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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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911 SaaS: Instapage passes $10m+ ARR Competing with Optimizely, Unbounce

Tyson Quick is a digital marketing wiz who’s focused on perfecting the landing page optimization process. Tyson founded Instapage in 2012 after seeing how marketers were losing money in wasted ad spend. His vision since then has been to create a landing page platform that maximizes returns through advertising personalization.

Jan 21, 201816 min

910 Sales Call Technology On How To Sign 1000+ Seat Accounts, Pass $24m in ARR

Eric Esfahanian is CRO of Gryphon Networks, a Boston-based Saas company that specializes in driving phone-based sales effectiveness for large distributed sales teams. With over 30 design and process patents covering every aspect of advanced telephony, Gryphon counts ADT, Sprint, Santander, and New York Life among over 700 enterprise clients.

Jan 20, 201821 min

908 SaaS: Miva is Enterprise Shopify, Passes $16m in ARR Founded in 1996

With over 20 years of executive-level experience, Rick has a unique vantage point on the business shift to ecommerce, asserting that business society is still very early in the transition to ecommerce, with less than 10% of retail and even less of B2B transactions currently conducted in online commerce.

Jan 18, 201823 min

907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Toby Olshanetsky is the CEO and cofounder of prooV, the first Pilot-as-a-Service platform, which helps companies find, test-drive and implement new technologies. In the past 20 years, he has led several successful businesses, and is an active board member and mentor to numerous startups.

Jan 17, 201817 min

906 SaaS: Interactive Video Company Passes $1.2m ARR After Unique Way of Handling Churn

Disappointed with digital video's inability to rise to its potential, Erika started Rapt Media. Erika has worked to build a business positioned at the top of emerging video technologies, providing interactive solutions to enterprise companies. Erika has solidified an A-list customer portfolio including companies like PwC, Samsung, Accenture, and Vodafone.

Jan 16, 201820 min

901 SaaS: Bootstrapped Enterprise Marketing Maropost Passes $36m ARR

Ross Andrew Paquette is the founder and CEO of Maropost, ranked as one of North America's fastest growing tech companies by Deloitte. After starting Maropost in 2011, Ross has grown the company from a one-man-operation in his apartment, to an international business valued at $160M USD, in just six years.

Jan 11, 201818 min

898 SaaS: SnapApp Lands Amazon as Customer, Passes $8m in ARR

Seth is the founder and CEO of SnapApp. As a repeat entrepreneur, Seth was previously the founder & CEO of Pangea Media (acquired by AdKnowledge) and co-founder & CEO of Focalex, (acquired by Intermix / MySpace). He started out as a banker at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Jan 08, 201821 min

895 $10m+ Balancing Act Between SaaS and Variable CPM Revenue

Erik Matlick guides vision and corporate strategy at Bombora, bringing over 15 years in founding, board and executive management experience. An online performance marketing pioneer, Erik's insights about the confluence of data analytics, media operations, ad serving technology, sales and marketing processes are the driving force behind Bombora's value proposition.

Jan 05, 201818 min

894 SaaS: How Broadly Got SMB Churn Sub 2%, 5m+ ARR

Josh Melick is CEO and Co-Founder of Broadly.com, a review generation platform focused on local business online reputation. Prior to founding Broadly, Josh was Director of Product at DemandForce, which was acquired by Intuit in 2012. Josh also held leadership roles with Ingenio, which was purchased by AT&T in 2007.

Jan 04, 201818 min

892 SaaS: How he Sold 80,000 Seats at $10 a pop

Enterprise software veteran, worked for Oracle and Cashedge (now part of Fiserv) prior to founding Apptivo. Working to change the way small businesses will run their business to minimize costs, optimize business processes and make better business decisions.

Jan 02, 201820 min

890 SaaS: Self Serve Infographics Tool Hits $250k MRR

Eugene Woo is the CEO of Venngage, an infographic design tool. His mission is to help businesses tell their stories with compelling and memorable visuals. He enjoys reading and writing about content marketing, entrepreneurship, and data visualization. You can read more of his articles on the Venngage blog.

Dec 31, 201725 min

889 1% of Humanity Uses This Bootstrapped Tool, $100m+ Revenue

David Erickson is the Founder and CEO of FreeConferenceCall.com. His simple ideas and deft execution have transformed the telecommunications industry to better suit the needs of consumers and businesses worldwide. Dave founded FreeConferenceCall.com on the simple principle that collaborative communication should be available to everyone, both affordably and efficiently. He purchased a $10 URL, which sparked the first viral movement in the telecommunications industry to support free conferencing ...

Dec 30, 201722 min

887 22 Year Old King of Influencer Marketing?

Victor Ricci has always loved the Internet and creating things. He had experimented in different areas of technology and business to find what he was passionate about. During this process he started a half dozen web companies before founding one he loved, TrendPie.com.

Dec 28, 201722 min

886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet

Segment's co-founder and CEO; He studied Aerospace Engineering at MIT and fell into the world of customer data and analysis when he and three of his college friends started Segment in 2011 as part of Y Combinator. He and his wife Erika, who he met at MIT, live together in San Francisco.

Dec 27, 201726 min

885 Auction Marketplace will Sell $500m This Year, Takes 25% As Revenue

Andrew Blachman is the COO of Tophatter, the world's fastest, most entertaining marketplace for mobile shoppers, where he oversees ongoing business operations within the company. Previously, he was the CEO of GET ME IN! Blachman has both a B.A. and M.S. degree from Stanford University.

Dec 26, 201717 min

883 SaaS: What To Do When Your Lead Developer Quits

25 years-old French entrepreneur. Turned a grad-school side-hustle into a +$20K monthly recurring business in a few months. I founded LeadGuru.io to stop B2B companies from spending hours building bad, boring, low-yielding cold-emailing campaigns. We come in and pump their cold-emailing capacities to the next level. They just sit and watch hot leads flooding their inbox.

Dec 24, 201721 min
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