Software Spend

topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes

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8 statements about Software Spend, every show

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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.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 33:38 $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
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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.”
Wade Foster Mar 9, 2026 ▶ 6:45 #2299 Zapier is using AI to sell to AI
SAASTR Assertion Supported
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.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 2, 2026 ▶ 24:32 AI + B2B in 2026: Find the Tailwinds or Get Left Behind | Jason Lemkin
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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…”
Marc Andrusko Dec 22, 2025 ▶ 0:50 How AI Agents Will Transform in 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
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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.”
Jesse Zhang Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 21:44 20VC: Why 90% of Founders Build Startups Wrong | Why AI Growth Rates are Sustainable & Remote Work is BS and the AI Talent War | Competing with Brett Taylor and Sierra: Who Wins the Customer Service War with Jesse Zhang, Decagon
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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…”
Elad Gil Jul 18, 2024 ▶ 7:25 No Priors Ep. 72 | With Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
Small SaaS buyers increase spending faster than enterprises in strong markets
“When markets are good, buyers are smaller buyers, which are more volatile, perform better.”
Brad van Leeuwen May 23, 2024 ▶ 9:41 How to 3x your revenue with 3 simple pricing changes
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Software spend per employee hit an all-time high in Q2 2021
“We saw dips in software spend immediately following COVID, and now in Q two, we just surpassed the highest software spend per employee that we've seen at G two to date.”
Amanda Malko Dec 1, 2021 ▶ 1:28 The State of Software Buying From SMB to Enterprise with G2's CMO, Amanda Malko

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