SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1658 Why 142 Production Teams Pay Him $142k/mo For Quicker File Management

Paul has worked with video and big data files for three decades and he understands the complexities of sharing those files. His experience in the broadcasting and cable industry and the contacts he nurtured through the years helped him to establish latakoo inside some of the biggest broadcasting companies. Paul has won numerous awards, including Emmys, for investigative journalism. He has a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School with a focu...

1657 How He Grew $10M ARR on Just $500k Raised

David Hood, CEO of VanillaSoft, is a successful software entrepreneur with extensive international experience in finance, business development, sales, and marketing. Under his leadership, VanillaSoft has grown over the past decade from a small start-up to a leader in the sales engagement market.

1656 With $40m in ARR, He's Helping Office Owners Manage Rooms and Scheduling

Paul Statham, CEO & Founder of Condeco Software, has established several successful and innovative businesses, including two exited companies. He has helped to shape the relationship between real estate and technology, establishing Condeco as one of the foremost providers of workspace management technology.

1655 How He Got Enterprises To Pay Him $1m in ARR For Snapchat Story Creation

1654 How He Build Astrology API SaaS To $45k in MRR

I am a technopreneur with 8+ years of experience in Product Development and Software Architect. In past, worked with MNCs on embedded and e-learning products. Built an Astrology website when in college and created AstrologyAPI.com in 2016. My areas of expertise include NodeJS, Core JS, Java, Android, PHP, AWS & Machine Learning and now Growth and Sales My interests are in Tech, Philosophy, History, and Astrology.

1653 Can He Stay Nimble With Deloitte As #1 Investor?

With 17 years leadership experience under his belt and a Ted Rogers MBA specialized in management of technology and innovation (gold medal 2014), Pete is currently CEO of Auvenir, a Deloitte venture that is assisting small to medium audit firms leverage technology to enhance the capabilities of CPAs in the financial audit industry. He is passionate about driving exponential change to for the betterment of all society. He has built and grown a number of businesses globally from launching the firs...

1652 Should You Stop $360k Agency to Go All In On New SaaS Product?

Kimia is the Co-founder and CEO of Ghostit (winner of top 10 companies to watch for 2018), speaker, and host of Content and Coffee.

1651 Is This a Smart Way to Get First $3k in MRR?

I started my professional life as a venture analyst in an angel investment network. Then, I co-founded a startup studio helping entrepreneurs from ideation to web development with my current partner. Nowadays, I am responsible for the growth and sales of UserGuiding.

1650 How He Kept Leverage in $15m Raise Despite ARR Being Less Than $25m Raised To Date

Heath Wells is the CEO and Co-Founder of NuORDER, a B2B eCommerce platform that is revolutionizing the wholesale industry. Heath is an entrepreneur at heart, starting his first Internet-based business at the age of 15 in Adelaide, Australia. From 2004-2008, Heath served as the Managing Director at Furst Media in Australia, where he and partner Olivia Skuza led the company to great success across publishing, creative, and digital commerce. Today NuORDER is the leading B2B eCommerce platform. Head...

1649 How He's Making Push Notifications Smarters, $75k in MRR, 35 Enterprise Customers

David is CEO of OpenBack, the mobile engagement platform which uses edge computing and machine learning to make push notifications smarter. David also co-founded www.ding.com, the $500m business that enables millions online and from 600k+ stores top-up the family of a loved one back home in over 120 countries.

1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency

1647 How He Plans to Beat Basecamp and Monday

Ravikiran Annaswamy is Founder and CEO of Innohabit Technologies. He is incubating various innovative products using analytics and deep learning. His current business focus is on bringing Electric Mobility to Indian market and has launched various technology products like Fulcharge.com in this space. He works closely with global programs like Founders Institute (Fi.Co) and Unreasonable Institute as Mentor and Coach for early stage startups. He is on the global team of IEEE 5G and is responsible ...

1646 Why 900 SaaS CEO's Put $200m in ARR Through Him Every Year

Christian Owens is the founder and CEO of Paddle. Prior to Paddle, Christian created his first software business from his bedroom at the age of 14. Having grown the business to over $1m in revenue he decided to quit school at 16 to focus on building startups, and founded Paddle when he turned 18.

1645 How This $50k MRR Company Tells You Who's Sharing Your Links on Whatsapp Private Messages

João Romão, 30, is the founder of GetSocial.io a content & social analytics platform that helps companies like Adobe, AT&T, Sky News and MTV to better understand how audiences share their content. João is a member of the World Economic Forum (Global Shaper) and a board advisor at CIONET.

1644 How He Hit Cash Flow Positive, 35 Customers, and $2M in ARR

Maarten is founder and CEO of Limecraft, dedicated to giving media professionals the best possible solution to manage their digital workflows. Prior to this, as a programme manager for the R&D department of VRT (the Belgian public service broadcaster), he introduced several innovative technologies in the business, including Artificial Intelligence for computer assisted manufacturing and automatic indexing of audiovisual media. These experiences eventually led to the incorporation of Limecraf...

1643 How His Fathers Death Helped Him Grow $0 to $50k in MRR in 8 Months

Recovering lawyer (degrees from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and Duke in the US, accredited to practice in Guatemala and NY). Investpreneur (investor and entrepreneur). Co-Founder at Nahual Ventures, ExeBoard, Edoo, and SoyFri. Dreamer. Guatemalan born and living in New York. I serve as Board Member in my family's business since 2015, as well as in the Guatemalan Stock Exchange, two startups, and Fundegua, a Foundation I co-founded aimed at promoting culturally and research drive...

