3 ms·

All SaaS got their faces ripped off on Friday. Basically I think it has to do with Google's stock behavior, which has been pretty disastrous. After posting am

All SaaS got their faces ripped off on Friday. Basically I think it has to do with Google's stock behavior, which has been pretty disastrous. After posting amazing earnings and 20% growth, it is down $130+ in 4 days. Given that performance, people are selling first and asking questions later, which is why LNKD and Tableau got destroyed on Friday, and why other SaaS like Salesforce did as well. For the stocks that haven't announced yet, the sellers are thinking "Well if Google is down $130, and Salesforce won't have Google's numbers, then it's only going to get destroyed so I should sell now." Looks like the only few strong companies in the Valley right now are the stalwarts like Facebook, and everything else is at risk of getting whacked sooner or later. To all those that think "The bubble will burst", they haven't been paying attention to the stock market. Tech is down bigtime in the last year, the bubble has already burst. What we're waiting to see if which companies will survive the fallout, ie. lowered VC funding, harder funding rounds, less revenues, etc. The tide has been going out since 2015, and 2016 is the year in which we find out which unicorns were swimming naked and which weren't.

akg_67 11y ago
> the bubble has already burst. Bubble is bursting. Nobody knows that it has already burst or finish bursting. When I see exodus from Bay Area like the one in 2001-2002 then I will believe the bubble has burst. Tech-stock wreck destroys $529B this year http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/05/tech-wreck-destroys-514b-year/79875316/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/05/tech-...
- pfarnsworth 11y ago
  It's semantics, we're saying the same thing. Once the bubble bursts, then the fallout begins. Already we're seeing a few thousand layoffs from established companies (Autodesk, Yahoo, GoPro, Twitter, etc), and I've heard that LinkedIn is going to have layoffs, too. The consequences of the burst don't necessarily have to be as catastrophic as the dotcom bust, so it may or may not be dire enough affect traffic, commercial rent prices, etc, the same way. I do think that it may be painful, but hopefully it's not filled with fraud like the dotcom bust.
  - jonesb6 11y ago
    Ok c'mon people GoPro does not belong with Twitter, Yahoo, and Autodesk. Yahoo has been on it's way down for the better part of a decade. If you're going to provide 'evidence' at least make sure it's valid first otherwise your whole argument goes to shit.
    - pfarnsworth 11y ago
      Of course they belong. Their inflated stock hit almost $100 less than a year ago and now it's $10. They are in the 90 percent club, like most of tech back in the dotcom bust. They have arrived there faster than others, so why exactly doesn't it belong with the rest of them? Plus, they are having layoffs. It's actually a perfect fit to my argument.

akg_67 11y ago

> the bubble has already burst. Bubble is bursting. Nobody knows that it has already burst or finish bursting. When I see exodus from Bay Area like the one in 2001-2002 then I will believe the bubble has burst. Tech-stock wreck destroys $529B this year http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/05/tech-wreck-destroys-514b-year/79875316/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/05/tech-...

pfarnsworth 11y ago
It's semantics, we're saying the same thing. Once the bubble bursts, then the fallout begins. Already we're seeing a few thousand layoffs from established companies (Autodesk, Yahoo, GoPro, Twitter, etc), and I've heard that LinkedIn is going to have layoffs, too. The consequences of the burst don't necessarily have to be as catastrophic as the dotcom bust, so it may or may not be dire enough affect traffic, commercial rent prices, etc, the same way. I do think that it may be painful, but hopefully it's not filled with fraud like the dotcom bust.
- jonesb6 11y ago
  Ok c'mon people GoPro does not belong with Twitter, Yahoo, and Autodesk. Yahoo has been on it's way down for the better part of a decade. If you're going to provide 'evidence' at least make sure it's valid first otherwise your whole argument goes to shit.
  - pfarnsworth 11y ago
    Of course they belong. Their inflated stock hit almost $100 less than a year ago and now it's $10. They are in the 90 percent club, like most of tech back in the dotcom bust. They have arrived there faster than others, so why exactly doesn't it belong with the rest of them? Plus, they are having layoffs. It's actually a perfect fit to my argument.