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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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1478 The Art of the Start: First $1k in MRR and How He Did It

Karl has helped build a few start-up software SaaS Apps and info products, eCom related SaaS, a Membership software and more. Currently, Karl is building two software and training programs. SegMateApp.com a chatbot and messenger marketing platform and Impulsely.com an eCom Funnel building application.

Aug 11, 201916 minEp. 1478

1475 If Clearbit and Hubspot Had a Baby...

Wart Fransen is the CEO of an Amsterdam based company called LeadBoxer and oversees general operations & business. He also is the product owner and planning the roadmap for LeadBoxers future. Prior to LeadBoxer, Wart was co-founder and CTO for Opentracker, a web analytics company specialised in tracking individuals and behaviour.

Aug 08, 201916 minEp. 1475

1474 Advantages of IoT+SaaS with $2.5m Revenue CEO of Senorberg

Michael von Roeder works both as entrepreneur and corporate executive. Currently he serves as CEO of Sensorberg, a SaaS IoT company. As the founder and investor of various start-ups in the areas of Mobile, Energy and FinTech, he is firmly anchored in Berlin and the international founding scene. Prior to his involvement with Sensorberg, he gained his industrial and management experience at Vattenfall and Vodafone. At Vodafone he led the global user experience function in London, Tokyo and Düsseld...

Aug 07, 201917 minEp. 1474

1473 How to Raise $500k From Early Channel Partners To Break $20k/mo in MRR

Brennan Dunn is the founder of Double Your Freelancing and helps teach over 50,000 freelancers and agencies how to earn more money and work with better clients. He's also the co-founder of RightMessage, a software company that helps bring on-site personalization to the masses.

Aug 06, 201916 minEp. 1473

1472 How She Raised Her Own $90m Fund at 29 Years Old

Lu Zhang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund. In 2017, Lu was awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 as a Featured Honoree in the VC category. In the same year, she was selected as Town & Country 50 New Modern Swans. Recently, Lu was awarded as the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Davos. Prior to starting Fusion Fund, Lu was the Founder and CEO of a medical device company for the early diagnosis of Type II diabetes (acq 2012). She is an advisor and mentor to several in...

Aug 05, 201916 minEp. 1472

1471 How to Use a $750K "Affiliate Launch Model" To Juice Your SaaS Offering

Andy Fletcher is a serial entrepreneur now working on his 3rd company. He has a background in development and a Masters degree in Computer Science but fell in love with digital marketing about a decade ago. This makes martech SaaS pretty much the perfect place for him to be.

Aug 04, 201918 minEp. 1471

1470 He Went from $0 to $8k MRR in 6 Months for Employee Management Tool

I'm graduated in information technology management and I've been working with product development in the last 12 years. In the last four years I was focused to improve management and leadership skills where I found the gap of tools to help managers and HR being more efficient and do a better job.

Aug 03, 201911 minEp. 1470

1468 How Moat Picked $100k ACV, Grew to $50M+ ARR, Exited to Oracle for "$850M"

Jonah Goodhart is Senior Vice President, Oracle Data Cloud. Jonah was the Co-Founder and CEO of Moat, which was acquired by Oracle in April 2017. Jonah was the Founding Investor and Board Member of Right Media (acquired by Yahoo!), Founding Partner of WGI Group, and Co-Founder of Billions.org. Ernst & Young named him Entrepreneur Of The Year 2017 New York in the category of Digital Media. Jonah was also a member of Mayor Bloomberg's Council on Technology and Innovation.

Aug 01, 201928 minEp. 1468

1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise

Garin Hess is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple software companies, industry conferences, and a non-profit organization. He is currently the founder and CEO of Consensus, a B2B demo automation platform. He enjoys reading history, mountain biking, choir conducting, and spending time with his wife and three children.

Jul 30, 201923 minEp. 1466

1465 She Helps Teams Plan Social Media Content, $3.5k in MRR

Born in a family of hustlers, Xenia never had the chance to escape the fate of being an entrepreneur. So at only 20 y.o. she started her first company, a digital marketing agency. She was shocked that in a world transformed by social media technology, brands and agencies were still working like in the MadMen era - buried in meetings, excels, powerpoints and endless email threads. In 2016 she and her co-founders started Planable to help people behind brands work together in a better way. Today, m...

Jul 29, 201916 minEp. 1465

1464 GDPR Compliant Analytics Hits $3.6M in ARR, Raising Soon

Maciej is a technically skilled leader, technology enthusiast and entrepreneur. CEO at Piwik PRO - GDPR compliant analytics and marketing platform for enterprises and Clearcode - world's leading software house specializing in building custom advertising and marketing technology (AdTech/MarTech).

Jul 28, 201920 minEp. 1464

1463 He's Wealthfront, Robinhood, Betterment Worst Nightmare helping Banks retain deposits

CEO and co-founder of Segmint, an innovative financial technology company that empowers financial institutions and financial technology providers to easily understand and leverage data, interact with customers and measure results. Rob has been awarded 7 U.S. and international patents for Segmint. Rob is also the founder of WiredViews, a digital marketing agency.

Jul 27, 201922 minEp. 1463

1462 With $10m in TTM Revenues, Are You Missing Out on Opt-In Advertising?

Joe is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Opt-Intelligence. Since co-founding Opt-Intelligence in 2003 Joe has served as a thought leader and expert in the opt-in advertising space. Prior to Opt-Intelligence Joe served as Vice President of Online Services at Cross Media Marketing. He got his start in 1998 as co-founder and President of CouponSoup, a company dedicated to putting coupons for local businesses online. Joe received a BA in Psychology from Boston College.

Jul 26, 201918 minEp. 1462

1461 Does Your CS Team Carry a Quota? $8M in ARR on $2.5M Raised Roadmunk CEO Explains

Latif Nanji is the co-founder and CEO of Roadmunk, a product roadmapping platform that enables clients such as The Coca-Cola Company, Citibank, MasterCard and Adobe to visualize and collaborate on strategic plans. Latif's entrepreneurial chops extend beyond Roadmunk. He co-founded Pragmatic CEO, a Toronto meetup for tech entrepreneurs, and Pokerspace.com, an online social network for poker players. Latif's background spans all things startup: from leadership and sales to product management and d...

Jul 25, 201923 minEp. 1461

1460 Social Listening Tool Breaks $22M in ARR Responding to RFP's

CEO of Linkfluence, a SaaS platform that turns social data into valuable insights for global brands, using AI and the human expertise from 100+ data scientists and analysts. Co-founder & CEO of Scoop.it, a web content monitoring SaaS platform acquired by Linkfluence. Entrepreneur since 2000: Musiwave (first mobile music platform, acquired by Microsoft), Goojet (pre-iPhone mobile widget platform). Startup advisor and investor: Tedemis (email retargeting, acquired by Criteo), The Refiners, Imp...

Jul 24, 201919 minEp. 1460

1458 Why He's Aiming for 20% FCF+Growth As $30M ARR Private Equity Owned Company

With more than 20 years of technology leadership experience, Steven is the CEO of Logi Analytics. Prior to this role, Steven served as both COO and CPO at Logi, where he led the sales, product, engineering, marketing, and customer success teams. Prior to Logi, he was a founding partner of OnDemandIQ, a Hosted Business Intelligence solution, and a practice manager at leading web technology company Proxicom.

Jul 22, 201930 minEp. 1458

1457 eLearning Company For Internal Teams in Kentucky Hits 1000 Customers, $600k MRR

Don Weobong is founder and president of Telania, a technology software-as-a-service company based in Louisville, Kentucky. Telania specializes in helping organizations solve tough challenges through e-learning technology, leaves of absence management solutions, and sales channel management. Premier products include eLeaP, CaptureLeave, PRMDeals, and Azimio.

Jul 21, 201918 minEp. 1457

1456 Hyper Secure CRM Tool Passes $10M in ARR

Jody has been CEO of Introhive since it was founded 7 years ago. Jody is a frequent blogger and speaker on topics of sales acceleration, especially among enterprises.

Jul 20, 201923 minEp. 1456

1454 How This Intercom, Drift Competitor Is Winning in India

Gaurav is founder and CEO of Verloop.io, a conversational sales and marketing automation platform. Gaurav started coding when he was 11 and has built 2 businesses before. One of them was acquired while the other was unsuccessful.

Jul 18, 201918 minEp. 1454

1453 How This Event App Bootstrapped to $1M in ARR

Co-founder and CEO of MeetApp. Started out as an Accenture consultant, went on to be a CIO in the Nordics at the media/tech company Cision. Quit 2012 to start MeetApp and other business full time. Since 2015 100% focus on MeetApp

Jul 17, 201916 minEp. 1453

1452 Retail SaaS Solution Pases $4M ARR, Goal to Reduce Poverty Levels

One of North America's preeminent authorities on artificial intelligence, Gary has over 25 years' experience working with leading global corporations to deliver revenue and profit growth. He founded Daisy Intelligence in 2003 bringing autonomous machine intelligence to clients in retail, insurance and healthcare. Daisy Intelligence, headquartered in the Greater Toronto Area operates an applied artificial intelligence (A.I.) software-as-a-service (SaaS) business delivering operational corporate d...

Jul 16, 201918 minEp. 1452

1451 Spanish Speaking Verticalized ChatBot Company Closing $10k/mo+ Deals

Pablo lived in the United States for 10 years before returning to Mexico City to pursue a bachelor's in economics. Before founding Gus, Pablo participated in the management of a B2B sales team that was responsible for acquiring more than USD 2 million in ARR. In 2015 Pablo Co-founded Gus, an AI company that works with clients like Santander, Amercian Express, Cabify and 30 others to automate customer service and improve customer experience. Gus has been selected as the Diamond prize winner of Ma...

Jul 15, 201917 minEp. 1451

1450 20k Customers and $1m in ARR Event Management Company Started as Wife Project

Seth lives in Southern Utah, where he has been hard-wired to the web design and development industry since 2001. In 2009, Seth launched his first WordPress plugin, then in 2011, he quit his full-time job to focus on building a business around the plugin, which now powers over 60,000 ticketing websites.

Jul 14, 201918 minEp. 1450

1449 How Dad of 3 Manages Life and $600K ARR Business

Ryan O'Donnell lives at the top of the funnel ever since he landed at Yahoo via acquisition in 2007. Ryan co-founded Replyify.com to automate cold emails and follow-ups because other solutions on the market were either glorified 'mail merge' apps or too cumbersome to work with.

Jul 13, 201920 minEp. 1449
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