He Flunked School, Now Runs a Multi-Million Business
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Luke Campbell, Founder of VXT, and it went out on 2 March 2025. It covers the NZVC portfolio company VXT.
Luke Campbell was mastering World of Warcraft at 7 and struggling academically at 17. Today he runs VXT, a SaaS tool automating workflows for more than 500 law firms and processing more than 100,000 calls a week. He explains how 5,000 hours of gaming shaped his leadership, the pivot from voicemail to B2B SaaS, and the cold-calling that uncovered the legal industry's biggest pain point.
“If you're not embarrassed by your first product, you've launched too late.”Luke Campbell
- Why 5,000+ hours in World of Warcraft shaped his leadership.
- The pivot that turned routine legal tasks into billable time.
- Automating 50% of lawyers' paperwork with voice tech.
- Cold-calling lawyers to uncover a $2 trillion industry's biggest pain point.
Companies in this episode
VXT, legal tech, B2B SaaS, voice tech, gaming to startup, founder story