From English Prof to Tech Startup CEO: Steve Adams of Sabrix (Part 1)

Most technology executives with over 20 years of experience did not start their careers as English professors. They certainly don’t start as British literature PhDs teaching in Louisiana. Meet Steve Adams, CEO of Sabrix. Anything but ordinary, Steve has tremendous vision and an incredible track record of success. He worked his way from an entry-level tech

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Deal Radar 2008: Sabrix

On our radar today is Sabrix, a transaction tax management provider. Based in San Ramon, California, Sabrix provides applications for businesses to calculate and manage their taxes. I have discussed the company’s combining domain expertise with technology before.

Sabrix: Marrying Domain Expertise with Algorithms

The trend question that Sabrix poses for VCs and other enterprise software entrepreneurs: are there other such deep domain knowledge based opportunities which may allow you to carve a niche for yourself, and has a sufficient TAM to be interesting to investors?

And for VCs, this is a shift away from very deep, defensible technology based investments to something that is perhaps not the most challenging technical problem to address. Domain expertise, however, is extremely defensible, especially when married with technology.