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Invest Like The Best

Why Now is the Best Time to Buy Public Software Companies

2026-03-24 · 6 company · 4 thematic
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mitchell green

Founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, a growth-equity firm. He has led investments in companies including Alibaba, Asana, ByteDance, and Grafana.

now playing · AI Bubble / Capex Debate
Private Marketsriskscore 7/10mitchell green
PE-owned software assets over-levered and cutting R&D, ripe for disruption
Thoma Bravo and similar PE firms loading software companies with debt while cutting R&D and sales to hit Rule of 50 metrics; this creates vulnerability for independent, entrepreneur-led sof…
Public Markets & Valuationtailwindscore 8/10mitchell green
Public software offers best risk-adjusted returns as fear creates Buffett-style opportunity
Market intensely skeptical of 'boring' high-margin software (Constellation Software stock as ski-slope indicator); Mitchell Green believes current fear creates best risk-adjusted entry poin…
AI Bubble / Capex Debateheadwindscore 9/10mitchell green
AI infrastructure spending bubble mirrors telecom crash; will end badly
Massive AI CapEx spending is unsustainable — earnings requirements, power needs, and nuclear plant timelines don't math out; compares to 2000 telecom bubble where dark fiber oversupply cras…
AI Infrastructuretailwindscore 8/10mitchell green
Consumption-based infrastructure software seeing unprecedented growth with strong economics
AI agents consume more compute resources than humans, driving explosive growth in infrastructure software (databases, observability) with consumption-based models; companies like ClickHouse…