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Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities

Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities

Update: 2024-10-04
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As LLMs continue to improve, it's clear that vertical AI agents are key to the next generation of billion-dollar SaaS opportunities.




In this episode of the Lightcone, we sat down with Jake Heller, the co-founder and CEO of Castext— which sold to Thomson Reuters for $650 million in 2023— to discuss what it takes to build a successful vertical AI company.

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