The 7investing Podcast

In a decade since Marc Andreessen’s famous Wall Street Journal op-ed “Software is eating the world,” much has indeed transpired. The broad shift in technology and our economy towards software has taken place. Today, software is a critical component of almost every business, almost to the point where we can think of every business as a software business! Enterprise software, and in particular software as a service (SaaS), has become a key peg in this digital transformation journey. There are many established large enterprise software companies. Hundreds more are perhaps founded each year. What drives this interest in enterprise software? What’s the state of the union when it comes to SaaS technologies and their adoption? How are established companies and upstarts coexisting in this highly dynamic area? What is at the absolute forefront of enterprise software? To help us answer these questions, we sat down with Frank Wang, Engineering Director at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) Frank is an entrepreneur with hands-on experience creating software solutions, growing engineering teams, and developing go-to-market strategies. He’s seen the evolution of SaaS up close for more than a decade, between his time at startups and software behemoths. In this interview with 7investing, Frank gives us his impression of where SaaS is in the adoption curve and delves into the pace of innovation at smaller companies versus established corporations. We discuss what areas are at the forefront of software right now and discuss some areas Frank finds exciting outside of software. We finish up with a discussion of 3 stocks Frank likes right now and why. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

Telemedicine has exploded during the pandemic. That makes sense since it was risky to go to a doctor’s office and that’s not something people ever enjoyed doing. What will telemedicine look like in the years to come? Dana Abramovitz joins Dan Kline to share her thoughts. Then, Anirban Mahanti joins us to break down what’s happening in the software as a service (SAAS) space. These companies have been struggling but that does not mean that many of these aren’t good long-term investments. Companies Mentioned  Teladoc (NYSE:TDOC)  CVS (NYSE:CVS)  Target (NYSE:TGT)  Cigna (NYSE:CI)  Slack (NYSE:WORK)  Salesforce (NYSE:CRM)  Disney (NYSE:DIS)  Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

This month, our 7investing team set our sights overseas.   China and Southeast Asia are lands of opportunity for investors. But what should we know about the region's consumers, regulations, and general business culture. And how is that different than other parts of the world?   To help us answer these questions, we've brought in an investing expert with a first-hand look at this region.  Chin Hui Leong is the Head of Investing at Singapore-based The Smart Investor (and also a former teammate of both Simon and Anirban). The Smart Investor provides stock commentary and market coverage for Singapore and several other parts of the world.  Chin has a direct perspective into Southeast Asian businesses and how they differ from other parts of the world.  In this exclusive interview with 7investing, Chin speaks with 7investing lead advisors Simon Erickson and Anirban Mahanti about the Southeast Asian consumer and how he/she is embracing e-commerce and adopting digital payments. The three also discuss the relationship between tech companies and the Chinese government and the mentality of Southeast Asian business leaders.    Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

The market has been volatile pretty much throughout the entire pandemic. As we start to put the past 15 or so months behind us, will that change? We’ll look at the path to recovery for growth stocks, whether the pandemic has created any permanent behavioral changes, and we’ll discuss what conventional wisdom is getting wrong. Companies Mentioned Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) AT&T (NYSE:T) Palantir Technologies (NYSE:PLTR) C3.AI (NYSE:AI) Discovery Communications (NASDAQ:DISCA) Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

