SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR

2x founder with 2 successful exits. Head of Growth for SureSwift Capital. Moonlighting as the CEO of Checkli at night.

Doka Image Editor SDK Sells $120k Licenses

Indie product developer living on a 2D plane people call The Netherlands. Dad of two. On a journey to support my family by building and selling highly interactive web components.

FlyPlugins Hits $500k/yr For Wordpress Addons

I worked in I.T. for 12 years before I got the entrepreneurial bug and jumped ship to run my WordPress plugin business full time. I'm happily married, with 3 boys and I love to serve in my church.

StockAlarm Secretly Used By Traders For Alerts

Stock Alarm was born out of our need for reliable stock alerts. Stock Alarm provides stock market alerts to thousands of traders every day through phone calls, text messages, push notifications, and emails. We package complex signals into an intuitive and easy to use UI.

XFusion Hits $20k/mo Helping You Scale Your Support Team

Jim and I decided to start a technical support agency after we realized how difficult it was to find & hire competent agents for our own businesses. Once we've "cracked the code", we realized many SaaS founders & owners haven't and we wanted to solve that problem for them.

Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR

Am the founder of Castos. We are a fully remote team remaking how podcasters create great shows, grow their audiences, and further their brands.

AdGreetz Hits $5.5m in Revenue Customizing Outbound Marketing For Enterprises

Eric Frankel is the CEO/Founder of AdGreetz, the industry's leading video personalization tech platform that is disrupting the $628b advertising marketplace by empowering brands to easily revolutionize their marketing, build stronger relationships with customers and increase engagement 5X-7X and activation 2X-3X by producing and deploying thousands (or even millions) of hyper-personalized, relevant, data-driven, video and display ads and messages (versus a generic, much less-activating version),...

Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently

Chris Buttenham is the founder and CEO of Obie, a company changing the way organizations access and manage their collective knowledge. Chris got into the startup space magically. No really, he performed magic professionally at a young age and gravitated towards digital marketing to promote himself. By the age of 15 Chris registered his first business, a digital agency that provided marketing and design services for other entertainers and small businesses. Chris is a self-proclaimed serial entrep...

Prentus Founder Spent $90k on Failed Project Before Launching New Recruiting Tool During COVID

Rod is Founder & CEO at Prentus where he matches startups with job-ready tech interns in as little as 7 days and runs a community with 165+ bootcamp graduates. He is also a part-time Data Science Mentor at Thinkful. Previously, he founded Dananza, an influencer marketplace for local businesses.

VidLive.co Doubles from Covid, Livestreaming Tool, 1 man team

Shawn North, founder and creator of VidLive, a mico-saas that helps people auto-embed Facebook Live video on their web pages. In addition to working on VidLive, he also works full time as a developer for a major auto manufacturer.

RiteKit 431k Email List, Conversions Tough?

We started with RiteTag: hashtags from text and from images, and the first such tool that rides in any social media marketer's workflow by browser extension and mobile app. RiteKit now provides everything needed to grow an organic, unpaid social audience and soft-sell to them as you do it.

NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy

My name is Stanislav Dimitrov (Stan), and I'm one of the founders of Night Eye — the dark mode browser extension that works on nearly any website. I finished my Master's in Marketing in 2014 and headed back home to join the family business: a printing house. The family business was and still is a big part of my life, but tech, in general, has always fascinated me and I wanted to start a side venture. Luckily, a couple of months after I came home, I met the current co-founders of Night Eye. We we...

VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue

8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.

Albert Santalo is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur experienced in building high growth, venture-backed technology companies. He is the founder and CEO of 8base and formerly founded CareCloud and Avisena.

Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

CEO and cofounder of trend.io born and raised in Puerto Rico living in Denver, CO.

Jiga3d Connects Engineers to Manufacturers, 30 Transactions at $2k each so Far

Software engineer by trade, designer by heart and entrepreneur in soul. Founded and bootstrapped Spontix until it's M&A, and served as a software R&D team leader in multiple positions.

KoalaRank Content Marketing System Has 5 Customers Paying $900/mo

Coming from the world of content writing, I've had many opportunities to write for interesting companies who didn't know how to strategize their content marketing efforts. That's when I decided to make the switch.

