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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latkagetlatka.com
What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.
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1001 Why People Pay Him 30% of Spend For His AdTech Platform

"David Benoliel has spent the past 25 years at the intersection of technology and marketing as a software designer, marketer, salesman, project manager, executive and whatever else it took to keep things running. As a startup junky, he enjoys participating in the creation of things that did not exist before, and working with passionate, smart and committed people who feel the same way that I do. Today he works with leading brands and publishers to deliver high performing, content-driven advertis...

Apr 21, 201813 min

1000 The Genius in Agency + SaaS Business Model

Sean Schroeder is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of blueriver and co-founder of the Mura Digital Experience Platform. A former front-end developer and designer, he's been on a mission to simplify and enrich lives by helping others find Flow long before he knew it was a thing.

Apr 20, 201816 min

999 He Bet Big on Salesforce, Now His CMS Does $7.5m

"Doug Girvin is the CEO and Founder of Stantive Technologies Group, whose flagship product, OrchestraCMS is the first and only known Enterprise class Content Management Platform built 100% natively on the Salesforce.com platform. Throughout his career Doug has led teams to focus on helping customers leverage advanced technologies to solve significant, mission critical, business challenges both within and beyond their organizations. Always with a goal of driving business value and improving the u...

Apr 19, 201816 min

997 AI Company is Real Deal with 4x YoY Revenue Growth to $3m+ in ARR

David Benigson founded Signal Media in 2012 with the belief that artificial intelligence would fundamentally change the way businesses worked. As CEO, David has led Signal through multiple funding rounds totalling £8.2m, most recently a £5.8m Series A fundraising in December 2016. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in January 2017.

Apr 17, 201815 min

996 Guess Why This $600m Man Came out of "Martha Vineyard" Retirement

Marc Daniels specializes in launching SaaS companies and rapidly developing the infrastructure and internal sales organizations to drive multi-million dollar revenue streams. Prior to Results.com Marc was a founding member of Diligent Board Member Services, which sold to private equity for $NZ 941 million in 2016.

Apr 16, 201819 min

995 Pakistan King of SaaS

Founder and CEO of Cloudlead (formerly EListGuy). I am a motivated, tech savvy and result-driven business leader with a thirst for achieving accelerated revenue growth for a diverse client base. I have been involved in assisting SMEs with head hunting, executive search and building comprehensive B2B databases through outsourcing.

Apr 15, 201817 min

994 Why Forbes Uses Quizzes Instead of "Opt In Landing Pages"

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Home Depot, and Forbes. He's probably seen more quizzes than any other human on earth right now

Apr 14, 201816 min

993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

Luke Beatty serves as the Chairman and CEO of Brandfolder, a digital asset management platform located in Denver. Prior to that, he served as the President of Media Brands at Verizon/ AOL. Luke founded Associated Content, Inc. in 2004 and served as its President & CEO. He sold that company to Yahoo in 2010. Prior thereto, Luke served on the executive management team of WAND, Inc. His expertise is in contextual advertising models, online media collection, and distribution strategies. In his f...

Apr 13, 201822 min

992 Is She Building The New Wordpress for Enterprise?

"Linda Holliday is an entrepreneur who has spent a career at the intersection of media, marketing and tech, building leading-edge strategies, technologies and companies that empower the most demanding marketers and publishers to learn, teach, target, sell, and story-tell across an ever-expanding array of opportunities and challenges. She is the founder and chief executive of Citia, a first and only 3rd party system that creates swipe-able card-based media flows that integrate into the native fee...

Apr 12, 201822 min

991 He's Built 400+ Chatbots Making $800k in The Process

"Andrew started a $30M company built on email marketing when email marketing was just getting started. Many know Andrew from his company Mixergy, where he has interviewed over 1,500 entrepreneurs and startup founders, such as the founders of Airbnb, Twitch, Groupon and LinkedIn. In recent years, he has been an angel investor in two of the early chat messaging platform companies (Manychat & Assist) which eventually lead him to build Bot Academy. Bot Academy is an online program that teaches p...

Apr 11, 201825 min

990 How Commenting App Disqus Makes $20m+ Annually

"Daniel Ha is the CEO and cofounder of Disqus. Daniel studied computer science engineering at UC Davis and interned at big companies before deciding to drop out of school to pursue the startup world. Disqus is the web's most ubiquitous discussion network, reaching over 2 billion unique visitors every month and spanning nearly any topic or type of community imaginable. Backed by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, Iris Capital as well as many great angel investors....

Apr 10, 201823 min

989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

As the Founder of 5 start-ups, John has made more mistakes than most. He's currently the CEO of HireMojo, a SaaS Hiring Automation Platform with a RecruiterBot®. He also founded Accolo, an award-winning RPO and was VP of HR at BofA. He has a BS in Math from Notre Dame and was on the US National Rowing Team.

