Short on-the-ground interview/transcript from SaaStr Annual describing the event’s energy and relevance for founders and VCs. Speakers emphasize SaaS’s continued strength, networking opportunities (VC and founders lounges, braindates/one-on-ones), and that the current market is a “new reality” that favors builders and founders.
Every year you kind of get a sense of what's hot, what's going on in the market, and they show up here at Zastra.
This is the place to be.
I remember being at Zastra in, I think 2016 and the huge names that are now valued at billions of dollars. They were just a couple of people with a laptop.
The world today moves really, really fast and to be able to do that and innovate and take chances, you have to have a company that bets then on software as a service. The people who are saying that SaaS is dead are wrong. It's never been more alive and we're gonna start to see the first wave of three person, billion dollar companies. You guys have a VC lounge, we have a founders lounge. The braindate system has made it really easy for me to set up one on ones, which is really what I want to do. I really want to have that one on one connection.
The energy here is incredible. Everybody here is very. I love how they're also taking care of us here. I feel completely like the red carpet has been rolled out for us here today. I think it's just really important to be where founders are, to meet them, where they're at. And this is a really important show for startups and for VCs, both of whom are very important audiences.
For us, founding a company is not easy and anything we can do to try and promote entrepreneurship just resonates really well with me. We are saster. We are Saster.
Just the answer. There are so many people here. There are so many companies doing really exciting things. Small companies just getting started, always having big ideas, larger companies. It's a great place to meet customers, prospects and have a chance to kind of sell what we're up to.
In the last two years and SaaS have been wild. It's been a different funding market, a different growth market. There's been a lot of pressures and in this different environment. Jason talks about how it's not a downturn, but it's a new reality. When there is great changes like this. There's never been a better time to be a builder, to be a founder, founder, to be an operator.
We are saster.
We are saster. We are sast. You got to be here next year.
