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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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1628 How He Used Singularity University To Get 17 Customers, $1M in ARR In 5 Months

Sean Hinton is Founder and CEO of SkyHive (www.skyhive.io), a Canadian technology company that applies machine/deep learning to discovering revolutionary efficiencies in the movement of human capital. Sean is a future of work thought leader, and passionate about applying SkyHive's technology to support the workforce's most at-risk populations.

Jan 08, 202014 minEp. 1628

1627 How He Spent $200k/mo To Build $9M ARR Workflow Automation Software

Suresh Sambandam is the Founder & CEO of OrangeScape, makers of KiSSFLOW, a disruptive, SaaS-based enterprise-level work automation and collaboration platform with more than 10,000 customers across 160 countries. He is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize automation and create immersive work experience for enterprises of all sizes.

Jan 07, 202013 minEp. 1627

1626 How He's Making $5m in ARR off $35M in GMV From B2C ECommerce Brands

Ciaran steers the ship at Kooomo HQ, has spent over 20 years growing and developing internationally focused online media and digital commerce businesses. Since taking the helm in 2016, Kooomo has made it into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for digital commerce 2017 and is now positioned to service clients in the B2C market as well as cater to the explosive growth in the B2B eCommerce space.

Jan 06, 202021 minEp. 1626

1624 Why This Founder is Totally Happy Running 2 Businesses At Once

Jack of some trades, master of a couple. I'm a builder by instinct, manager by heart, and a marketer by necessity. I love writing code, assembling teams, and measuring growth. I built Parrot QA to scratch an itch - functional testing is a headache, and customers hate bugs. There has to be a better way!

Jan 04, 202017 minEp. 1624

1623 How He Plans to Beat Facebook at Work with $90k From Friends and Family

Sean is the CEO and co-founder of Unaty. Having worked as a web designer, developer, and enterprise software consultant, he now spends his days helping community leaders inspire action and members find and follow their passion. He's always excited to talk to people passionate about building a better future!

Jan 03, 202015 minEp. 1623

1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?

Adrian Russo is a talent acquisition professional, who leverages his software development background to help organizations find talent. He is a Co-founder and Developer of RecruitLocator, a SaaS-based open-web, resume search tool. Adrian led technical recruiting at various organizations including National Institutes of Health, Discovery Communications, and Department of Defense. Adrian is featured in the upcoming Amazon Prime docufilm, "the Art of Recruiting."

Jan 02, 202018 minEp. 1622

1621 The Unique Way He Plans to Go from $312 Million to $1 Billion

Serial entrepreneur and author Brian Scudamore pioneered the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, turning a chore people avoid into an exceptional customer service experience. Then he scaled that success into three more brands, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine.

Jan 01, 202020 minEp. 1621

1620 How He's Managing 15% Monthly Churn, $250k in MRR

Dave Kearney is the founder of www.fluidui.com, a software prototyping tool that has helped over a quarter of a million product managers, entrepreneurs and product visionaries to create and communicate their ideas. He cares most about great usability, efficient product development processes and socially responsible companies.

Dec 31, 201914 minEp. 1620

1619 How He Got first 120 Customers, $10k in MRR Selling Into Industry You Wouldn't Expect

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljasonprince/ With WalletCard occupational health & safety records are easily & automatically updated to reduce the administrative burden of training management. With a collaborative digital safety record at its core: the technology eliminates manual tracking of fragmented paper records by consolidating all documentation into one cloud solution to prove due diligence. The Platform is a lost-cost solution leveraging platform-mediated growth between users ...

Dec 30, 201911 minEp. 1619

1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1

James Sturges has a strong software engineering and product design background, having led several teams in building enterprise software. He is Co-Founder and VP of Product at Audseb, focusing on building better knowledge management and support tools for employees. James is an avid golfer, adventurous traveler, and passionate problem solver.

Dec 28, 201920 minEp. 1617

1616 Why Navy Vet Joined 7 Year Old SaaS Company With No Revenue

Royal Naval Officer for 10 yrs - mission critical leadership in submarine service & gulf war. Lead operational component of transformation of FFastFill from marketcap £1.7m ISV to £106 SAAS vendor. Led EMEA transformation of Datawatch from desktop monarch vendor to full suite analytics offering. Now developing AI powered offering to transform the business users interact with IT.

Dec 27, 201912 minEp. 1616

1614 Why 100 Enterprises Pay Him $3m ARR So Employees Can Record Training Videos

Sebastian Walker is the CEO of SlidePresenter, a digital knowledge transfer software. Sebastian studied business economy and worked at major consultancies. Looking to revolutionize the internal knowledge flow for corporations globally, he founded SlidePresenter in 2011, an intuitive solution that empowers any employee to create training videos within minutes.

Dec 25, 201919 minEp. 1614

1613 Can He Build a $100M Company Selling $100k ACV Plans to So Few Customers?

Eric is the CEO of streamdata.io. He was a founding team member at Internet Way (French B2B ISP, sold to UUnet) then Radianz (Global Finance Cloud, sold to BT). He is a High Frequency Trading infrastructure expert, passionate about Fintech, IoT and Cleantech. Eric looks after 3 bozons and has worked in San Francisco, NYC, Mexico and now Paris.

Dec 24, 201915 minEp. 1613

1611 The Mobile Testing App Starbucks Uses Passes $6m in ARR, Bootstrapped

I have been working in enterprise IT for more than two decades. For the last 10 years I moved to entrepreneurial side and brought a talented team together to build Netmera to revolutionalize mobile app engagement, campaigning and communications. We are still working hard to expand Netmera into other regions and reach many apps while we currently touch more than 150 million app users monthly.

Dec 22, 201913 minEp. 1611

1610 How This Founding Team of 2 Peacefully Removed 3rd CoFounder

During college: 24 hackathons, 200 job applications, 0 callbacks - made a recruiting "hack". VC firm awarded grant + we raised preseed. 1.5 years, no traction, pivoted to video interviewing platform from pilot feedback. Closed paying clients + won grant w/ angel match within 2 months, focused on getting to 10k MRR ASAP.

Dec 21, 201914 minEp. 1610

1609 How This MarTech Tool Got First 8 Customers , $40k in Monthly Revenue

Founder and CEO Tal Zohar has successful experience in developing 4 tech businesses, with +$100M exit, one unicorn IPO in NYSE. He also established the AI division at a FTSE250 Fintech enterprise, valued $300M by Barclays, and was member of management and led digital transformation at the London Stock exchange.

Dec 20, 201914 minEp. 1609

1608 How He's Raising $1.5m on $6m Pre With $16k in MRR

Launched in 2016, Rheaply Asset Exchange Manager is the easiest way that professionals share resources with anyone in their industry. By connecting leading research institutions, Fortune 500 companies, startups, school systems, nonprofits, and organizations in between, Rheaply is creating a shared economy for innovation.

Dec 19, 201912 minEp. 1608

1607 Why She Said No To Vista Equity Despite $10m in ARR

Lauren is Founder of iVvy, a multi-award winning Technology company providing enterprise software to the Events industry. Since its 2009 launch, Lauren has overseen iVvy's continued growth and global expansion to APAC, Europe and North America, offering the world's first real-time marketplace with live availability for function space and suppliers.

Dec 18, 201919 minEp. 1607

1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR

With 25 plus years of experience in building, designing and implementing strategic marketing programs I am a firm believer in asking "why" and challenging industry norms. Throughout my career, I have been fortunate to have worked with several great companies in the technology, consumer product, automotive, hospitality and entertainment sectors each with a unique set of demands and needs. I have taken this collective experience into my role as CEO with AislePlanner, where my focus has been on cre...

Dec 17, 201918 minEp. 1606

1603 How She Used a Tracking Watch To Get Her First 1000 Customers, $20k MRR

Karen Cantwell is a born innovator. In 2014 she launched TicTocTrack® - the first GPS smart watch globally for children, following up with a bespoke software-monitoring platform. That platform now hosts multiple GPS devices providing one platform for the safety of all the family. Karen hold's a MBA from QUT.

Dec 14, 201912 minEp. 1603

1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It

Sai Krishna is often described as an accidental entrepreneur. As an engineering undergrad, Sai built his first startup in the education technology space to power thousands of students to better use tablet PCs. Since then, he's founded, invested and mentored startups all through, particularly in the technology space. He is also an alumnus of stanford university graduate school of business, and the founder of scapic, a cloud based virtual and augmented reality content platform helping businesses a...

Dec 12, 201917 minEp. 1601

1600 He Makes His Team Only Work 4 Days A Week Even If You Think Its Wrong

Benjamin Ellis has worked with companies including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks during their fastest periods of growth. He is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has worked at the cutting edge of technology over three decades and is passionate about what technology can achieve, particularly at the intersection of people, data and software.

Dec 11, 201917 minEp. 1600

1599 How to Spin a Company Out and Run It Yourself, Even if You Have No Control To Start

Bohumil studied Innovation and Operation Management in Copenhagen. He went on to work at West Virginia University Innovation center, where he was in charge of their marketing strategy. In March 2016, he returned to Slovakia, where he got an offer to join the team at Triad Advertising and take over their internal software Kontentino. After just 2 years, he and his team were able to get Kontentino into more than 800 agencies and brands around the world--Today, the software is used by famous brands...

Dec 10, 20199 minEp. 1599
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