SaaS companies
7 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2021 by David Sacks · across every show →
Everything said about SaaS companies, oldest first
Jan 11, 2021 negative
Dec 11, 2021 bearish
David Sacks notes growth stocks and SaaS companies dropped 30% since November.
“So, what we've seen over the past four or five weeks, about the first week in November, most, the market basically peaked, and at least growth stocks did, and SaaS companies did. If you look, kind of, November eighth was sort of the beginning of the downturn, …”
Jun 30, 2022 neutral
Jul 22, 2022 neutral
Sacks: High-growth private SaaS startups are landing deals at 20x ARR
“Well, what we're seeing right now is that pretty good SaaS companies that are growing, you know, maybe on a trailing basis, they grew three X and, you know, prospectively they're growing, call it two and a half X. They're trading right now, not trading, but ba…”
Feb 4, 2023 bearish
Sacks: Tech valuations will not return to 2021 peak SaaS multiples
“And that's why we're never going back to the bubble of 20, 21, where SaaS companies were trading at a hundred times ARR. We're going to go back to an environment more like a more normal one where valuations are more like the 2017 valuation, something like that…”
Nov 16, 2024 positive
Feb 7, 2026 bearish
Sacks: SaaS companies will become legacy infrastructure under a new AI layer
“So I think the risk for the SaaS companies, it's not that they get replaced, although that'll happen to some degree, but it's that they become an old layer of the stack that now there's a new layer that gets built on top of. I guess it becomes more legacy infr…”