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by toddmorey 292 days ago
50% margins would be actually low and concerning for a saas business. What makes software an attractive business is how well it scales. The standard for saas has been at least 80% or higher margins.

Most all saas accounts require lengthy and generous free trials and boy AI compute throws a bit of a hand grenade into that PLG strategy. It’s just new economics that the industry will have to figure out.