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
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…”
Jun 28, 2024 bearish
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
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…”
Aug 18, 2025 positive
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.”
Dec 5, 2025 bullish
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…”