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“Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from their money. So, alas, are those who, responding to a general mood of optimism, are captured by a sense of their own financial acumen. Thus it has been for centuries; thus in the long future it will also be.” - The signs of an epic bubble of historic proportions are everywhere. The stock market is a bubble, with valuations exceeding 2001. Margin debt is at all-time highs. The bond market is a bubble, wi...

Read later Audio version Summary: A discussion with Jeff Kaplan and Vinnie Mirchandani last week set me thinking about the history of SaaS and what it tells us about business in the new era of Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) (Screenshot from YouTube recording) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) — the use of software via the Internet, rather than locally on a standalone computer — has come to dominate computing over the past quarter-century, along with Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and other ...