SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders - podcast cover

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.
Last refreshed:
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Deep Fake Tech Pivoted from $0 Last Year, $24m Raised, CEO teases new round

Gil is CEO & co-founder of D-ID, which he established in 2017 with his friends and fellow co-founders COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta. He has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments. Gil has commanding experience in a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.

May 19, 202121 minEp. 2125

With 1 Exit Done, Can He Automate Diligence for Financial Firms Using RPA?

Vik Singh is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of a new enterprise AI startup. Vik was the CEO and Co-Founder of Infer, a company that provides a predictive platform for helping businesses win more customers. Infer was acquired by Ignite. Previously, Vik was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures (SHV). Before SHV, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! BOSS, an open search platform that runs over 1 billion queries a month. He also worked at Google and Microsoft, helping ship Google...

May 18, 202116 minEp. 2124

No Code Airtable Tool Breaks 10k Users, $10m Valuation

I'm an engineer turned into entrepreneur, a mother of two, love all things technology and products, obsessed about design and UX. Started my engineering career in my early-20s, was leading product & engineering teams in my late-20s, and now building Softr.io - the easiest no-code platform for building powerful web-apps and portals from Airtable, in 10 minutes. Softr's mission is to make software building accessible to everyone! Currently, customers build online communities, marketplaces, pai...

May 16, 202114 minEp. 2122

$20m Fund for Amazon Sellers Using Private AI to Uncover Gold Mines

After careers in financial markets (Standard Chartered Bank) and academia (Professor of International Relations), Simon started to buy and build businesses and to date has an IRR of 27%. He built sustainable incomes in 8 countries and is now living in Virginia, USA, with his wife and daughter. Simon is English with dual US and British citizenships (ask him why one isn't enough). He is an alumni of University College London (BA (Hons), MA), the University of Edinburgh (PGDip by Research), the Uni...

May 13, 202116 minEp. 2119

Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Matt Weirich is the Co-founder and CEO of Realync. Having founded Realync over 9 years ago, Matt is on a mission to make multifamily touring, leasing, and communication, real and transparent. With their video leasing solution, Realync has helped teams all across the United States increase their lead-to-lease conversion rates and decrease sales cycles. Realync is partnered with many of the nation's largest property owners and managers and is actively being used in over 220K units today. Realync i...

May 12, 202124 minEp. 2118

Developers Side Project Lands First Customer from Reddit Community CloudyGamers

Sven is bootstrapping airgpu, a service to play the latest games on your laptop next to his day job as a software engineer. After working on multiple side projects over several years that either weren't released or generated zero revenue, he recently onboarded his first paying customer with airgpu.

May 11, 202110 minEp. 2117

How This 29 Year Old Bought a Micro-SaaS for $20k To Save Time

My formal education is in rabbinic studies. 4 years ago I decided to dive into the tech industry. I went to a boot camp, got a job and am now a Tech Lead at a company in Los Angeles (consumer rewards platform Prodege). I recently acquired a small Shopify app (via MicroAcquire) with the goal of growing it into a full reporting and notifications suite. I am treating the acquisition as my low cost MBA :)

May 09, 202116 minEp. 2115

Gainsight Paid Him $10k+ To Figure Out Sales in 2013, What He Recommends Now

Teaching reps how to earn the right to ask questions, which questions to ask, and when to do it is the primary driver behind Richard's N.E.A.T. Selling methodology. 20+ years experience. Clients include Gainsight, Google Cloud, Salesloft, Mattillion, and more. He brings a "liberal arts" degree in the school of life to sales. He's been Full Cycle AE, SDR, Sales Manager, Director of Sales, Director of Sales Operations, and VP of Sales.

May 08, 202121 minEp. 2114

Writers Make $100k/year on Content SaaS Marketplace Verblio, $9m Revenue

Steve Pockross brings more than 25 years of startup, Fortune 500, and nonprofit experience to his role at Verblio. Steve previously served as VP of Business Development and Strategy for Marketplace + SaaS pioneer LiveOps, as well as leadership roles at Tendril, Western Union, and HSBC. Steve received his MBA from Kellogg and his MA from Wesleyan University.

