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The Current EditionIssue No. 047 · Week of 6 July 2026 · The Rail Thesis
Now On Stage · Ledgerbase

“We stopped selling software the day we became a platform.”

Elena Cho on how Ledgerbase crossed from vertical SaaS into the payments and data rail its whole category now runs on.

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Elena Cho
Founder & CEO, Ledgerbase
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Editor’s Note
On what this week’s shift means for the people building software.

This week, a founder who stopped selling software and started running a rail. It is the clearest example yet of the shift this publication exists to document — and a preview of a decision most of the industry has not realised it faces.

— The Editors · Issue No. 047
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The workflow is where you start. The rail is where you become impossible to remove.
Elena Cho · Ledgerbase · Edition 047
Six Months Later · a shift, revisited
Then · Jan 2026
“A CRM will launch a revenue-share marketplace within the year.”
Now · Jul 2026
Two of the five tracked leaders shipped payments platforms this quarter — the rail thesis is holding.
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