The Agentic Playbook: Surviving the $830B Software Crash

Robert Smith’s Blueprint for the $1 Trillion Software Boom Five Filters to Separate Software Winners from Losers After the $830 Billion Crash TL;DR The software sector lost $830 billion in six trading days after Anthropic launched new AI tools that spooked investors about the future of paid software. Robert Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners, […]
The Great Software Repricing: Why the $1 Trillion SaaSpocalypse Is a Strategic Gift to Incumbents

Summary Enterprise software stocks lost roughly $1 trillion in market cap as the IGV ETF fell 28% from its peak—its steepest drawdown in over a decade [Fintool]. Microsoft shed $357 billion in a single trading session after its earnings report, the second-largest single-day loss in stock market history [CNBC]. SAP’s shares cratered 15% in one […]