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AI Is Making Sales More Human
Why AI SDRs flop in vertical markets
Oct 7
False Profits
The VC obsession with outcome pricing, and why it's bad advice for most Vertical AI founders
Oct 6
The Coming Wave of Vertical AI M&A
To date, have incumbents been too slow, too poor, or too proud?
Oct 2

September 2026

SaaSpocalypse Now What?
A year later, NRR is steady & prices are up... but markets are still pricing in one big AI fear
Sep 29
Venture Is Not an Asset Class, It Is a Handful of Charts
a16z makes the case for more ‘Big Venture’ using evidence that makes the case against it
Sep 24
What Veeva Can Teach Vertical AI
Vertical Intimacy & Dom DiNardo’s quest to bring AI to CPG
Sep 18
The Sriracha Problem
with Mike Duboe, General Partner at Greylock
Sep 9
Forward-Deployed Everything
with Quinn Litherland, Founder & CEO @ Revin
Sep 3

August 2026

Nobody Wants Your Software
with Yoni Rechtman, Partner @ Slow Ventures
Aug 26
The Verticalist Summit Is Back
Apply today to join 150 leading founders, operators, and investors in Vertical AI
Aug 25
$100M, Zero Churn, All Channel
with Sahill Poddar, Co-Founder & CEO @ Parafin
Aug 19
Venture Capital's Blackstone Problem
with Rick Zullo, Founder & Managing Partner of Equal Ventures
Aug 5
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