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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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Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt. Founded in 2012, Rokt makes e-commerce smarter, faster and better. Rokt uses real time data and decisioning to deliver the next best action for each person in each Transaction Moment™. Rokt's e-commerce partners experience up to 2x profitability while building customer loyalty and engagement. Prior to Rokt, Bruce was Group CEO of low fares airline Jetstar where he put together the original business case and then spent 10 years buildi...

Mar 22, 202120 minEp. 2067

He Sold 0.7% For $50k With $100k ARR ($7m Valuation). Mistake?

🙏 - God First 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦- Husband and Father of twin boys 📈- Entrepreneurial business owner for 23 years 🤝 - 21 years of business networking 👨‍💻 - Franchise Social Media Specialist 💫 - Motivation, Education, Inspiration! Assisting people to make the most of their talents will benefit not only them, but your business too. There are no limits with the right motivation. https://ese.md/exihf

Mar 21, 202117 minEp. 2066

What a 440 Person Amazon Community Looks Like (and its $1m+ in Revenue)

Eugene Khayman founded his first brand, Eparé, in 2012 to share his joy of cooking & entertaining. As Eparé grew, Eugene became involved with an organization called Million Dollar Sellers (MDS), an elite community of over 400 entrepreneurs who, collectively, generate more than 4 Billion dollars annually on the Amazon platform. From being a founding member to pioneering MDS conferences, Eugene is now the organization's COO evangelizing successful MDS businesses while still growing Eparé &...

Mar 19, 202120 minEp. 2064

1,000 Schools Pay them $2m for This Unique Tool

Tom is the President of Vived Learning. He brings a wealth of knowledge about 3D from healthcare, marketing, and technology industry. He loves learning and finding new ways to engage learners to improve learning outcomes.

Mar 17, 202115 minEp. 2062

Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback

Maury Blackman has 20+ years experience leading mission-driven, high-growth tech companies that make an impact by connecting communities and providing a more transparent world. In 2016, EY named him Northern California's Entrepreneur of the Year for his work as Accela's Chairman & CEO. In 2018 Maury took the helm at Premise Data, a San Francisco company operating a software platform for empowering the world's highest impact institutions and companies to track and comprehend ground truth....

Mar 15, 202124 minEp. 2060

They Refinanced $250m in Auto Loans Last Year, Make Money 3 Ways

Kevin Bennett is the CEO of MotoRefi, a mission-driven fintech startup revolutionizing consumers' financial relationships with their cars. An experienced CEO, Kevin has spent over 10 years launching and leading startups from early to late stage. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia, a JD from Georgetown University, and a BA from Brown University.

Mar 14, 202123 minEp. 2059

25m Wordpress Plugin Downloads, Now Raising $3m for SaaS Product

A technology and WordPress person turned into CEO. I envision AI automation making the efforts of web developers more effective and boosting business growth. Since childhood I loved studying science and math. Later it turned into being a professional researcher, an astrophysicist. But at some point in my life, I came back from academy to industry and then went deep into WordPress and web development. I enjoyed working with talented engineers building plugins and themes for WordPress, and helping...

Mar 12, 202118 minEp. 2057

Events.com Should Have Been Hopin, Can They Acquire Their Way Back To Top?

Co-Founder & CEO Events.com, Co-Founder: Active.com, Former Chairman & Owner: Triathlete Magazine, TEDx Producer, Chairman: La Jolla Foundation. Co-Founder of active.com (The Active Network). Co-Founder, CEO, ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) Active went public before selling: Vista (1.05 billion), subsequently sold several divisions: Global Payments (1.2 billion) 22X Ironman triathlete.

Mar 11, 202122 minEp. 2056

Epicor Targets $1b Run Rate, 50% Pure SaaS. $300m SaaS ARR Today.

Steve Murphy joined Epicor Software Corporation as Chief Executive Officer in October 2017, bringing over 20 years of technology industry executive management experience to the role. As CEO, Murphy is responsible for providing a long-term strategic vision for the company—with a focus on customer experience and delivering innovative products, services and support that drive business growth.

Mar 10, 202121 minEp. 2055

$1m Podcast Agency Launches Booking Software

Tony has grown over 10,000 small businesses and a dozen Fortune 500 companies, including ADP, Ford, and AutoNation and became the Google Partner of the Year. Later, Tony returned to his entrepreneurship roots to bring the strategy, tactics and resources normally reserved for large enterprises to small businesses. He now focused making podcast profitable for hosts and guests with Castocity.

Mar 09, 202115 minEp. 2054

Pet Land Riches! 60% Profit Margins on $100m SaaS Fintech Play

A 20 year veteran in the pet retail space and serial entrepreneur. I own 4 retail pet locations, a marketing company Social Network MD, a finance company Financing Your Way and a SaaS business FormPiper. I thrive on identifying the problem and solving it and helping retailers Drive Success in their businesses.

