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Re:Ask HN: Are there fewer companies selling software now? by karterk on Saturday April 23, 2016 @09:56PM (#11558247)
Here's another way to look at it: Facebook, Google & Twitter sell their software to advertisers that allows them to reach their target audience. Here "selling" is actually a service.

Uber is mostly a software company - the cars are owned by the drivers. When you pay for a Uber ride, you're infact paying a part of it to the software which helped you find the ride.

Apart from that, there are huge swaths of enterprise software companies in every industry/domain you will probably have never heard of. Some of them are even billion dollar companies.

Re:Ask HN: Are there fewer companies selling software now? by throwaway7774 on Monday April 25, 2016 @05:25AM (#11563234)
Yes I used to work for Wisetech Global. This is such a company. Recently floated on Australian Stock Exchange.