There's a lot of technology buzzwords flying around in the financial media these days. "Digital transformation", "cloud computing", "edge computing", and "artificial intelligence" are making their way into plenty of headlines and also into the conversations of more and more cocktail parties. The world is gaining a better understanding of what several cutting-edge trends actually mean.   But even more important than understanding them is following how these disruptive new technologies are actually being implemented. Businesses of all sizes are moving their workflows to the cloud service providers like Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) Web Services and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) Cloud Platform. They're hiring data scientists to set up machine learning environments, and they're assembling teams of hundreds or thousands of engineers to undertake massive new projects. There are a lot of dollars at stake as the digital transformation more firmly takes root within the enterprise.   What will all of this mean for investors? Are there ways to capitalize on the biggest trends taking shape in the tech world? To help us answer these questions, we've brought in an expert who is at the forefront of innovation. Ben Book is the co-founder and CEO of GigaOm, who is helping IT decision makers tackle their most complex technical challenges. GigaOm is bringing the executives of progressive companies up-to-speed about emerging technologies and then helping to implement them across their organizations. In this exclusive interview with 7investing, Ben digs deep into what's really going on in today's biggest trends. He explains what the digital transformation is really all about and why we're still just "in the second or third inning." He describes how cloud computing is allowing companies to simplify their IT operations and how machine learning is now being used for more customized applications. Previously a healthcare consultant, Ben also sheds some insight on where tech companies have the greatest chances of succeeding in health care.   Finally, Simon asks Ben to share several other trends he's excited about right now.   Publicly-traded companies mentioned in this interview include Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOGL), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Datadog (Nasdaq: DDOG), Disney (NYSE: DIS), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and Snowflake (Nasdaq: SNOW), and Zoom Video Communications (Nasdaq: ZM). 7investing's advisors or its guests may have positions in the companies mentioned.

The market has not been kind to most tech stocks over the past few weeks. That’s hard to watch in the short-term, but our long-term convictions have not changed. Good companies can have major negative moves in their share price in the short-term while still being huge winners in the long-term. Simon Erickson and Maxx Chatsko join Dan Kline to talk about market volatility, sector rotation, and why we consider this a buying opportunity on Wednesday’s 7investing Now. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

In this conversation, 7investing Lead Advisor Matthew Cochrane sits down with Marcelo Lima, the founder and managing partner of Heller House. On the Heller House's website, it states, "As acolytes of Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett, we are standing on the shoulders of giants and adapting to a world permeated by software, network effects and zero marginal costs." Lima describes his evolution from a Warren Buffett-type value investor to an investor who instead seeks out the world's most innovative companies. He even wonders if starting as a Buffett investor hindered him early on in his investment career because he believed Buffett that new technology was too hard to understand. When studying new technologies, Lima says he approaches everything like he's a student. That can mean purchasing 900-page textbooks on the microbiology of cells or attending developer conferences and trying out new software products.  A few years ago, when studying Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) he toured one of its fulfillment centers. This experience helped him appreciate how advances in robotics would help the e-commerce giant become even more efficient at delivery and logistics. Lima also discusses the size and valuations of tech giants. He believes the total addressable markets more than justifies some of today's larger market caps but believes valuation must always be carefully weighed with a company's optionality and growth. Along the way, Lima and Cochrane also discuss the possibility of Miami as the next great tech hub, why Mark Zuckerberg is perennially underrated, and whether virtual and augmented reality is an inevitable platform.

Walmart has agreed to acquire telemedicine provider MeMD which will expand the company’s healthcare efforts beyond its own employees. It’s pretty clear that Americans want something different in healthcare but it’s a very crowded space and the current healthcare system has some massive advantages. Walmart does, however, have over 4,000 pharmacies and buying an established player in the telemedicine space could accelerate its efforts. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

It was a rough day for a number of tech stocks yesterday. There were double-digit drops and as investors, it’s easy to get spooked by that. We’ll look at the difference between volatility and risk as well as why big drops are sometimes a feature and not a bug on the Friday edition of 7investing Now. We know it’s scary and the 7investing team is here for you! Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing

It has been a busy few days for the United States as the pandemic-related news has been fast and furious. Pfizer reported better-than-expected profits and a lot of its revenue has come from the COVID-19 vaccine. Maxx Chatsko joins Dan Kline to talk about that, President Joe Biden’s plan to have 70% of American adults get at least one vaccine shot by July, the changing landscape for retail and restaurants, and T-Mobile earnings. Welcome to 7investing. We are here to empower you to invest in your future! We publish our 7 best ideas in the stock market to our subscribers for just $49 per month or $399 per year. Start your journey toward's financial independence: https://www.7investing.com/subscribe Stop by our website to level-up your investing education:  https://www.7investing.com Follow us on Social Media ► https://www.facebook.com/7investing/ ► https://twitter.com/7investing ► https://instagram.com/7investing