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
Aug 6, 2021 positive
Oct 30, 2021 bullish
Mar 26, 2022 positive
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. …”
Jun 7, 2022 bearish
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 …”
Dec 3, 2022 bearish
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…”
Feb 24, 2023 bullish
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.”
Sep 22, 2023
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…”
Feb 9, 2024 neutral
Jul 23, 2024 bearish
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 …”
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
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…”
Feb 7, 2026 neutral
Aug 7, 2026 bearish