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Public story · 2026-07-10 · high
It inverts a decade of SaaS logic where a big market excused slow growth, per July comps from multiples.vc.
Why now: The July comps are the latest public pricing to treat AI-disruption exposure as its own multiple input, apart from growth or TAM.
Public software multiples are splitting, with vertical AI-native applications trading strong while traditional SaaS compresses, per July comps from multiples.vc.
That inverts a decade of SaaS logic, where a big total addressable market excused slow growth. For founders, a credible agent story is worth more in the pitch than a bigger market, per the comps.
The comps show investors pricing AI-disruption exposure into the multiple on its own, separate from growth rate or TAM.
What the comps don't spell out is the multiple gap between the two groups, so how wide the split runs isn't clear.
That's an incentive I'm skeptical of, since a story is cheaper to write than a product is to defend.
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Intercom uses SaaS / Shared entity: SaaS / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Intercom uses SaaS); both cover SaaS; overlapping topics (agent, company, software).
Linked by a graph relationship (Intercom uses SaaS); both cover SaaS; overlapping topics (agent, software).
Zendesk uses SaaS / Shared entity: SaaS / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Zendesk uses SaaS); both cover SaaS; overlapping topics (agent, software).
Zendesk uses SaaS / Shared entities / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Zendesk uses SaaS); both cover July, SaaS; picks up the July thread on 2026-08-08.
Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension / Downstream implication
Both cover July, SaaS; overlapping topics (agent, company); picks up the July thread on 2026-07-22.
Intercom uses SaaS / Shared entity: July / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Intercom uses SaaS); both cover July; earlier July coverage from 2026-07-09.
Intercom uses SaaS / Shared entity: SaaS / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Intercom uses SaaS); both cover SaaS; earlier SaaS coverage from 2026-04-24.
Linked by a graph relationship (Intercom uses SaaS); both cover SaaS; earlier SaaS coverage from 2026-04-03.