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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: SaaS providers discussing blacklisting Parler from basic cloud software
“There's a group of SaaS companies that are talking about de-platforming Parler as well from just using ordinary software as a service and other sites like it.”
David Sacks Jan 11, 2021 ▶ 1:16:22 E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
Dec 11, 2021 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
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, …”
David Sacks Dec 11, 2021 ▶ 27:26 E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
Jun 30, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sacks: High-growth SaaS companies trade at 8x NTM revenue
“If you're a high growth company, which starts at 40%, you're trading at about eight times the next 12 months revenue.”
David Sacks Jun 30, 2022 ▶ 36:38 E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
Jul 22, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
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…”
David Sacks Jul 22, 2022 ▶ 1:24:12 E88: First principle politics, China chaos & outlook, state of private/public markets & more
Feb 4, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
David Sacks Feb 4, 2023 ▶ 16:06 E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
Nov 16, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Calacanis: Private SaaS secondary market discounts fell from 70-90% to 20-30%
“The discount was last year, I kid you not, 70, 80, 90% off the last round for SaaS companies, and this year it's 20. We're 30.”
Jason Calacanis Nov 16, 2024 ▶ 12:05 Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
Feb 7, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
David Sacks Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 22:00 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
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