Mar 08, 202115 minEp. 2053

Clik.ai Raising $6m on $18m for Fintech Underwriting Tool

I am Parag Goswami, Co-Founder and CEO of Clik.ai. I began my tech career as a software engineer at iTrust Financial Advisors. I later founded HouseThat.in and Integrand Analytics. HouseThat.in was the first online property listing website that generated $10 million+ in property sales in two years. Integrand Analytics was a leading CRE focused knowledge processing outsourcing firm that supported $7 billion+ in loan and investment transactions across the globe between 2013-2018. After this, I fou...

Mar 06, 202113 minEp. 2051

Real Estate Tool Loses $3.6m During COVID, Now Recovered to $10m Run Rate

Jimmy Mackin is the CEO of Curaytor, a full-service digital marketing company focused on helping listing agents get more listings. In 7 years, Curaytor has grown to over $10 million in annual recurring revenue and has been featured in Forbes, Inc, The Huffington Post, USA Today, and American Express Open Forum. In 2019, Jimmy co-authored Exactly What to Say For Real Estate Agents, a bestselling book designed to help real estate agents with the most common, critical, and difficult questions they ...

Mar 05, 202121 minEp. 2050

Is This The Creator of Bitcoin? Crypto Fund Thinks So.

Focus: Managing Partner at Unbounded Capital - investing in the Bitcoin (BSV) ecosystem. Unbounded envisions businesses leveraging Bitcoin playing a predominant role in shaping how people interact with and use the internet in the coming decades, and are working to help entrepreneurs achieve that vision. Founder of EasyPoint, Trumpet Player and Composer, Poker Enthusiast

Mar 04, 202117 minEp. 2049

He's Spent $200k+ on MVP, How He Plans To Get First Customers

Founder of 3 (1 angel/PFE backed, 2 bootstrapped). Retired financial advisor, turned FA coach (saving athletes from blowing their dough). After +20,000 R&D hours, I've developed a SaaS referral app (CPAs/Attorneys/FAs/Realtors-only). My virgin Saas launch. Scared AND PUMPED for advisor upside. linkedin.com/in/sbrianouellette

Mar 02, 202117 minEp. 2047

They Grew 60% YoY to $4.2m Revenue By Spending $300k on FB Ads

Steven Morell is a Growth Hacker, UX Designer, Coder, serial entrepreneur and silicon valley animal. He has founded startups around the world and won multiple awards from the Silicon Valley Forum, BBVA Open Talent and others. He joined AX Semantics back in 2016 and helped growing it the world leading Natural Language Generation Platform for ECommerce.

Mar 01, 202117 minEp. 2046

He Sold $400k Business for $1.5m Then Reinvested Everything into New Business

Senior Market Insurance Distribution Leader. Top .01% producer for captive carrier, developed a successful team before starting retail agency on 6.1.08. Built over 12 years, sold for $1.5MM. Now product, service and consulting firm for producers and agencies. Marketing via IMOs as channel partners with direct sales force.

Feb 28, 202117 minEp. 2045

Bootstrapped Employee Performance SaaS hits $3.6m ARR, Up from $2.4m, Valued at $40m

Sri is a passionate entrepreneur and leader in building high performance organizations that care about their people. He has spent over 20 years in leading organizations in software development and consulting in the U.S. With a unique background in technology, people management, health IT and film writing, directing and production, Sri brings a diverse set of experiences across industries and specialities to build high performing, highly engaged organizations.

Feb 26, 202117 minEp. 2043

Brightpearl $33m Raised, $105m Valuation, $18m Revenue, Targeting $25m by EOY

When Derek O'Carroll joined Brightpearl three years ago, he took on the biggest risk any CEO can take - a turnaround. Since taking the helm as CEO, Derek has led the retail operations platform from stagnant growth to more than $12 million in revenue, nearly 1,400 customers worldwide, and managing more than $3 billion in orders. Shortlisted for CEO of the Year at the Digital Masters Awards in 2018, the father-of-two is now recognized globally as a retail expert. In the 90s, Derek left his career ...

Feb 25, 202121 minEp. 2042

How Measured.com Grew 250% TTM To Break $5m in Revenues Helping WIth Marketing Attribution

Trevor is the co-founder and CEO of Measured, an industry leader in cross-channel media incrementality measurement for portfolio investment decisions. Trevor has spent his 20-year career building and growing enterprise technology companies. He is a pioneer and expert in the cross-channel marketing measurement category, having spent the last 10 years working with advertisers to deploy and benefit from advanced cross-channel measurement technologies. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies and em...

Feb 22, 202115 minEp. 2039

SpringBig Raised $11.5m on $100m Valuation at $20m Revenue in Niche CRM Space

Jeffrey Harris is Founder and CEO of Springbig, a leading provider in cannabis CRM and loyalty marketing technology with over 25 million users across the United States and Canada. Jeffrey has over 15 years of marketing, sales management and client services experience in the incentive marketing and loyalty marketing fields.

Feb 21, 202120 minEp. 2038
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