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Andrei Serban's avatar

Can you speak more to the part about midmarket/workflow companies/tools in the last paragraph?

The best counterexample I can think of is ServiceNow - which is doing really well despite being a workflow tool (even saw you recommend them the other day on Twitter)

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TechnoIRO's avatar

Pretty sure workflow here is referring to the litany of Airtable/Asana/Coda/Monday/Smartsheet/etc. Most of these do not need to exist.

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Andrei Serban's avatar

Yep - realized after I commented - Arda Capital’s “Ellison’s Gospel” went a lot deeper into this and helped frame it a bit better.

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Aaron Smith's avatar

Why do you consider mid market to be zombies?

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Nikhil Davar's avatar

thoughts of Veeva here buck?

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Muhammad Wahdy's avatar

Hey Buck, great write up. I also think SaaS earnings are going to be disappointing and be quite choppy. I don't invest thematically, but generally think best-of-breed and high research intensity type firms will do better in aggregate. Wondering what you think about certain verticals like CX where firms seem to be moving towards consumption models.

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Patrick Mathieson's avatar

Glad to have you back.

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