SaaS
8 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2021 by Andrew Gazdecki · across every show →
Everything said about SaaS, oldest first
Jul 23, 2021 bullish
Future small business entrepreneurs will launch niche SaaS instead of traditional services
“I think the future of the small business economy is going to be online, digital, and profitable. People who used to want to start like a restaurant or like a plumbing business or something like that, those young entrepreneurs are going to be looking to start a…”
Dec 9, 2021 bearish
Parr: Micro-SaaS Products Targeting Creators Will Fail 99 Percent Of The Time
“A lot of people are creating like little pieces of software that they hope to sell for five, 10, 15 dollars a month.
Right.
Like two creators.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're two creators.
And I'm like, I don't, I wouldn't do that.
I think that those businesses nine out of …”
Jan 12, 2022
Walling: 20% to 25% of Bootstrapped SaaS Startups Lack Technical Founders
“We actually asked, so we do a state of independent SAS survey, and we put out a report, like an industry report, and we asked the question, Do you have at least one technical founder? Right? Or, you know, and yes or no, right? And the number of SaaS companies,…”
Jan 12, 2022 positive
Jan 12, 2022
Walling: First-Time Non-Technical Founders Should Build Plugins Before Full SaaS
“If you're, if you are non-technical and you've never started a startup before, I would say don't build a SaaS app. It's too hard. Like go, I have this thing called the stair-step approach to bootstrapping, which is like start small with like a WordPress plugin…”
Jan 12, 2022
Walling: 100x pricing when enterprise buyers demand redlines and SSO
“The moment someone approaches you, a potential customer, and says, Cool. We like your software. We need to redline your terms of service, or we need to invoice with POs, or we need single sign-on, or we need a Salesforce integration, or we need, there's this w…”
Mar 20, 2024 bearish
Jason Fried: SaaS Subscriptions Overcharge Users for Marginal Software Updates
“Software. I know it's improving, but it's improving around the marginal edges. You already have 90% of it on day one when you bought the damn thing. And so you're paying over and over and over and over for essentially the same thing. And at some point, if you'…”
Sep 12, 2025 positive
Parr: Early cable television was the original SaaS business model
“And a lot of it happened in the eighties, the late seventies and the early eighties when cable was getting popular. And it was sort of like the first version of a SaaS business. You know, it was recurring revenue, huge TAM kind of weird and unknown.”