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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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EasyGenerators Grows 100% YoY to $4.2m Revenue, 1200 Customers

Kasper has been an industry leader in the L&D space for over 25 years. He has made an impact on this ever-evolving field as CEO of the fast growing scale up Easygenerator and as an e-learning blogger (kasperspiro.com), author and speaker at various e-learning conferences around the world.

Dec 22, 202014 minEp. 1977

EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR

Dr. Lindy Ledohowski (B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.) was a former English teacher and then English professor in Canada before becoming an EdTech CEO for academic writing software platform, EssayJack. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, research, and publications, and is now an award-winning entrepreneur. She has published both peer-reviewed scholarship and popular pieces on writing and offers keynote addresses on webinars on EdTech, leadership, and academic writing.

Dec 21, 202021 minEp. 1976

WhatConverts Hits $2.1m Revenue, $300k Profits in Call Tracking Space

Started first business (online industrial directory) in 1999 in South Africa, and is still in operation today. Personally moved to UK in 2001 to have a more politically stable business base. Then moved to USA in 2006, as US based clients began to increase. Over the years we morphed from an industrial directory to a digital marketing agency. In 2014 co-founder and I began discussing how to solve lead tracking and reporting problem with marketing clients. We officially launched WhatConverts in Mar...

Dec 19, 202018 minEp. 1974

AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing

Alogpix is the only place to understand eCommerce market share, pricing, and promotions of your competitors and category in real-time . Powering Fortune 50 CPGs and Marketplaces, Algopix gives you a window into now, not weeks ago with 1P + 3P Coverage so you can adjust to current market conditions, boost sessions and conversions with more relevant merchandising and pricing.

Dec 18, 202020 minEp. 1973

AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?

I am a serial Entrepreneur (my third Startup got acquired for a 17x return to investors by $SPLK) and I love making companies with a little bit of funding, tons of freedom and small teams. I am an active Angel Investor, organizer of many tech meetups in LA and I still write code (I have a super strong engineering background). I have been a speaker/lecturer to tons of events all over the world about Entrepreneurship and Startups and I love helping founders.

Dec 15, 202020 minEp. 1970

Credo Hits $300k Revenue By Paying $2m to SEO Consultants

Credo was founded and is run by John Doherty. John has almost a decade of experience in SEO and online marketing. Before starting Credo, he ran marketing/growth for HotPads and Trulia Rentals, part of the Zillow Group family of real estate brands. Before that he was a consultant at Distilled, where he was the most senior consultant and a founding member of the New York City office. During his time there he consulted with everyone from small VC-backed startups (who closed rounds of funding becaus...

Dec 14, 202013 minEp. 1969

Atrium Breaks $14m Doing AI Consulting

As CEO of Atrium, Chris leads a world-class team in empowering companies to embrace the next generation of tech through the power of AI. Chris brings more than 15 years of sales, professional services and marketing experience across solution areas including CRM, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and custom application development.

Dec 13, 202014 minEp. 1968

LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised

Prayag is founder and Executive Chairman of LeadGenius. Before founding LeadGenius in 2011, Prayag worked at Finland's top research institute as an expert in Ubiquitous Interaction and built mobile applications and embedded systems in Delhi's startup scene. He is an author of several book chapters and papers on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Network Security. He has a M.S. in Information Science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology In...

Dec 11, 202020 minEp. 1966

FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell

Eric is a Central Oregon native, Cal Poly graduate and startup founder with a passion for entrepreneurship. Whether it be building a tech company from the ground up, investing in real estate or flipping cars on craigslist, a desire to construct his own success has inspired his actions.

Dec 10, 202022 minEp. 1965

FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised

Lesley Eccles is the Founder and CEO of Relish, the first-ever relationship training app making it easier to build happy, healthy, more connected relationships. She was previously co-founder and former head of marketing at FanDuel, the billion dollar fantasy sports company. Lesley also served on FanDuel's board of directors.

