SaaS

11 statements across 10 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Jun 8, 2018 by Raj De Datta · across every show →

Everything said about SaaS, oldest first

Jun 8, 2018
Insight
De Datta: SaaS plus data science demands a new customer success model
“But today, because this is a handshake between our SaaS environment and the customer's data, that, that handshake requires a completely different, ah, model for customer success and support. Because what we have learned in being a data science plus SaaS compan…”
Raj De Datta Jun 8, 2018 ▶ 7:41 10 Lessons from Building Data Driven Software // Raj De Datta, BloomReach (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Mar 19, 2019 negative
Opinion
Open-source software distribution is being superseded by SaaS models
“I almost feel like open source is just being superseded by any software as a service, and what I mean by that is the following. It's like, as soon as you host something as a service, people don't seem to ask so much about open source, right?”
Martin Casado Mar 19, 2019 ▶ 20:00 Fireside Chat: Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Sep 17, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sarah Guo: SaaS market is in early innings of market cap creation
“I think we're just gonna see a lot of market cap creation, so I fundamentally think we're, like, in the early innings of that.”
Sarah Guo Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 5:54 Fireside Chat: Sarah Guo, General Partner at Greylock (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 29, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Traynor: AI will accelerate the death of seat-based SaaS pricing
“I do think separate to all this, SaaS is going to be a bit more usage-based and metered anyway. I think the days of, like, seats above all are starting to fade away. AI is going to accelerate it, but I think generally speaking, people are kind of realizing tha…”
Des Traynor Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 42:20 How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
Feb 29, 2024
Insight
Traynor: The era of SaaS is an era of "right-click view source"
“The era of SaaS is an era of like right click view source. You know, ultimately like if there's a single thing you've done, other people can do it. The job is to build a brand around having the best product. And to do that, you often, you have to have the fres…”
Des Traynor Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 22:02 How Intercom transitioned to being AI-first | Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Intercom
Nov 8, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
SaaS will not die, but evolve into wrappers around AI intelligence
“We think that SAS It's not going to be dead. We think that SAS is just going to have to evolve dramatically. And if you think of SAS being largely a wrapper around a database, and you could argue that's what Salesforce is, you know, a lot of, like, workflow an…”
Matt Turck Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 1:01:23 Superintelligence, Bubbles And Big Bets: AI Investing in 2024 | Matt Turck & Aman Kabeer, FirstMark
Feb 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: Long-tail SaaS products will disappear due to AI software generation
“As, you know, non-professional software engineers are able to build their own software I think that the demand for the, you know, plethora of SaaS that we have today will also go down, and that will reduce, because you'll be able to generate software on the fl…”
Amjad Masad Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 1:07:16 The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
Jun 5, 2025
Insight
Gomez: AI agents differ from SaaS by requiring full human organizational context
“I think one thing that's different about agents and AI compared to other SaaS is that usually you're trying to do something that a human is doing in the organization. And To do that, you need the con, you need the same context that human has.”
Aidan Gomez Jun 5, 2025 ▶ 47:36 Inside the Paper That Changed AI Forever - Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez on 2025 Agents
Oct 30, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
SaaS software will eventually be replaced by autonomous AI agents
“At some point, basically, just as desktop software became SaaS, at some point, SaaS will just become an agent because it's no longer really like a human that's It's actually doing everything in the software product, but a software that's running the software p…”
Nathan Benaich Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 51:44 State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue
Mar 19, 2026
Insight
Evans: Most SaaS companies are fundamentally just database wrappers
“Most SaaS companies are database wrappers, where somebody realized that here is this problem, and here is the people who have it, and here is a way of turning it 90 degrees, and this is your insertion point, this is how you build it and take it to market.”
Benedict Evans Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 57:33 Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
Jul 23, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Feldman: AI is causing irreparable damage to the SaaS business model
“I think the business of dashboarding and the business, the AI doesn't the damages doing the SAS is, I think, unreparable. You could ask your AI, build me a tool like Salesforce. 30 seconds later, you have a working tool.”
Andrew Feldman Jul 23, 2026 ▶ 1:10:46 Cerebras CEO: Why GPUs Can't Do Fast Inference
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