspeed Raises $9B & OpenAI’s $1B from Disney & #1 App in App Store · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lambert: Chinese companies with $1B+ valuations routinely pirate SaaS software
“Mediumly large, like billion dollar plus valuation companies in China will just like pirate SaaS software.”
Nathan Lambert Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 18:47 Open Source AI Strikes Back — Inside Ai2’s OLMo 3 ‘Thinking"
Y COMBINATOR Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: Traditional SaaS application software value will drop to near zero
“My prediction is that all application software will go to zero. In other words, software will be dirt cheap, that no one will be making money on the traditional type of SaaS software.”
Amjad Masad Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 15:56 The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
BIG TECHNOLOGY Disclosure
Replit HR Employee Vibe-Coded Custom Software in Three Days, Saving $30K
“So she went into Replit and built it, Vibe coded it in three days. And so that meant that we have a system that exactly fits our use case. And that also meant that we're not paying 10, 20, 30,000 dollars a year for a piece of SaaS software.”
Amjad Masad Aug 11, 2025 ▶ 9:33 Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
BIGDEAL Opinion
Masad: AI Replicas of $10K+ SaaS Tools Cost Literally $5
“You know, a lot of companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for software. You can generate a replica for five dollars, literally.”
Amjad Masad Jul 30, 2025 ▶ 32:34 AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO of @replit)
a16z Insight
Appenzeller: Building AI agents architecturally mirrors traditional SaaS software
“And I personally think that architecturally There really is no difference between your typical SaaS software today and Agent in terms of how you build it, right?”
Guido Appenzeller May 2, 2025 ▶ 26:07 What Is an AI Agent?
Gil: Capturing 10% of services headcount recreates the entire enterprise software market
“If you say take a 10% cut, And transform employee headcount costs into SaaS software, you're back to half a trillion, and you've recreated the entire enterprise software market cap.”
Elad Gil Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 34:22 Secrets Of Investing Early – Lessons From A Billion-Dollar Investor · Joe Lonsdale
Dixon: Tech workers lack mission drive in SaaS compared to Web3
“This is in no way to diminish other categories, but I just don't think people feel mission-driven with respect to SaaS software, as an example, or databases. I think those are important categories, just so you know, and our firm invests in them. They provide r…”
Chris Dixon Jun 27, 2022 ▶ 42:33 Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
Schroeder: Studio infrastructure advantages faded with the rise of off-the-shelf tools
“It was also back in a time where you had to build everything from scratch, whereas now there's so much off the self stuff, it doesn't have the same advantage.”
Will Schroeder Aug 19, 2020 ▶ 47:34 How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

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