Travis Hoium

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If you have followed the market at all over the past week or two, you can see that SaaS stocks have been absolutely hammered in 2026, and the selling seems to be getting worse by the day.

The theory seems to be that AI is going to do everything that software companies do today.

But my big question is, John, if the software companies aren't going to be valuable and aren't going to be making money, who pays for all the AI?

It seems like there's a lot of different narratives going on here.

So what's the real story?

So you're saying the companies that are built on a feature and not necessarily a platform, they're the ones that are going to be potentially in trouble?

And the stat that I heard this week, I don't know if you guys heard this, but the average large company has over 400 different SaaS applications that they're paying for on an ongoing basis.

And every one of them, I'm sure, answers some sort of question.

The question is, if there's, you know, let's say 200 of them or 300 of them are a feature, you know, it's a payroll feature.

And now that can just be rolled into this bigger thing that AI can answer.

Maybe those don't need to be paid anymore.

John, I know you like to find a good value stock, stocks that are trading for very low price earnings multiples or price of book values.

Where are you trying to bottom fish and trying to figure out whether you're catching a falling knife or getting a great deal?

Yeah, it is fascinating to sort of look and go, wait, this company that I wanted to buy but thought it was really expensive is now really cheap.

What am I missing?

And oftentimes that's when the values or when the great buys can come out is when you feel crazy buying something that everyone else is selling.

But it's hard to know what's real and what's not in this market.

When we come back, we're going to play in a little Olympics game, give gold, silver and bronze out.

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