Sales‑lineages Concentrate SaaS Power

Enterprise‑software selling is governed by tacit, apprenticeship‑style knowledge transmitted through mentor lineages; one influential teacher can create a recurring vocabulary, hiring pipeline and managerial orthodoxy that shapes how an entire sector operates. That hidden institutional channel helps explain why many SaaS firms converge on the same go‑to‑market playbooks and leadership norms. — If true, informal mentorship networks are a key governance lever in tech markets — they affect competition, hiring, innovation diffusion, and where regulatory scrutiny should look.