Episode 697 | 7 Predictions for SaaS Bootstrappers in 2024

“If I were to guess, I think it's in the 75 to 80% range of companies that we have funded over the past several years have been vertical SaaS.”

“These days, all, almost all of those reasons still apply about it being less competitive, about you don't need to be the best marketer in the world, you just need to be a better marketer than the other folks in your niche.”

“My second prediction, ties back to a company I just named, is that SaaS will continue to grow and it will even pick up space in emerging markets.”

“I think that Twitter might change hands again in 20, 24. That is probably the ultimate prediction.”

“Subscription fatigue will continue to be a thing in B to C, but it will not be a big deal with B to B.”

“That once will not penetrate. It's my prediction. They will not penetrate past the handful of nerdy developers who basically want to manage their own servers.”

“The obvious AI stuff, we're going to be through that this year. And we're going to start to get into novel and surprising integrations with a lot of the tools we use, or novel and surprising new apps that aren't just a thing that, again, is so obvious to build…”

“I don't believe AI is going to take a bunch of developer jobs. I think this is the rising tide that raises all the boats. Unless you're a real developer, and you don't, or you resist AI, or you don't want to use it becomes this tool of augmentation that I thin…”

“My seventh and final prediction for twenty-twenty-four, I have no inside information. I think Stripe's going to finally go public.”

“People don't judge bootstrappers for raising money like they used to. They would call them sellouts and you know, that kind of stuff. And I just don't see that happening.”