Astral Codex Ten

B2B SAAS

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B2B SAAS

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B2B SAAS is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 02, 2026 and January 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “he spent the whole hinge of history making B2B SAAS products”; “not to start a B2B SAAS company”. It most often appears alongside Dario Amodei, San Francisco, Silicon Valley.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 02, 2026
  • Last seen: January 05, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

You Have Only X Years To Escape Permanent Moon Ownership
January 02, 2026 · Original source
You have only X years to escape being permanently boring when the weight of galactic humanity descends to scrutinize your life forever. Ten million years from now, do you want transhuman intelligences on a Niven Ring somewhere in Dario Amodei’s supercluster to briefly focus their deific gaze on your legacy and think “Yeah, he spent the whole hinge of history making B2B SAAS products because he was afraid of ‘joining the permanent underclass’, now he has a moon 20% bigger than the rest of us?” Or do you want them to think “She was one of the heroes who arose when the fate of humanity balanced on a knife’s edge, fought against the thousand forms of entropy that could have ended our paradise before it began, helped create a vision of broad-based prosperity that benefitted all humanity, and gets 0.000038501% of the credit for our current happy state. We grant her the rank of Forebear, and the Ancestor Veneration And Simulation Collective has built a megacathedral to her memory three star systems over”?
Open Thread 415
January 05, 2026 · Original source
5: Thanks to everyone who commented on the Permanent Moon Ownership post. I was trying to inspire people to think bigger than B2B SAAS employment in the New Year, but I think I got the tone wrong, and also said things that required more explanation than the literary form could offer. I might talk about them at more length, but here’s a brief summary of what I would have said in more declarative form:
Inline links: Permanent Moon Ownership
Gradual disempowerment (by humans or AI), coups by AI company executives, and techno-oligarchy by a tiny number of people are serious concerns. But you won’t join the oligarch class by starting a B2B SAAS company, and these concerns are more about democracy, freedom, inequality, and the meaning of life than about you personally being poor. The proper response to these scenarios (as the original post tried to argue) is to fight heroically against them and live forever in the pantheon of the benefactors of humanity - not to start a B2B SAAS company.