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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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1568 Why This Medical Tech CEO Is Considering 50% Sale of His Company for $3m

Andre D. Etherly is the Founder of eMedicalFusion, LLC. He holds a Masters of Science, Information Systems Technology, from George Washington University. Seeing the unmet needs of Direct-pay medical practices, he founded eMedicalFusion to design and build solutions that enable Direct-pay practices to succeed and excel both clinically and financially.

Nov 09, 201913 minEp. 1568

1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months

The team is led by CEO & Founder, Tarik Khribech. Tarik is supported by Director, Consultant, Terri Friel and various mentors at 1871, Chicago's Premier Incubator. Tarik is a serial Entrepreneur, with expertise and passion that sits at the nexus of technology, innovation, lifestyle and social innovation. He built l'Or d'Afrique, a line of beauty products currently in 400 outlets and eCommerce. Tarik built the ChoreRelief platform.

Nov 07, 201918 minEp. 1566

1564 How He Makes $180k/mo Selling Drone Tech to Mining Sites and OEM's

Ravi Sahu is a founder and CEO of Strayos. Before founding Strayos, he spent more than 12 years working globally with Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon and British Telecom in various roles, from product management to the building of teams for large digital transformation projects. His area of expertise is in Artificial intelligence and data analytics. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and Computer Science engineering degree from India.

Nov 05, 201914 minEp. 1564

1563 Why $28M+ ARR Wrike Tests New Channels at 24 Month Payback, Then Stabilizes at 12 Month Payback Over Time

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a SaaS-based work management platform that helps teams achieve operational excellence. Founded in 2006, Wrike now serves more than 15,000 customers in 130 countries, and employees 600 people across 5 offices. The company has raised north of of $26 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, DCM Ventures and TMT.

Nov 04, 201917 minEp. 1563

1561 How To Get 5 Team Members Paying Personally Onto One Team Account with $5m ARR MixMax

Olof Mathé is the CEO and a co-founder of Mixmax, a company that is "bringing the power of the Web to email" by creating richer email experiences with embeddable Slack-style commands to trigger polls, video, calendar invites, and more without leaving the message. Mixmax was founded in 2014 and received a $1.5 million seed investment round from a number of individual investors in April 2015.After finishing his engineering degree in France, Olof previously worked at Skype and McKinsey. He also hel...

Nov 02, 201919 minEp. 1561

1560 Why 15k Members Pay $300/mo For This Special Card (Not AMEX)

Carlo Cisco is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful companies and helped grow category-defining brands. Carlo is currently the Founder & CEO of SELECT, which has been heralded as "AMEX for the Next Generation" and "The Black Card for Millennials". Carlo is also a member of YEC and has been featured in 100+ stories across numerous media outlets including Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Huffington Post.

Nov 01, 201921 minEp. 1560

1555 This Rome Based Company Helps You Build Business Apps Fast, $25k in MRR, $1.3m Raised

Master degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, worked initially in the aerospace industry in Italy, England and the Netherlands. Founded his first company in 1995 (system integrator still active with 20+ employees), then a FHOSTER in 2008 (raised €1.2M from private investors and a VC fund), recently a company in the IoT industry.

Oct 27, 20198 minEp. 1555

1554 $130M ARR Vista Owned Company Made These 2 Moves Right After Acquisition

Husband to Irene. Father to Abbey and Mike. Studied Statistics at Michigan. Play sports, especially golf and paddle tennis. Love to use data to analyze things. Professionally that means using data to help CPG companies make better decisions. Personally, that means a love for poker and wagering.

Oct 26, 201921 minEp. 1554

1553 This $10k MRR Search Tool Helps Increase Your Website Conversions

Sujoy is Cofounder and CEO at Airim. It was founded in April 2017. Airim is a virtual assistant that reduces the huge time and effort users spend in trying to find relevant information for them while exploring a website or a web app. Currently, it is used 2 million times a day in websites of businesses of all sizes across four continents.

Oct 25, 201911 minEp. 1553

1552 $1.5M Email Marketing Tool Considering a Strategic Sale

I help companies to maximize their email channel ROI by providing the tools and knowledge to achieve just that. I play an active role in overseeing all product development, international marketing initiatives, and channel development. I believe people that I work with appreciate my creative & innovative thinking. I'm not all work, I love extreme water sports.

Oct 24, 201915 minEp. 1552

1551 Another CRM Hits 2500 Customers, $180k MRR

French internet pionnier. PhD in theoretical physics. Co-founded Weborama in 1998, survived the internet bubble crash, got listed on the french stock market in 2006. Founded Yoolink in 2008, pivoted to noCRM 4 years ago. Now more than 2 500 customers worldwide using our SaaS software to close more deals.

