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    a16z Podcast | Why SaaS Revenue is Worth More Than Traditional Software Sales

    Scott Kupor, Ron Gill, Scott Cooper

    NetSuite leverages SaaS economic leverage and high operating margins to achieve profitability during recessions while forcing incumbents like Oracle and SAP to navigate difficult architectural and financial transitions. This market shift decentralizes IT purchasing power to departmental heads and compels sales teams to adopt distinct hunter-farmer structures with ACV-based commissions. Concurrently, Andreessen Horowitz advises portfolio companies to delay IPOs to preserve strategic focus, noting that public markets ultimately serve primarily to facilitate employee liquidity and acquisition activity rather than immediate capital needs.