May 06, 202116 minEp. 2112

$2.4m in SaaS Revenues from Business and Apprentice Marketplace

Moe started his first landscaping business when he was 18. He sold that and started a residential design and build company that he grew to one of the largest in North America. After reaching the top of his industry he wanted a new challenge where his work could have a positive impact on the world. Moe then founded Acadium as a way to enable economic mobility to anyone with an internet connection.

May 05, 202119 minEp. 2111

How To Bootstrap to $1m with VC Funded Competitors With Just 4 People

Philippe is an autodidact coder. He always had the firm belief he needed only time and consistency before success hit, he slowly built his life around his capacity to sustain himself for as long as possible on a low budget. Fast forward to today, he runs two successful online businesses each reaching $1M/year.

May 04, 202121 minEp. 2110

Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of UserZoom, the Experience Insights Management company that helps businesses design, measure and deliver the best digital experiences. F500 brands like Google, Amazon, AT&T, Walmart, or Intel power and automate the UX and CX research of their digital properties through UserZoom's agile and scalable platform. I have 20-yrs experience in the fields of Marketing, Web Design and User Research.

May 03, 202121 minEp. 2109

She Doesn't Want Your VC Check, $10m+ In Dividends Paid Out for Time Tracking Tool

Corina Ludwig is an accomplished Senior Executive, Advisor, and Board Member with more than 30 years of success in Business Tech and advertising. For the past 21 years she's lead FunctionFox –a global leader in time-tracking and project management. She also sits on the board for Women in Science and Tech and the Innovation, and the Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council.

May 02, 202120 minEp. 2108

The Right Way to Build a Bootstrapped Community with WeekendClub

Originally I worked in ad agencies, but 4 years ago pivoted to tech, becoming a Product Manager then UX Researcher. On the side I started a popular London Indie Hackers meetup called IndieBeers (now part of Indie London), and from that evolved Weekend Club, the weekend co-working club for bootstrappers ($2,000 MRR).

Apr 28, 202115 minEp. 2105

Original On-Prem CRM GoldMine Still Does $3.6m in Maintenance Revenue, SaaS Play?

Former developer and Big 8 Consultant on selecting emerging technologies for use in sales and marketing for companies including McDonald's, Allied Van Lines, United Airlines, General Electric. Led enterprise sales teams at Delrina (WinFax) and Symantec (FormFlow). Now, General Manager of the GoldMine Business Unit of Ivanti, Inc.

Apr 27, 202121 minEp. 2104

Secret Dev Shop Top SaaS Founders Use Breaks $10m in Revenue

I am the founder and chief coder at Coditas. I believe coders are artists whose art is the code they write. I am a computer scientist from IIT Bombay and have been delivering quality software solutions for more than 16 years, but I believe my coding journey has just begun.

Apr 26, 202120 minEp. 2103

Copy his Playbook: His First $25k in MRR Came From Affiliates

Zachary Hedges exhibited a passion and proclivity for marketing from an early age. He started his first marketing communications company at age 16. By the time he was 25, Zach had leveraged his expertise to build a diverse client list that included the likes of The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and Pfizer, to name a few. In 2014, Zach transitioned into the Saas arena and launched MDC DOT, an all-in-one CRM and marketing automation platform; through Zach's innovative work, he received two US patents...

Apr 25, 202120 minEp. 2102

Camera Insurance as Beachhead to SaaS Play? 100 Customers Already.

Matt Sweetwood serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and a tech start-up founder. He is an internationally known professional speaker, author, coach, and social media influencer. However, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad. He is a frequent national TV and publication contributor.

Apr 24, 202121 minEp. 2101

Oil SaaS! They Broke $7m, Can They Hit $10m This Year?

As Chief Customer Officer at Seven Lakes Technologies, Sowmya Murthy leads the go-to-market teams in bringing to market JOYN, a SaaS leader in modernizing oilfields. With a fluency in mission critical systems and galvanizing change-resistant organizations, she has served on CEO's top council for 20+ years.

Apr 23, 202122 minEp. 2100
Hosted on Libsyn
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android