☁️ Superbubbles + other 2022 Predictions
[Week 3, 2022] 📉 Cloud stocks fell 6.8%, 🐻 The 4th Superbubble, + 🚀 Hunting for Mega-Trends. Let's begin 👉👉

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Cloud stocks fell 6.8% for the holiday-shortened week ending January 21st, 2022. The Nasdaq fell 7.5% putting the tech-heavy index in a correction territory. Why? rates blah blah blah 🤷♂️
Netflix fell over 20% as the company reported earnings January 20th, missing analyst expectations for subscriber adds and guiding below street estimates.
(I'm already a day late and $WCLD had a 10% intra-day bar today - this is going to be quick and tweet heavy)
🐻 Everyone was hella bearish last week
Jeremy Grantham: "Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years."
Apparently this only happens before the world ends:
A full week of big down days hasn’t happened since the dot-com bubble burst, first in April 2000 and then in September 2001. Back then, the Nasdaq went on to fall another 28% before the market bottomed roughly a year later.
Nasdaq 100’s Unrelenting Declines Ring a Dot-Com Bust Alarm Bell
Last time VC performance was this high was in the dot com era. Remember: Fundamentals > Multiples/Valuation. Keep Building.
Reminder to all VCs out there who didn't live through dot com era..
We're good but not that good - last time returns for venture were this high was '98, 99 + they ended up at just 1.5x + 0.9x TVPI 20 yrs later. Just 10% realized now
Let's keep building!https://t.co/SZtzzdPU7R pic.twitter.com/29qbnXiY8Y— Ed Sim (@edsim) January 20, 2022
Chin up. At least you don't work in crypto.
Crypto Crash Erases More Than $1 Trillion in Market Value
📰 Software is eating the world. Make sure you're not the prey.
🚀 Hunting for Mega-Trends
Here's where top investors remain bullish heading into 2022:
While public market investors contend with marked-down portfolios and conflate multiple compression with demand destruction, VCs and cloud executives remain bullish on long-term demand and are hunting for the next mega-trend. - Me
Kleiner Perkins remains bullish on analytics, AI, and security in 2022
‘22 is going to be an awesome year in infrastructure software. I see so many great companies out there that are ready to cross the chasm.
Some thoughts from me on what is top of mind: https://t.co/CAZKRrHF2p— Bucky Moore (@buckymoore) January 10, 2022
OpenView: Talent war continues
Top Predictions For 2022 From OpenView Leaders - OpenView
Kellblog: 🐂 PLG, 🐻 Web3
Tom Tunguz: Data continues to go wild
Five Predictions for 2022 by @ttunguz
Breaking SaaS list:
☁️ 2022 Top SaaS Trends: Insights from 12 Cloud Leaders
🤑 Damn it feels good to be a seed investor
As growth investors are more-levered to public valuations, seed investors remain more focused on products and building:
— Justin Kan ❄️ (@justinkan) January 21, 2022
Founder to-do list: poach talent
Given the amount of 💰 raised in the last year and on the sidelines, IMO early stage will continue to be strong as there is no better place to invest capital. For founders who are just building, this is the best time ever to poach talent, especially from the public companies where employees unfortunately have underwater stock. - Ed Sims
In prior periods of multiple contraction, little impact on Series A rounds:
How Will the 52% Correction in the Stock Market Impact the Startup Fundraising Market? by @ttunguz
🤔 Grow Fast or Die Slow
Good to revisit the classic “Grow Fast or Die Slow” aka why SaaS is a bastardized accel/decel game
“Supergrowers”, Co’s w/ growth greater than 60% when they reached $100M in revs, were 8x more likely to reach $1B in revs than those growing less than 20%https://t.co/2DyOWPt7gO pic.twitter.com/cD3PChsuJB— Bucco Capital (@buccocapital) January 20, 2022
Full Report:
With blessings of strong NRR,
Thomas
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