
S9E398 - #398 – How Scott Reynolds bet on depth over breadth and built a position that sticks
Published: March 25, 2026
Duration: 45:26
A story about choosing the hard problem—and winning because of it.
This episode is for sales-led SaaS founders who feel their product lead shrinking—and wondering what actually creates a position competitors can't close.
Most founders chase obvious markets. Scott Reynolds chose a complicated one nobody else wanted.
Scott, co-founder and CEO of UpCodes, is a trained architect who has lived the pain of navigating construction regulations. Weeks buried in phone-book-sized regulations that no software had organized—until he built it.
While others built broad tools for obvious problems, Scott went n...