SaaS is dead. Finished.
I vibe coded my very own newsletter platform in 4 minutes.
My delivery rate went to zero & the paywall breaks daily.
But I’ve saved $48 dollars & now just have to allocate all of my time to maintaining this.
Checkmate.
New piece: ServiceNow down 50% from highs.
CEO buying $23M in personal shares.
Entire C-suite cancelled selling plans.
Everyone says SaaS is cooked.
They're wrong about this one.
$NOW
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@Mindset4Money_X It improves high quality SaaS with a lot of context. People that have never worked at a large SaaS business dramatically overestimated how much of the value to customers is shipping code.
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Very interesting letter from Chuck Akre on the recent sell-off in the SaaS segment.
"If a super powerful and easy-to-use shovel was developed, more people might dig for treasure in their backyard.
The biggest beneficiaries, however, would be real miners with real mines.
We believe AI is a similar proposition for already-advantaged and responsive software businesses."
$CSU $ADBE $NOW $CRM $PANW $CRWD
on the “software is dead” narrative:
my intuition is that ai makes strong software companies stronger and weak software companies weaker. this is because the moat of strong software companies was never software, but rather distribution, proprietary data, workflow integration, enterprise lockin, network effects, trust and compliance, etc. whereas the moat of weak software companies was just… software.
example of strong companies: msft