The New Gravity of Software: Decoding ICONIQ’s Pacesetter Index and What It Means for the AI Era
Executive Overview For the past fifteen years, the B2B software ecosystem has relied on a predictable set of gravitational laws. Startups measured their health against standardized benchmarks: the aspirational "triple, triple, double, double, double" growth trajectory, gross margins safely hovering near 80%, steady linear decay curves as companies scaled, and modest, highly efficient workforces. These…
