SaaS: how often the top podcasts talk about it.
SaaS came up in 10 of 89 episodes (11%) in the four weeks to Sep 27, against 19% in the earlier weeks. A change this size could be chance, so we do not call it a trend.
Share of episodes, four weeks at a time
The 10 episodes behind the newest bar
- Jensen’s Ezra Interview, EV News, Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Claude is BACK with Opus 5.5How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- Opus 5.5 is great (but GPT-6 Sol is better)How I AI · week ending Sep 27 · said it twice
- AI Safety Timeline Takeover, Bending Spoons Acquires Miro, iPhone Duo Reactions | Diet TB…TBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it 4 times
- OpenAI Cracks Navier-Stokes, Tech Trailers, AI Jobs Apocalypse on Hold | Diet TBPNTBPN · week ending Sep 13 · said it twice
- Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMPLatent Space · week ending Sep 13 · said it 6 times
- Jobs Boom, Astra Reactions, Cybercab Roll Out, The Dyson DebateTBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- 🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026TBPN · week ending Sep 6 · said it 3 times
- GPT-6 Astra blew away every one of my benchmarksHow I AI · week ending Sep 6 · said it twice
- NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation20VC with Harry Stebbings · week ending Sep 6 · said it 4 times
Earliest mentions in our archive
The first episode from each show that said it, oldest first. The matched words are marked.
“…complex. So these are the companies that sell licensed SAS to the corporations of America. It's about a3 to4 trillion a…”
“…era in tech, right? like it's cloud, it's mobile, it's SAS, whatever it is that there are moments of…”
Replit CEO: Why Coding Models are Plateauing & Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified | Amj…
“It's so interesting like people talk about Salesforce as just like SAS. We don't need SAS software anymore. We're…”
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Cla…
“…any different. And every cycle is like that. SAS was like that and mobile was like that and crypto was like that. So…”
The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil
“…happening right now. SaaS payment volumes on Stripe, they're actually a good chunk higher today than…”
“I think when you're doing it for your B2B SAS and you're just like giving a text input to a SAS that only does a…”
⚡️ Competing with ChatGPT and Sierra, building a $10M ARR company — Yasser Elsaid, Founde…
Most recent mentions
The newest episodes that count toward the chart, no more than two from one show.
“…sort of moved past the job apocalypse SAS apocalypse narrative which was predicted from somewhat of the same…”
Jensen’s Ezra Interview, EV News, Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc | Diet TBPN
“…the updated how I AI bench. This I did like though. Um, this is a basic SAS, you know, dashboard for renewals. Again,…”
“…you're right. I mean what it comes down to is like coding SAS will be the last SAS in the world because all the other…”
Inside the Team That Killed Mandatory Code Review — Quinn Slack, AMP
“…no one running a business says I really enjoy having five separate SAS products and integrating them because that's how…”
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
“…a little bit about Salesforce also coming back and the SAS apocalypse ending stock was up Nvidia's that is 9%…”
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer…
Which shows say it
| Show | Last four weeks | All weeks counted |
|---|---|---|
| TBPN | 5 | 15 |
| How I AI | 3 | 6 |
| 20VC with Harry Stebbings | 1 | 18 |
| Latent Space | 1 | 5 |
| All-In Podcast | 0 | 6 |
| Cheeky Pint | 0 | 3 |
| Lenny's Podcast | 0 | 3 |
| My First Million | 0 | 3 |
| No Priors | 0 | 2 |
| The Tim Ferriss Show | 0 | 2 |
More trends
Episodes in the newest four weeks:
How we count. An episode counts when its transcript says “SaaS” or “SAS” at least twice; plurals count too. We count a shortened re-upload of an episode we already have only once, and we skip the sponsor reads we can spot: the lines around phrases like “brought to you by”, and any passage a show reads word for word in three or more episodes. The share is the counted episodes divided by all episodes from the tech, business and science shows we cover in the same four weeks, so a busy month of releases does not raise it by itself. The mix of shows does change from month to month, and one daily show can move a number. Weeks run Monday to Sunday, and the week in progress is left out until it ends. The chart starts with the week of April 13, 2026, when our archive became steady. A few older episodes can still appear under the earliest mentions, and some weeks have gaps. Transcripts are automatic captions, so we also match the spellings they use. Counts SaaS and the spelling YouTube captions use for it (SAS). We skip a mention near words that point to something else with that spelling, such as the SAS motto or SaaStr. The counts cover only the shows we summarize. Download the counts (JSON) or CSV.