Oct 23, 201915 minEp. 1551

1550 He Helps 30 Non-Profits Report to Donors, $4k MRR, $80k Raised

Nonprofits struggle to identify the right KPIs that enable them to evaluate whether the projects they do are truly making a lasting impact. Makerble suggests KPIs to nonprofits and provides them with a database, survey tool and analytics platform which lets them track their impact in real-time and share that data with their funders and donors.

Oct 22, 20199 minEp. 1550

1549 Why Did He Leave a $60m Revenue "Unicorn"?

Serial entrepreneur, working online since 1998. Investing.com is on its way to becoming a privately funded unicorn - offices across the globe over 300 employees and 60m in revenue. Oitchau is a time an attendance solution which started in Brazil to Solve the problem of 3m annual labor law related lawsuits in the country.

Oct 21, 201922 minEp. 1549

1548 When Will He Stop Consulting And Go All In on $13k MRR SaaS Product?

Tom Cameron abandoned a Structural Engineering career in 1997 to pursue Internet technologies. He has founded multiple small businesses and 2 Internet SaaS businesses. He currently lives in Brisbane Australia where he co-manages a coworking space, manages todo.vu and still has a hand in a web consulting business he founded 18 years ago.

Oct 20, 201912 minEp. 1548

1546 $4.8M ARR, Bootstrapped, Major Media Brands and Games Use This To Optimzie App Store Apps

Dave Bell is an entrepreneur and recognized pioneer in the fields of mobile entertainment and digital content distribution. He has been featured in and is a frequent contributor to Inc. Magazine, Newsweek, VentureBeat, Website Magazine, Mobile Marketer, Mobile Retailer and numerous other publications. Dave is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Gummicube - the leading global provider of data, technology, and services for App Store Optimization.

Oct 18, 201918 minEp. 1546

1544 1 Day After $1.4B Exit He Launches LifeOmic to Tackle Precision Health Using AI and Machine Learning

Dr. Don Brown's first company was acquired by EDS in 1986. He founded Software Artistry in 1988 which became the first software company in Indiana to IPO. Don then founded and served as CEO of Interactive Intelligence which went public in 1999 and was acquired in 2016 for $1.4 billion. He started LifeOmic in late 2016. Don received a BS in physics, a MS in computer science, and an MD from Indiana University. He also received a MS in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University in 2017.

Oct 16, 201918 minEp. 1544

1543 They'll Help You Manufacture Your Product for 1/4th the Cost as Other Brokers, $100k in MRR, 20 Customers

Rich's passion for inventing and tinkering was ignited at an early age, when he attached some wires to a battery and a lightbulb and lit up his childhood bedroom for the first time. It also happened to be around the time he saw the movie Flubber, so it's safe to say his fate was sealed. Rich has a patent related to the military space and has experienced how difficult it is to get the products he'd spent years developing and prototyping actually made- this led to the creation of Inventaprint with...

Oct 15, 201916 minEp. 1543

1542 She Spends $300k/mo on Sponsored Instagram Posts

inCast is a leading influencer marketing platform focused on Instagram. inCast works with top Instagram celebrities and micro-influencers on marketing campaigns in Brazil and United States. inCast is a member of Startup Farm Incubator program based at Google Campus Sao Paulo.

Oct 14, 201922 minEp. 1542

1541 Brain Behind Sales Outreach Platforms Hits $150k MRR, 36 Customers

Founder/CEO of Motiva AI, Partner at venture studio The Data Guild, David is a serial entrepreneur. Previously he founded Social Kinetics (sold to RedBrick Health) and Proximal Labs (sold to Jive Software). He served as Chief Social Scientist at Jive and part of the team that took Jive to an IPO in 2011. He began his career as Program Manager for DARPA's CALO, the largest machine learning project funded by the US Government. Today he's an active early stage investor and advisor.

Oct 13, 201920 minEp. 1541

1540 Versace Gets Nordstrom Sell Through Data From Him, Passes $8m ARR and 500 Customers

Jay Hakami is the Founder, President, and CEO of Sky IT Group an 18-year-old SaaS solutions provider, headquartered in NYC. Mr. Hakami's 30+ years of successful executive leadership roles have always focused on in depth understanding of business challenges and solving them with deployment of creative and practical IT solutions. Prior to founding Sky IT Group, for a period of 10 years, Mr. Hakami served as Senior VP at large system integrator with overall responsibility of operations, marketing, ...

Oct 12, 201914 minEp. 1540

1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience

Sam Pollaro is the CEO of Venga, a Washington, DC-based technology company that uses big data to help restaurants and fitness companies better understand and engage with their guests. Before co-founding Venga, Sam was the founder of Petals for the People, a business that revolutionized the sale and distribution of fresh cut flowers. Mr. Pollaro holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Oct 11, 201916 minEp. 1539
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