SaaS

14 statements across 13 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 27, 2021 by David Sacks · across every show →

Everything said about SaaS, oldest first

Mar 27, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
David Sacks states he is exclusively focusing his venture investments on SaaS
“So that's what, I mean, so I've just decided to stop trying to find New ideas and just, I mean, a new the, like a new thesis and just keep investing in this. That's why I'm kind of all in on, on SAS right now.”
David Sacks Mar 27, 2021 ▶ 1:01:47 E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
Aug 6, 2021 positive
Opinion
David Sacks: SaaS and marketplaces are the best internet businesses to build
“Along with SaaS, marketplaces are the best kind of internet businesses to create.”
David Sacks Aug 6, 2021 ▶ 13:36 E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
Oct 30, 2021 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: 100x ARR is the rule of thumb for early-stage SaaS
“I would say a hundred times, I'd say a hundred times ARR is sort of the rule of thumb right now.”
David Sacks Oct 30, 2021 ▶ 52:47 E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
Mar 26, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Sacks: Craft Ventures avoids capital-intensive physical startups in favor of SaaS
“I think part of what's going on with the companies you mentioned is that they're physical world companies. They are very capital intensive. They burn a lot of money. They're operationally intensive. I have sort of sour, I soured on those businesses years ago. …”
David Sacks Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 22:12 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
Jun 7, 2022 bearish
Insight
Chamath: Single-category SaaS companies capped at single-digit billion valuations
“Outside of productivity tools, though there's not a single company that can stay in one category and become really big. What does that mean? There's not a single public company that doesn't have now an entire strategy that says we sell at SMB, mid-market, and …”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 7, 2022 ▶ 41:04 #AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
Dec 3, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Palihapitiya: SaaS will gradually be replaced by Models as a Service
“The first is that I think we're going to replace SaaS with what I call mass, which is models as a service. And so, you know, a lot of what software will be, particularly in the enterprise, will get replaced with A single use model that allows you to solve a fu…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 1:21:44 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Feb 24, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: AI will impact SaaS like mobile impacted Web 1.0
“I think that this AI revolution is going to do for SAS what mobile did for, you know, a lot of the web one point O companies. Where, like, for a lot of these Web One companies, they were either disrupted by mobile or they were turbocharged by mobile.”
David Sacks Feb 24, 2023 ▶ 43:13 E117: Did Stripe miss its window? Plus: VC market update, AI comes for SaaS, Trump's savvy move
Sep 22, 2023
Insight
Sacks: SaaS startup ideas come from unbundling complex Excel spreadsheets
“I tweeted many years ago that the way I saw Excel was the long tail of use cases that hadn't moved into a dedicated SaaS app yet. And that the way that if you want it to be a SaaS founder, you're trying to come up with ideas, find some really complicated Excel…”
David Sacks Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 1:03:12 E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
Feb 9, 2024 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: Software adoption won't slow down, but SaaS price compression will rise
“And that's what's going to cause perhaps price compression and more competition than has been the case. But I don't think that the adoption of software is going to slow down.”
David Friedberg Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 40:29 E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
Jul 23, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: AI custom software will become standard, blowing up SaaS model
“I think that the tooling and the capabilities to enable the enterprise to write their own custom workplace productivity tools and their own custom workplace software, whether that's customer facing or internal facing, Really becomes kind of the standard maybe …”
David Friedberg Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 12:41 The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: SaaS will absorb the services economy within a couple of years
“SaaS basically takes over the services economy. And if you look at the market cap and the revenue and profit generated by services businesses, and you assume that they now go to 10 to a hundred X larger, and they're all going to accrue to software. I think tha…”
David Friedberg Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 32:21 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
Feb 7, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Friedberg: SaaS will transition from per-seat to value-based pricing
“I think that a lot of what we call SaaS today, and a lot of what we call software today will start to get priced on a value based pricing model, instead of a per seat pricing model.”
David Friedberg Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 31:49 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
Aug 7, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Sacks: No-code software is the most disrupted SaaS category
“No code has to be the most impacted, the most disrupted area of SaaS right now, because, I mean, what is Claude Code really good at? I mean, that's the ultimate no code tool.”
David Sacks Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 59:26 Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
Aug 29, 2026 neutral
Insight
Sacks: SaaS companies must prioritize agent interfaces over user interfaces
“I think in the past, the way that most SaaS Products thought they spent a lot of time on their user interface, and now they really got to think about the agent interface, not just user interface.”
David Sacks Aug 29, 2026 ▶ 22:27 Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
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