software companies

6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 29, 2024 by Chris Power · across every show →

Everything said about software companies, oldest first

Mar 29, 2024 negative
Insight
Power: Deep tech startups cannot pivot rapidly like software companies
“Cause the other thing about deep tech is there is no iteration, honestly. Software companies, you can raise a couple million bucks, have an idea, test an idea, ship something new in four weeks. Whoops. Customer base sucks. Pivot, pivot, pivot, pivot, pivot. Th…”
Chris Power Mar 29, 2024 ▶ 37:10 Get Tesla Big | Chris Power, Hadrian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Jun 28, 2024 bearish
Assertion Supported
Suster says 20-percent growth software startups currently trade at 4x revenue
“But the twenty-year average is six X. And right now, if you're growing at 20%, you're probably trading at Forex.”
Mark Suster Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 40:56 Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Public software multiples have normalized to roughly 6.5x forward revenue
“I publish our internal software benchmark and you see forward revenue on a software company six and a half times. That's about where it was for the last I don't know before five years ago, the last decade. So, you know, five years back, it's the 10 year averag…”
Alex Kolicich Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 7:39 Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 18, 2025 positive
Insight
Modern B2B software companies must present themselves like consumer brands
“The way software companies need to present themselves today is as a consumer business because they're not, like, people aren't Doing, like, outreach sales one-to-one in the same ways that they were, and there's so much more competition.”
Sophia Amoruso Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 15:14 Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Dec 5, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Bhargava: AI roll-ups can grow faster with higher margins than software
“In a 16 trillion dollar services industry, we could have companies growing faster than software companies and at higher margin than software companies. And so this pool of one trillion that VC has been fishing in has actually expanded now, maybe not to the ful…”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 36:44 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 31, 2026 negative
Opinion
O'Shea: Software companies are homogenous compared to varied factory workplaces
“You can go into software companies and everyone kind of looks the same, but everybody at these manufacturing and factory jobs, they all have a role and they're all different.”
Molly O'Shea Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 11:00 Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory
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