1642 How He Spent $150k To Buy Struggling SaaS Copmany, Now At $5M in ARR

Business leader and entrepreneur building motivated team in high energy business. Owner of SHE Software Ltd, fast growing SaaS solution to health and safety challenges. Leader in UK, entering US - home in Scotland and Chicago. Previously CEO and consultant (McKinsey), member of Prime Minister's policy team. MBA from INSEAD and BA from Oxford.

1641 How He Helps Medical Devices Get To Market Faster, 0-$1m in ARR in 12 Months

Jared Seehafer is the CEO and Cofounder of Enzyme, a software company that automates life science regulatory approval and compliance. He is a 12 year veteran of the medical device and biopharma industries, having worked or consulted at organizations ranging from Amgen, Abbott and Medtronic to seed-stage startups.

1640 How He's Scaled to $200k in MRR off $200/mo Plans

Marc Rutzen is the CoFounder and CEO of Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Enodo helps users analyze more deals in less time and make better investment decisions backed by data science. Utilizing machine learning, the platform collects, cleans and analyzes real-time multifamily rent and availability data from over two million properties nationwide. Marc oversees Enodo's data science, engineering and business teams to continually develop and release industry ch...

1639 How This Company Hit $10M Valuation Serving Real Estate Value Investors

Marc Rutzen is the CoFounder and CEO of Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Enodo helps users analyze more deals in less time and make better investment decisions backed by data science. Utilizing machine learning, the platform collects, cleans and analyzes real-time multifamily rent and availability data from over two million properties nationwide. Marc oversees Enodo's data science, engineering and business teams to continually develop and release industry ch...

1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Ethan Keiser is the CEO and founder of StudyTree, an app leveraging artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile academic assistant. He received his B.S from Drexel University in Computer Science before founding StudyTree. Ethan has won various business plan competitions including the Microsoft Imagine Cup and Dell Innovation Award, and regularly speaks about artificial intelligence at top education conferences. When not working on StudyTree, he spends time weightlifting and hiking....

1637 The Art of Shifting $60M in 1991 Revenue to Pure SaaS

Robert Alves - Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Solutions International (ASI) – is a dynamic, entrepreneurial leader who has grown the company from its beginnings in 1991 to become the leading and largest supplier worldwide of software to non-profit organizations. With offices on three continents, and more than 4,000 clients served, Alves has kept ASI in the forefront by consistently making innovative solution-oriented decisions on behalf of its clients.

1636 How 3 Month Old Harvestr Is Thinkng About Its First Paywall

I am the cofounder and CEO of Harvestr, a product management platform for customer-driven teams. I have a double background in business and engineering and I have worked in various industries : smartphones, environmental services and even in the French public administration. I am also a soccer player and DJ.

1635 How He Plans to Get Churn Under 30% Annually in Event SaaS Space

Aaron Lifshin is the CEO and founder of MeetingPulse. He has a 20-year track record creating and managing award-winning technical teams in the US and the UK. Successful exit: XLN Telecom, as CTO. Aaron is passionate about genuine human communication in all forms. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

1634 Why This Founder Knows He Has To be 100% Owner (And Thats Not a Bad Thing)

Built two profitable startups and then sold them (one e-commerce national, and one international). The last startup I've got VC investment without meeting the investors, I've incorporated in Ireland without ever going to Ireland, I've run an 8 people team all remote, became profitable and sold it in 2017. I like going from 0 to 1. I've been in two accelerators.

1633 Why He's Going $100k+ ACV From Day 1 in Recruiting Diversity Space

Scot is co-founder and CEO at TalVista. He brings more than 25 years of business management and leadership experience from fast paced startup companies. Previously, Scot ran his own consultancy focusing on marketing strategy serving fast paced startups in the HCM space. Prior to that, Scot was senior director at HireVue. Scot is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses over his diverse career. Scot is most passionate about helping people and seeing them succeed and realizing even ...

1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR

Lionel Roux, Engineer + MBA graduate, my career started in Japan working for Total (oil). Then, I created Nutec (racing fuels) in Southern California that I sold three years later. After graduation, I worked as a strategy consultant. In 2011, I created Wimi which makes teamwork fun and efficient.

1631 His Argument For Moving from SaaS to On Prem

Startup Founder, Digital Entrepreneur, and Product Executive, Zoltan hails from Hungary where he began his career in marketing and business development working for major brands such as T-Mobile, HBO, and Google (eventually as their initial Country Manager). After having worked 4 years in beautiful Barcelona, Zoltan now is co-founder & CEO of Gitential, a software development analytics platform.

1630 How He Used Linkedin To Close First 15 Customers, $45k in MRR for Debt Collection SaaS

Intrepid entrepreneur, explorer and video-gamer, Pedro has been in the startup world for 10 years having co-founded 4 projects and 2 successful exits mostly in the B2B space. His passion for collective sports and traveling has given him a broad perspective of the world, which he uses to daily guide his business towards, success...hopefully

1629 Will a Rebrand Help this $500k MRR Company Break 30% YoY Growth?

As Chief Executive Officer, President, Board Member and Investor in Integration Technologies, Inc., and the creator of InterWeave Smart Solutions, Bruce brings customer focused Solutions in response to customers' needs in to the digital age. Bruce has also served as the Chief Executive Officer, President, Board Member and Investor in SecurDigital, Inc., the company that developed SecurVoice©; the voice, data and video encryption solution designed to pass FIPS 140-2 certification. In 2000, Bruce ...