Episode 1: Why Industry Experts Make the Best Startup Founders

Should industry experts become founders? 🚀 In this first episode, we dig into why the people best positioned to build great startups often don't realise it, and why deep domain expertise might be the most underrated founder advantage there is. If you've spent years (or decades) inside an industry, there is probably something you can "do in your sleep." That's exactly the knowledge worth leveraging! But this is also why so many experts overlook it. We unpack the "oblivious bias": when you know so much about something, you assume everyone else does too. (Spoiler: they don't!) In this episode: Why insiders spot problems outsiders miss, and why the lack of domain expertise is one of the main reasons startups fail The expert blind spot: assuming the problems you live with every day are unsolvable Cognitive biases that sink startups (and how to catch them early) Case study: How an NHS surgeon turned an. every day operating-room frustration into a global healthtech company, eventually scaling the product in 500 hospitals across 100 countries What skills actually matter in the age of AI: why soft skills are the new hard skills Humans scan, AI reads everything... but AI hallucinates, and experts calibrate and sense-check "If you're impressed by AI-generated output in your own field, you probably don't understand that field deeply enough" The new role for experts: Chief Agentic X Officer: managing AI agents and applying judgment on top What makes an expert investable: credibility, network, and founder-market fit Plus: Resources recommendations to get started We want to hear from you! What problem from your career annoyed you for years? What inefficiency do you see every day that everyone else ignores? Drop them in the comments. The answers night be the venture you were born to build 🚀 Or if you'd rather ask us directly, send us an email: investable.studio@gmail.com 👍 If this was useful, like and subscribe! ------ This show is sponsored by Lumni Works – lumni.work notNULL Ventures – notnull.vc