Dec 09, 202022 minEp. 1964

Tenon Hits 2m Revenue In Automated Testing Space

Web accessibility testing has a problem: testing after the fact. Tenon seeks to solve that. Tenon is a one of a kind accessibility testing tool in that it is aimed at offering unprecedented flexibility in tooling for designers developers testers and content authors. Tenon achieves these goals via its API which can be seamlessly integrated into your existing toolset. It doesn't matter what IDE you use, what CMS you use, what automated build and deploy tool you use, or what you use for unit testin...

Dec 07, 202021 minEp. 1962

RedSeal Sold 50%+ For $60m This Year doing $50m in Revenues in CyberSecurity Space

Ray joined RedSeal as CEO in February 2014. Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal's founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies.

Dec 05, 202020 minEp. 1960

G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation

Entrepreneur delivering success to B2B tech buyers and vendors via G2.com marketplace...and supporting ThreeKit in building the world's most amazing 3D visual selling platform. Previously built cloud CPQ software pioneers BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce). Following the conscious path to reach the PEAK in my work, personal, and family life.

Dec 04, 202018 minEp. 1959

She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!

Jessica Rovello is the CEO and co-founder of Arkadium, which provides interactive content to the world's most well-known brands and publishers, including CNN, Comcast, Microsoft, The Washington Post and USA Today. Jessica is the winner of the American Business Award for Executive of the Year, the Stevie Award for Entrepreneur of Year, was named one of SmartCEO's Future 50 and is a Crain's New York "40 Under 40" winner.

Dec 03, 202023 minEp. 1958

OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange

David Hollander is the founder of Order Desk, an app that helps merchants save time on their ecommerce order management. He started Order Desk as a side-project six years ago, and it's now grown into a bootstrapped company employing six people and grossing $60K/month.

Dec 02, 202021 minEp. 1957

LetsChat Helping Outbound Sales Initiate Chat with Prospects Starting with Email

Ankesh, was born in India, educated in London, based in Silicon Valley. ATSystems, 0-$22m in 4 years. Sold to TMP/Monster. Personic, 0- $25m in 4 years. Raised $50m, Personic sold to Kronos. Sold patents to Google for "Sharing as a Page Ranking Mechanism," prior to Facebook's "Like button"

Dec 01, 202014 minEp. 1956

Perx Hits $27m Valuation

"I've had the privilege of experiencing the best of both worlds, 5 startups and 3 MNCs in the last 20 years in the enterprise software space solving mission critical business problems. After 12 years in San Francisco and working with some of the brightest entrepreneurs, engineers, VCs, and tech leaders, I transitioned what a 2 year contract to Asia has now turned into 10 years, having mostly based in Singapore and Japan. The excitement continues, especially now that I'm leading my own startup in...

Nov 30, 202020 minEp. 1955

Front End As a Service, I Predict They'll Be $100m Within 3 Years

Matthew Hager began writing code at the age of 8. At 20 he started Poetic, one of Houston's leading technology agencies. Now, as CEO of Clutch, he is working towards his lifelong passion of making building software faster and easier than ever before. When he's offline, he spends time with his wife of 11 years, 4 kids, 17 chickens and 2 dogs.

Nov 28, 202021 minEp. 1953

Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

George Arison is the co-founder of Shift, an online marketplace disrupting the used car industry. An immigrant from Georgia and lifelong entrepreneur, he also co-founded the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), as well as working for Google and BCG.

Nov 26, 202030 minEp. 1951

Tootris Launches Daycare as a Service, 100 Customers

TOOTRiS is service provider that helps working parents' access and secure affordable, quality Child Care in real-time. TOOTRiS is available online or by mobile app and provides search by location, schedule, budget and specific program distinctions, along with virtual tour capabilities, enrollment and pay-as-you-go payment processing.

Nov 25, 202019 minEp. 1950

$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?

Since 2009, Paris has founded and run Hop Online, which has pivoted in recent years to focus entirely on SaaS growth marketing. Services include SEO, content marketing, paid search, paid social, CRO, data analytics, and creative. From 2014-16, Paris was Country Manager for Google in Bulgaria. Today, Hop Online serves several high growth SaaS companies that are pursuing exponential scale ahead of or in response to investor financing.

Nov 23, 202019 minEp. 1948
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