Hosted by Luke Sophinos · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 29 episodes
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A VC and a Founder intellectually spar on Vertical Tech & AI: covering the latest news, unpacking in-depth business strategies, and interviewing world-class leaders in the space, every Thursday.
Luke Sophinos hosts Verticals: A Weekly Biz Show, a business show with 29 episodes published.
The biggest problem in AI isn't building the product.It's staying relevant six months later.Models improve every month. New competitors appear every week. And switching costs are lower than most founders want to admit.So
Show notesEveryone thinks AI will change software through chat. But the biggest shift might actually happen through voice. Because when humans stop typing and start talking to AI naturally, the amount of context, emotion, and real
Show notesEveryone wants to build an AI company right now.But most founders are asking the wrong question.The real challenge isn’t building AI.It’s building something defensible once everyone else has access to the same models.In
Show notesIn high-stakes industries, 99% accurate is the same as wrong. That last 1% is the entire business. In renewable energy, a single mistake can delay projects by months… or kill them entirely. That’s exactly what Jacob Sand
Show notesIf AI can do the work… why are we still valuing software like it only sells tools?And if the real opportunity isn’t software (but labor) are we about to underestimate the biggest companies of this cycle?In this episode o
Show notesEveryone says SaaS is dead. Public software stocks are down. Multiples are collapsing. And AI is coming for everything. But what if that’s not the full story? In this episode of Verticals, Nic sits down with Morgan Liver
Show notesWhen’s the last time you thought about laundromats? Probably never. But behind the scenes, this “boring” industry is quietly making BILLIONS of dollars every year... still running on coins, legacy systems, and almost no
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What does it actually take to beat a billion-dollar incumbent? Not just compete with them, but WIN. Most industries today are still dominated by legacy software: Expensive. Slow to innovate. And often deeply hated by the
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This business started with a simple frustration. Waiting an hour… just to play tennis. No booking system. No software. Just pen and paper in 2016. Most people would complain and move on, but Andres Robelo decided to buil
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Everyone says AI will replace doctors, automate care, and transform healthcare. But what if the biggest opportunity isn’t in care at all... but in fixing how healthcare actually gets paid? The claims. The denials. The en
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Everyone says AI agents are the future. But what if most of them… don’t actually work? Not because the tech is bad, but because the way they’re being sold is completely wrong. In this episode of Verticals, Nic sits down
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Everyone says AI will replace humans. But what if the biggest unlock isn’t replacing people at all… it’s removing the invisible work they’re buried under? The spreadsheets. The back-and-forth emails. The manual processes
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke and Nic sit down with Dave Pandullo and Scott Hoch, General Partners at Frontier Growth and founders of AQL Growth, to unpack where defensibility, and returns, are really coming from in
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke and Nic sit down with Nick Tippmann (Founder & Managing Partner, TipTop VC) to break down what’s really happening as AI agents and workflow tools trigger panic across the markets, and w
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Today on Verticals, we sit down with Darren Feike, Founder & CEO of Sante, building a complete operating system for wine & liquor stores. What looks like a niche is actually massive: the US liquor store market is ~$80B,
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke Sophinos and Nic Poulos sit down with Mike Powers, CEO and Co-founder of BuildVision, to unpack one of the hardest problems in vertical software: how to build and monetise products insi
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke Sophinos and Nic Poulos sit down with Michael Saltzman, co-founder and co-CEO of EvolutionIQ, to unpack one of the biggest misconceptions in enterprise AI: Is adoption slow because the
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke Sophinos and Nic Poulos sit down with Nate Baker, founder and CEO of Qualia and creator of Fractal, to unpack one of the most controversial questions in modern SaaS: Is TAM actually too
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke Sophinos and Nic Poulos sit down with Scott Wolf, founder and former CEO of Levelset, to unpack what it really takes to build and exit a vertical SaaS company, including Levelset’s ~$50
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In this episode of Verticals, Luke Sophinos and Nic Poulos sit down with Rahul Hampel, GM & VP of FinTech at ServiceTitan, to break down what embedded finance actually looks like when it’s done right, and where most vert
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