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Fortune Contrarian Case: Wall Street SaaS Panic Is Overblown — Jensen Huang, BofA Analyst, and Nobel Economist All Push Back
Fortune publishes a major contrarian thesis arguing the SaaSpocalypse is overreacting. BofA senior analyst Vivek Arya calls the selloff 'indiscriminate, overblown, and logically inconsistent,' NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang tells CNBC 'the markets got it wrong' because AI agents will use software not replace it, and Nobel economist Oliver Hart cites 'exchange costs' that protect incumbents. Historical parallels drawn: video cameras didn't kill film (theatrical production tripled), desktop publishing didn't kill printing (employment peaked at 680K in 1998). Fed data shows AI saves just 2.2 hours/week average per user — hardly an extinction event.
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