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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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LivingSecurity.com: Guess What Multiple They're Raising $5m Series A At

Ashely Rose is the CEO of Living Security, where she helps companies reduce risk by making security awareness engaging and quantifiable. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

May 31, 202021 minEp. 1772

BoomTime.com: Hit $2.8m in Revenues, First 100 Customers From Linkedin

His name is Bill Bice, serial entrepreneur since age 14. He is passionate about enabling smaller businesses to more successfully compete with their larger competitors through effective marketing. Through the years, Bill has built and invested in over 25 companies but kept finding the same flaws in marketing strategies so, a programmer at heart, he founded Boomtime, a company that tackles marketing as a technology problem If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This help...

May 30, 202018 minEp. 1771

Refersion.com: Bootstrapped SaaS Doing $1.5m in Cash Flow

Shibo Xu is the co-founder of Refersion and grew the company from the two co-founders to a leading SaaS platform serving over 7000 merchants across two offices. Before Refersion, Shibo was a technology consultant partnering with Fortune 500 enterprises to concept and build digital products. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

May 29, 202028 minEp. 1770

How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp

Ryan Kulp is a marketer and self-taught developer, best known as founder of Fomo.com. He and his wife buy and grow small companies together at their Micro PE fund, Fork Equity (forkequity.com). Ryan has been traveling full-time for 2 years and writes a data-driven travel blog at rickshawlabs.com. On this episode we discuss how he finds companies to buy, why he's ok not getting huge, and how he ensures profitability. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me ...

May 28, 202032 minEp. 1769

PushPress.com Hits 1,000 Gym Customers Paying $140 Each

Dan Uyemura is the CEO of PushPress.com, a tool that helps boutique gyms grow. Dan shares why he took a $500k loan from the SBA to start the company. Why why he spent $100k in 2010 to open his own gym. How he grew to $1.6m in revenue run rate, up 63% from 2019. If you enjoy todays content, please leave a review. It helps me get hard-to-reach guests! To get more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE and visit GetLatka.com

May 27, 202012 minEp. 1768

RunBolt.com: $800k Revenue, Construction Scheduling Tool

RunBolt founder Sam Knight joins me today and talks about he he spun a construction scheduling tool out of it's parent company. We talk about cap table structure, his first sales hire and setting $30,000 quota. How does Sam get 50% of new customers to pay annually up front? How'd he get his first 50 customers? What's his plan to reduce churn? We discuss each of these items. To get more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE and visit GetLatka.com

May 26, 202015 minEp. 1767

1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition "

Matt Dion CEO of Mintent, is a technology industry veteran with 24 years of experience ushering early stage companies through the tricky early adopter and early majority market phases.

May 24, 202017 minEp. 1765

1763 $4m ARR Company Burned $1.7m Last Year, Good or Bad?

Maciej Zawadziński – CEO of Piwik PRO and Clearcode; analytics and advertising technology expert; entrepreneur and startup founder. Maciej is an expert in analytics and advertising technology and founder of several successful companies. He has led Clearcode to its position as a leading software house building custom advertising and marketing technology and in 2013 founded Piwik PRO, a privacy-compliant analytics platform. He advocates for better data privacy rights as a supporting expert at the ...

May 22, 202016 minEp. 1763

1762 How Convertri Used Affiliates To Hit $1m ARR, $700k Profit

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.

May 21, 202021 minEp. 1762

1760 $20m To Build MVP: Does Carbonite Founder Have Another Billion Dollar Idea?

David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company that delivers fast, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage. Prior to Wasabi, David co-founded Carbonite, one of the world's leading cloud backup companies. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 years.

May 19, 202025 minEp. 1760

1759 Founder Hit $1.3m ARR During COVID Getting Customers on 3 Year Contracts, How?!

Karnell is a serial entrepreneur and has founded 4 companies, including one which he scaled to more than $100M in gross revenue. He has significant business expertise in operating and scaling digital platforms and has helped run significant operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. Presently, Karnell is the President and COO of Truelytics.

May 18, 202022 minEp. 1759

1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer

Chris Savage is the co-founder and CEO of Wistia, a web-based software solution that helps marketers turn viewers into brand advocates to grow their businesses. After graduating from Brown University, Chris and his co-founder Brendan Schwartz, started Wistia in Brendan's living room in 2006. They founded the company with the goal of helping businesses effectively market their products or services more creatively through video. Recently, Savage and Schwartz turned down an offer to sell Wistia and...

May 16, 202031 minEp. 1757

1756 "Ripl Hits $10m ARR Helping 70k SMB's Create Video Content "

Clay is the CEO at Ripl, a marketing software company used by millions of small business and independent marketers worldwide. Clay has spent most of his career at the intersection of software, marketing, and emerging media. He lives in Seattle and rides his bike in the rain.

