"What would you do if someone had offered you $100k… but, in order to get it, you had to drop out of college?

And what if that person making the offer was Peter Thiel?

That’s what happened to Luke Sophinos.

Luke dropped out of college to join the Thiel Fellowship where he met incredible founders and gained a Silicon Valley network overnight. He niched down his startup and created a vertical SaaS business for trade schools.

He rarely does interviews despite being the most knowledgeable person out there on vertical SaaS.

Thankfully he’s a friend, so we sat down to go deep on why the highest-upside SaaS opportunities have shifted from horizontal to vertical, why owning the transaction layer is key to building a venture-scale vertical SaaS business, and tactical frameworks to grow a vertical SaaS product."

Did a fun pod with my friend, Houck.

Hope you all enjoy: