Linear: A Vertical Software & Vertical AI Newsletter
Luke SophinosThe newsletter on Vertical Software & AI. In your email inbox once a week. VerticalSaaSGroup.com
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Linear #183.5: What a founder, who sold his last company for $780M, is unlearning to build the next AI-native winner
Burn the instincts.
Own the distribution.
Build the hard thing.
In 2014, Zain Jaffer was running Vungle from a London bedroom on a few thousand dollars. By 2019 it had sold to Blackstone for $780M. By 2021 it was public at $4B.
Th...
Linear #183: The Token Uplift: Why Vertical AI Companies Can Get To A Billion Faster Than Vertical SaaS Ever Could.
Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Xplor Pay. In the Investor-Operator Guide to Embedded Payments, Xplor Pay examines how embedded payments increasingly impacts retention, operational scalability, monetization, and long-term enterpri...
Linear #182.5: How a principal created the fastest growing AI in education — and what every founder should learn from it.
Live the user’s job.
Package the context.
Ship the easy button.
In late 2022 the consensus take on application-layer AI was that it was a death sentence. Every startup was a thin wrapper around ChatGPT. Every wrapper would be obfusc...
Linear #182: The Software Survival Map, Who Is In The Kill Zone Of The Model Companies?
Today’s newsletter is sponsored by Xplor Pay. In the Investor-Operator Guide to Embedded Payments, Xplor Pay examines how embedded payments increasingly impacts retention, operational scalability, monetization, and long-term enterpri...
Linear #181.5: Anti-Pedigree and notes on backing the founders the consensus market wont
Pedigree is noise.
Evidence is signal.
Drive does the rest.
The honest version of inception-stage investing in 2026 is that the consensus market has fled to safety. The biggest funds are chasing founders who look de-risked on paper...
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Vertical Software Founder, CEO, & Investor // Formerly Founder & CEO @CourseKeyEDU (Sold to PSG) // Op Partner @JoinAtomic // Thiel Fellow @thielfellowship //
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