May 15, 202024 minEp. 1756

1755 How He Got 7,500 Registered For Virtual Event During Lock Down

Vasil is a growth marketing and startup event entrepreneur, who has produced over 500 in-person and virtual events, as well as built a 90K+ network of tech entrepreneurs and marketers. He's the founder of Growth Marketing Conference, one of the leading growth marketing events in the industry, and he's the CEO of startup professional network Startup Socials (as seen in Forbes). He's worked with big brands like IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, and Delta Airlines, high growth startups such as Intercom, Panth...

May 14, 202019 minEp. 1755

1754 Parker Conrad Gave Rippling CTO 40%, Kept 60%, 2,000 Customers "$36m ARR Not Far Off"

Prasanna Sankar is the co-founder and CTO of Rippling, where he's scaling the engineering team across two continents. Previously he was Director of Engineering at Zenefits, and co-founder and CTO of LikeALittle, a social media app that attracted two million users in six weeks. Prasanna is a former competitive programmer and was ranked #1 in India on TopCoder. Today he codes for fun, and lives in the Bay Area with his wife and son.

May 13, 202025 minEp. 1754

1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "

Naeem is a serial entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of TeleSense. Naeem is 7X startup entrepreneur and 5X CEO with successful exists. He is deeply ingrained in the Silicon Valley ecosystem and frequently speaks about innovation and entrepreneurship. Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship and he teaches entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and Northeastern University. He has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota. More about him at www.NaeemZafar.c...

May 12, 202023 minEp. 1753

1752 How $4m ARR CEO Uses $2m in Revenue Based Debt to Scale

Co-founding CTO, now CEO of MarketMuse. Former VC Associate at OpenView Partners, Big Data focus. Associate, Analytics practice within Diamond Management & Technology Consultants (now PWC Diamond Advisory). Michigan Ross BBA '07. Computer Science, Washtenaw Community College '03. Born in Debrecen, Hungary.

May 11, 202020 minEp. 1752

1751 SendBird Messaging SDK Sitting on $100m Cash, $20m in ARR

John S. Kim is the Co​founder and CEO of SendBird (Y Combinator W16), a B2B startup providing a messaging solution for enterprises. The platform currently serves tens of millions of monthly active users and many of the best-known logos around the world, like Yahoo! Sports, GO-JEK, Hinge and one of the most active websites in the world. John is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in the messaging space. Little known about John is that he was Korea's no.1 pro-gamer for Unreal Tournament.

May 10, 202024 minEp. 1749

1750 With $12m in ARR Yoast CEO Says Wordpress Couldn't Afford to Acquire

Joost de Valk is a web developer, SEO and open source fanatic from The Netherlands. He is the founder and CEO of Yoast, which provides software and training for website optimization i.e. SEO. Yoast SEO, Yoast's main software product, currently runs on over 10 million WordPress websites.

May 09, 202019 minEp. 1750

1749 How He Hit $9m Revenues Paying Resellers 24% Kickbacks

A successful entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record, Yuryi was previously CEO and founder of YMF, a leading financial software company with 300 employees that was later sold to TOTVS. A well respected authority in the Brazilian technology sector, Yuryi is often called upon to advise firms and individuals on IT best practice and solutions. Before founding YMF, Yuryi spent 8 years in the Investment Bank GARANTIA as a Trader and Portfolio Manager.

May 08, 202012 minEp. 1749

1747 How Subsidary Hit $420k MRR helping Subscription Companies Scale

Kurt has served as CEO of Ubersmith since 2014 and Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners since 2017. Previously, he helped build and scale three startups - Parallels, Worklight (acquired by IBM) and MongoDB (IPO) - into companies worth $6 billion. Earlier, Kurt was a Lead Product Manager at Microsoft.

May 06, 202013 minEp. 1747

1746 Infusionsoft Employee #8 Launches New Venture, Passes $175k in MRR, 2500 SMB Customers

Dave Lee is a marketing automation pioneer, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. He's the CEO of PlusThis, the #1 campaign toolkit for marketing automation users. Dave has been featured on NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox television affiliates speaking on marketing automation and small business success. Outside of work, he's usually skiing, kitesurfing, wakesurfing or creating amazing experiences with his wife and three boys.

May 05, 202015 minEp. 1746

1745 I wouldn't sell for 3x, CEO passes $1m in ARR

Hates to go to, and to go home from parties. Loves skiing and the beer that comes with it. Love travelling with my family and friends. Background in small tech companies, advertising companies, and leadership training. Spiritual but not religious. Optimist and self-critical. Co-founded Learnifier but change how learning happens. Product guy with a passion for aesthetics and ease-of-use.

May 04, 202014 minEp. 1745
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