Edusign Launches During COVID, Hits $10k MRR, 300 Customers for Signing Tool

Elliot Boucher is the co-founder of Edusign, a SaaS that makes attendance sheets management simple online and offine. He is also the founder of Ecommerce RTM, former Capgemini consultant and best seller of online courses on Udemy.

Visably Helps You Manage Search Exposure, $700k Raised, Pre-Revenue, Launch Soon

As an owner and principal of a PR agency for over a decade, Chris has thoroughly explored the intersection of PR and search engine strategy. Chris' newest venture, "Visably," is a new SaaS software the identifies a brand's footprint in search. Chris is passionate about helping brands reach their needle-in-the-haystack customer and evangelizing multi-channel search strategy.

RockContent 2x To $25m in Last 12 Months, Helping 2000 Customers Scale Content

Diego Gomes is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Rock Content a SaaS Blogger/Researcher/Evangelist. Rock is the among the fastest-growing SaaS companies and a global leader in Content Marketing Solutions. Diego is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, Angel Investor and in his spare time he blogs at http://saasholic.com ;)

JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business market with deep experience in B2B high velocity new customer acquisition. As CEO of JazzHR, Lamson is responsible for JazzHR's strategic direction, company performance, day-to-day business operations, and serves as a support center for our revenue teams.

Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?

Madwire® is a technology company that provides business management and marketing software and services for SMBs and franchises. Madwire® was founded in 2009 with the mission of helping small businesses grow and their local communities glow.

Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles

Sabba Keynejad is the co-founder and CEO of VEED an [online video editing](http://veed.io/) platform. Together with his co-founder Tim, they bootstrapped VEED from 0-1M ARR in its the first 12 months of operating. VEED is a fully-fledged collaborative video editing used by many influencers, coaches and business for [adding subtitles](https://www.veed.io/add-subtitles-video), [captions](https://www.veed.io/add-captions-video), [text](https://www.veed.io/add-text-to-video), [merging videos](https:...

Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool

Amit Bendov is the co-founder and CEO of Gong.io, the # 1 Revenue Intelligence platform for sales. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in hyper-growth enterprise software startups managing product, marketing, and sales for global corporations. Prior to founding Gong.io, Amit was CEO of SiSense and CMO of Panaya.

NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

I'm a self-taught developer and entrepreneur from Scotland. I launched No CS Degree a year ago to inspire people to learn coding. It features 90 interviews with developers that taught themselves coding or learned at bootcamps. I also have a jobs board, a bootcamp index and an imposter syndrome book.

Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Pavel is a serial entrepreneur from Moscow, Russia. Launched e-commerce projects, lifestyle app. Founded Directual in 2014, when there was no such terms as low-coding or no-coding. But there was an idea—to let people create complex digital products as easily as possible. Before Spring 2020 Directual worked with enterprise clients, but in April 2020 Directual went public and offered SaaS—the low-code platform for the mass market.

Ceptinel FinTech Founder Spent $700k, Now Has $6k in MRR, Whats Next?

Miguel Fuentes Buchholtz has 12 years of Software Engineering experience and 6 as Entrepreneur, founding Variacode (ITaaS), cofounding tuten.cl (an "uber" for last mile operation optimization SaaS for big companies) and Ceptinel, a SaaS RegTech that helps financial institution fight corruption, money laundering and fraud. Also working as advisor for local Chilean Startups OrionX (Cryptocurrency exchange), Nexoabogados.cl (attorney marketplace) and Banca.me (online financial services)

Djaodjin Gets Customers from Github, $6k in MRR, Raising $500k on $1m Valuation?

I started a video game studio, a micro-processor company, and built 2 SaaS businesses before DjaoDjin. If you believe a couple semiconductor patents I am quite an engineer though some people remember me as a group fitness instructor. Married with children, my ambition is to help people run sustainable micro-businesses.

Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades

Ben is a personal finance nerd turned software developer. He left his first job out of college after 6 months to launch Wingman, a trade tracker for options traders. Two years later, he is running it part-time and leads product as a co-founder at The TIE, a fintech data business.

WebHookRelay DevOps Tool Hits $120k Revenue, 1 person team, bootstrapped

Entrepreneur, full-stack engineer with extensive experience in compute infrastructure, networks, Kubernetes and developer tooling. Spent last five years working between infrastructure projects (networks, storage), building data science/ML platform and starting a new project for public transport sector.