Saastr iconSaastrJun 22, 2026

Salesforce at 2.8x ARR, HubSpot Down 56%, Adobe at 11x Earnings: Are They Just Too Oversold Now?

In a 48-hour stretch in February, roughly $285 billion in software market cap evaporated. The trigger was the fear that AI agents would make per-seat licensing obsolete, that the entire model of charging companies for seats their employees would no longer need was about to...

Salesforce at 2.8x ARR, HubSpot Down 56%, Adobe at 11x Earnings: Are They Just Too Oversold Now?

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In a 48-hour stretch in February, roughly $285 billion in software market cap evaporated.

The trigger was the fear that AI agents would make per-seat licensing obsolete, that the entire model of charging companies for seats their employees would no longer need was about to...

Four months ago the markets decided B2B software was dead.

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In a 48-hour stretch in February, roughly $285 billion in software market cap evaporated. The trigger was the fear that AI agents would make per-seat licensing obsolete, that the entire model of charging companies for seats their employees would no longer need was about to... Four months ago the markets decided B2B software was dead.

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Four months ago the markets decided B2B software was dead.

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