Apr 09, 201819 min

987 Secret Button Big Brands Push to Launch 40,000 Landing Pages at Once

"Expertise and dedication define our company/team. Daniel Rust, a gifted software architect and Mark Michael a bold entrepreneur met in high school. They've been working together ever since. DevHub recognized a gap in the CMS market between website builder and enterprise scale, and pounced, launching DevHub. DevHub received funding from the best VC and angel investors in Seattle, LA, NYC and Silicon Valley. From our downtown Seattle HQ, we successfully help big name global and national clients m...

Apr 07, 201817 min

986 The College of The Future Just Hit $10m in ARR

Beri Meric is the Co-Founder & CEO of IVY, The Social University (IVY.com) which unites rising leaders through a lifetime of learning, growth, and impact. IVY has 20,000 members and 200,000 followers who support its mission to unlock potential and spark a new renaissance promoting human unity, progress, and fulfillment.

Apr 06, 201819 min

985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

David Barrett started programming at the early age of 6 and has been aspiring to become an expense report magnate ever since. David attended the University of Michigan where he worked in the Virtual Reality Lab, before moving to Texas to write 3D graphics engines for the video game industry. Next he moved to California to join Travis Kalanick in building a peer-to-peer file transfer technology called Red Swoosh, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007. In 2008, David left Akamai to start Expensify ...

Apr 05, 201817 min

984 New King of Influencer Marketing Grows Revenue 6x YoY to $8m

"Gil Eyal is the CEO and Founder of HYPR, the World's largest influencer search and discovery directory. Founded in 2013, HYPR offers brands and marketers in-depth audience analytics for over 10 million influencers across major social channels. Gil has revolutionized the way many of the World's biggest agencies and brands are running influencer marketing by focusing on the same data, analytics and audience demographic information relevant to any other form of marketing. Under Gil's direction, HY...

Apr 04, 201818 min

983 200 People Have Paid Him $2k To Live Forever

Steven Clausnitzer is CEO of Forever Labs, a Y Combinator company. Prior to Forever Labs, Steven spent 15 years mentoring and developing top-talent at fortune 500 companies including American Express and Wolters Kluwer. Steven has extensive experience in strategic growth, commercialization, and team leadership.

Apr 03, 201821 min

982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!

Brandon is the COO and Co-founder of Cirrus Insight – the sales plugin for Gmail and Outlook. The company is #41 on the Inc. 5000 and the fastest-growing company in Tennessee. Brandon once raced his bicycle 508 miles across Death Valley in 35 hours and 7 minutes.

Apr 02, 201823 min

981 The Problem With 100% MarketShare

Erica Brescia is the Co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1M deployments per month, the company provides the largest source of application and development environments to the world's largest cloud service providers. In 2016, Erica was the recipient of the Top Women in Cloud award. Erica sits on the board of directors at The Linux Foundation and was an investment partner at XFactor Ventures, which empowers female-led businesses to succeed.

Apr 01, 201819 min

979 How Funnel.io 3x ARR to $2.1m in Last 12 Months

Fredrik Skantze is CEO and co-founder of Funnel.io. Prior to starting Funnel he was co-founder of the automotive e-tailer Autoquake in London and worked as Product Director for mobile internet pioneer Openwave in San Francisco. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a Masters Degree in Engineering from MIT.

Mar 30, 201818 min

978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

Sam Saltis is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in growing online companies and executing digital strategies. Sam is currently the founder and CEO at Core dna, a SaaS Digital experience platform (DXP) that is disrupting the way website properties are built and managed.

Mar 29, 201818 min

977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

Aaron Fulkerson is an information technology businessman and co-founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model, collaborative networks, and the application of Web Oriented Architecture to enterprise software. Prior to co-founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft's Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research.

Mar 28, 201825 min

9 of you donated $527, show will continue

Big thanks to Lee, Shadi, Sarah, Norris, Blake, Hugh, Gregory, Brandon, and Gijs who told me they wanted the show to continue using their wallets on Patreon. Get exclusive interviews, access to monthly SaaS call, and monthly excel file with data at Nathanlatka.com/Patreon

Mar 27, 20186 min

976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

Steve Hartert is Chief Marketing Officer at JotForm.com, with responsibility for marketing programs, brand management and corporate partnerships. Prior to joining JotForm, he was president of Hartert and Associates, a marketing consultancy that worked with B2B and B2C companies. Steve has more than 25 years of marketing management experience.

Mar 27, 201820 min

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Mar 26, 20188 min
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