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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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1031 How VWO Bootstrapped to $15m+

Paras Chopra is the Founder & CEO of Wingify, an India based fast-growing software company that makes globally admired technology products like Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) and PushCrew With a background in computational biology, machine learning, online marketing and web technologies, Paras started Wingify in early 2009. Twice featured in the Forbes list, in 2014 the Forbes India "30 Under 30" List followed by 2016 top "promising young leaders and game changers" under the age of 30 in Asi...

May 21, 201817 min

1030 Would you sell for $1.5m?

Pushkar is the founder of Aeroleads which is a bootstrap prospect generation software startup with over 20,000+ users. When not working, he likes to work on finishing his time machine!

May 20, 201813 min

1029 The Right Way to 18x Your Price Point With $1.2m MRR Pendo CEO

Todd Olson is CEO and Co-Founder of Pendo, a product experience platform that helps product managers deliver successful products. Before Pendo, Todd served as VP of Products at Rally Software Development which he led through its public offering. Todd joined Rally via its acquisition of 6th Sense, a company he founded and served as President and CTO.

May 19, 201818 min

1027 Finally a $10m+ PR Company Focused on Analytics!

Erik is an expert in PR analytics and big data. Before leading TrendKite, he ran Product for Sprinklr after the merger with social analytics firm Dachis Group. He brought to market Dachis Group's platform that enables brands to optimize paid, owned and earned tactics through the lens of earned media.

May 17, 201822 min

1026 "Juri, would you sell to me now for $1.5m?"

Juri Kaljundi is the CEO & Co-founder of Weekdone, a weekly team check-ins and quarterly OKR goal-setting service, turning any team into superheroes. He is a serial entrepreneur, having started building web-based products in 1994. He's a product guy with tech background and vast business leadership experience. In addition to Weekdone, he is the Co-Founder of Garage48 startup foundation.

May 16, 201816 min

1024 How He Bought Out His VC's, Won His Company Back, Now Doing $24m Annually

Nigel Shanahan set up Rant & Rave after a poor experience at a motorway service station. He believes that consumer emotions drive their behaviour and a company's revenue. Rant & Rave is on a mission to change the world of customer feedback from dull surveys to a conversation that customers want to have

May 14, 201820 min

1023 Will He Win Battle For Bottom of Blog

John Lemp is an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses, and all with $0 in funding. John graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology. In 2013, John Founded Revcontent, a content recommendation network. Revcontent has grown into one of the largest Native and Content Recommendation companies in the world, powering over 250 Billion Content Recommendations per month....

May 13, 201823 min

1022 How This Barcelona Sales Tool Grew 2x YoY, Raised $16m, Charging $200/Seat

Oscar Macia is an experienced, sales-orientated manager and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of ForceManager. ForceManager has transformed from small start-up to leading competitor in sales management in just a short space of time. This rapid growth has seen ForceManager's impact spread globally to over 35 countries, with offices already open in Spain, London and Latin America counting with a wide portfolio of clients including several large multinationals. Maciá earned a degree in Nuc...

May 12, 201819 min

1021 How He Solved Translation Marketplace Space and Grew 7x YoY to $24m in Revenue

Entrepreneur and CEO with more than 10 years of experience in linguistic technologies and services. Now focused on building an operating and payment platform for the global translation industry, Smartcat.ai, through enabling collaborative workflow and automating hiring and settlements for all market participants.

May 11, 201821 min

1020 Urban Outfitters Inventory Management Tool Breaks $6m in ARR

John has spent the last two decades helping retailers, distributors, and brands optimize their omni-channel strategies and operations. Prior to Celect, John was VP of Product Management & Strategy for Oracle Commerce, coming to Oracle via the Endeca acquisition where John was VP of Marketing & Product Management. John started his career within Deloitte Consulting's Strategy & Operations practice. John holds a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Boston College and received his m...

May 10, 201821 min

1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

Kevin Tan is an accomplished entrepreneur and advertising industry technology leader with over 20 years of experience. Kevin is the co-founder and CEO of Eyeota, the global leader in audience data with more than 3.5 billion unique profiles across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

May 08, 201819 min

1017 The New Nielsen? $12m in Revenue Says, Maybe!

Peter Daboll has more than 25 years of experience in the science and business of advertising effectiveness. He has spent his career developing and implementing analytical models and testing systems to measure consumer response to advertising. As CEO of Ace Metrix, Peter has led the company in developing innovative metrics and methods for helping advertisers make better, more impactful video creative. Peter was also the CEO of Bunchball, Chief of Insights at Yahoo!, and president and CEO of comSc...

May 07, 201823 min

1016 How He Managed Launching 2 $100m+ Companies At Once

Vijay is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful businesses delivering enterprise-class solutions. Before starting Cygilant, he founded AppIQ, an application storage resource management provider acquired by Hewlett Packard in October 2005, and WebManage Technologies, a policy-driven content delivery solution provider acquired by Network Appliance in August 2000.

May 06, 201819 min

1015 How He's Using $10m In AdSpend to Power New SaaS Offering

Chris Treadaway is Founder & CEO of Polygraph Media, a Facebook Marketing Partner in Ad Technology. Chris was previously Group Product Manager of Web Strategy at Microsoft in Redmond and was also a co-founder of Stratfor. He resides in Austin with his wife Kim and daughter Margot.

May 05, 201817 min

1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR

Eric S. Yuan is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Zoom. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at WebEx, Eric was the heart and soul of the WebEx product from 1997 to 2011. Eric proudly grew the WebEx team from 10 engineers to more than 800 worldwide, and contributed to revenue growth from $0 to more tha...

May 04, 201821 min

1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018

With over 20 years growing and leading technology companies, Frank Bien built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams.. Prior to Looker, Frank was SVP of Strategy for storage vendor Virsto (acquired by VMware) and VP of Strategic Alliances at big-data pioneer Greenplum, leading their acquisition by EMC (now Pivotal). He led Product Marketing and Strategy at early scale-out data warehousing company Sensage and was VP of Solution Sales at Vignette/OpenText. Earl...

May 03, 201820 min

1012 SquareSpace CEO Tried Acquiring First, Now King of SMB Data

Dane is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology, data, and small business. He has been CEO of a dozen companies like SumAll and Squarespace, mentors of far too many others and had the pleasure of building the careers of thousands will creating billions in equity value and sometimes losing millions.

May 02, 201822 min

1011 How He Drove $1.4m in ChatBot PreSales

Travis Stephenson is a software entrepreneur and marketing coach that specializes in all things Facebook and Instagram. Travis has been a soloprenuer for 8 years and has branched out recently to start a SaaS platform called Chatmatic.

May 01, 201821 min

1010 The Boston Poker Player Turned B2B Advertiser Breaks $10m Revenue Mark

Patrick Shea started AdDaptive Intelligence with Co-Founder Kevin O'Malley in 2010 to create technology around gathering and using data to improve targeting and analytics for marketers. Outside of work Patrick is married with two young girls and likes poker, cars and philosophy.

Apr 30, 201817 min

1009 The Argument for Shutting Down and Launching With 100% Control

Justin Kline is the co-founder and COO of Markerly, an influencer marketing company focusing on influencer identification and tracking for some of the world's largest and most rapidly growing consumer brands. Markerly partners with brands and infleuncers to create original and authentic content. Influencers share this content to their social media communities to inspire interest, engagement, and to drive purchases. Check out markerly.com to learn more...

Apr 29, 201818 min

1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

Josh is founder and director of go-to-market at Outbound, customer communication technology acquired by Zendesk in May 2017. Josh challenges businesses to rethink communication with customers by centering marketing, sales and service teams on the human relationships they can build using customer data.

Apr 27, 201826 min

1006 How To Get Rich Bootstrapping to $1m in Revenue

NathanLatka.com/Patreon exclusive! Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur with a calling to build enterprise marketing software. He currently is the Co-founder and CEO of Pulse Insights, which uses innovative technology to help enterprises understand customer needs and to efficiently collect user information to deliver richly personalized experiences. Prior to Pulse Insights Jeremy founded UberTags Tag Management system to help companies instantaneously deploy marketing and analytics tags on websites. ...

Apr 26, 20183 min

1005 How She's Managing 4+ Business Models at Once

Heidi Yu is the founder and CEO of Boostinsider, one of the Silicon Valley's hottest startups that focuses on using advanced technology to help brands to boost on social media through influencer marketing including SocialBook.io, SocialSaaS.io, SocialAdwords.io, and SocialSDK.io. She is a fashionable nerd, a passionate business woman, and a serial entrepreneur. Miss Yu holds an MBA from Seattle University, and is a well-connected real-life influencer.

Apr 25, 201819 min

1004 Can sharing team size hurt your growth?

Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a leading provider of Account-Based (ABM) Advertising and Retargeting solutions for mid-to-large B2B enterprises. Mani previously founded a software business acquired by Oracle/PeopleSoft. Mani is a serial entrepreneur, industry speaker on account-based marketing, demand generation, B2B marketing and advertising, and a startup adviser.

Apr 24, 201820 min

1002 How He Makes $10m+ Speaking Every Language on Earth

"Jack is a technology early-adopter, serial entrepreneur, software patent-holder, product evangelist, and combat-decorated Air Force pilot. Before founding Smartling, he served as SVP of Product at eMusic and COO/CTO at SheSpeaks and RunTime Technologies. He also co-founded Trio Development, a software company that created the first personal information manager, which was acquired by Apple in 1993. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also studied l...

Apr 22, 201821 min
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