FirstMark Partner: AI-Natives, Death of SaaS, and Agentification Are Accelerating
mattturck · x · 2026-08-12
Matt Turck, Partner at FirstMark Capital, stated that the rate of change in the startup ecosystem is currently compounding exponentially.
He observed that many existing trends are accelerating vertiginously, primarily including the rise of AI-natives, the death of traditional SaaS, the concentration of capital in a few dominant companies and VCs, and the comprehensive agentification of software systems.
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