2026.06: SaaSmageddon and the Super Bowl
The best Stratechery content from the week of February 2, 2025, including the future of software, SaaSmageddon and Super Bowl ads, and madness in basketball and football
Analysis of technology and media strategy from Ben Thompson.
The best Stratechery content from the week of February 2, 2025, including the future of software, SaaSmageddon and Super Bowl ads, and madness in basketball and football
An interview with Benedict Evans about the crisis facing software, the future of the corporation, OpenAI, and the struggle to define the LLM paradigm
Apple's earnings could have been higher but the company couldn't get enough chips; then, once again a new design meant higher sales in China
Microsoft got hammered on Wall Street for capacity allocation decisions that were the right ones: the software that wins will use AI to usurp other software
The best Stratechery content from the week of January 26, 2026, including tech's looming chip problem, what Meta is doing and why, and disappearing PLA generals and "De-Risking"
Meta is up, despite massive CapEx plans. The company is turning every dial to drive revenue, because Mark Zuckerberg thinks winning in AI is existential
An interview with Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Monsour about the value of prediction markets
Intel's earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity
The best Stratechery content from the week of January 19, 2025, including Netflix questions, what TSMC means to AI, and some basketball
An interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters about engagement, competition, and the Warner Bros. acquisition
TSMC admitted that it has invested too little in the face of overwhelming demand for AI; that's why the industry needs to facilitate competition for the foundry leader
OpenAI finally announced that ads are coming to ChatGPT. It's an important step, but one with far more risk given the delay — and the delay means the ads aren't yet the right ones