Software Spend
topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
Mixergy
No Priors
the Official SaaStr Podcast
Top Founders
the a16z Podcast
20VC
8 statements about Software Spend, every show
Lemkin: Global Software Spend Growth Is Accelerating to 15%
“That's going from 12.8% growth in all software spend last year, which was high. To 15% growth this year. It is accelerating.”
Wade Foster: Software accounts for a single-digit percentage of company spend
“It's minimal. You know, it's like a single digit percentage. It's so small compared to like headcount.”
Gartner: Software Spend Growth Projected to Reaccelerate to 15.2% in 2026
“This is, and if they're predicting it's going to reaccelerate to 15.2 for software, 9.8% overall for it.”
Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend
“The opportunity we're attacking used to be the 300 to four hundred billion dollars of software spend annually in the world. Now what we're excited about is the 13 trillion dollars of labor spend that exists in the U.S. Alone. It's made the market opportunity o…”
Zhang: Enterprise human labor budgets are 10x larger than software spend
“Human labor is generally like an order of magnitude larger than software spend, like 10 X or more.”
Gil: AI-transformable services headcount is $5T compared to $500B software spend
“You know software spend in the US is something like half trillion dollars a year. There's probably five trillion in headcount costs for services industries that could be transformed by AI, you know, things like legal or accounting or, you know, you name it, sa…”