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126: The SaaS Market Maturity Paradox

Mar 4, 2022
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INSIGHT

SaaS Has Highest Impact At Market Extremes

  • SaaS impact is highest at market entry and at full automation stages.
  • Early SaaS makes previously impossible tasks possible, and late-stage SaaS removes problems entirely by becoming the automation.
ANECDOTE

Fit Panda Example Of Immediate SaaS Impact

  • Arvid recounts building Fit Panda into an underserved space where software immediately changed customers' workflows.
  • Tasks that took weeks and dozens of people became minutes of computer work, showing dramatic early-stage gains.
INSIGHT

The Bearable Stage Reduces Marginal Utility

  • After making impossible things possible, a wave of SaaS makes tasks bearable by digitizing paper processes.
  • This stage increases competition, lowers budgets, and shifts differentiation toward price and execution.
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