VerticalEdge Briefing

Issue 4 · 2026-06-21

The Rule of 40 is lying to you in vertical SaaS

Public-SaaS median 28%; private 12%. Top-quartile vertical SaaS hits 50+ by being boring. Decomposing growth + margin separately.

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