SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

How LearnWorlds Broke 4,500 Customers, $6m ARR Helping Course Creators Launch

Panos Siozos is the co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds – a Cyprus-based e-learning company that is transforming self-paced learning through hassle-free textual and video-based learning. Panos co-founded the company in 2014, during a period in which the economies of both Greece and Cyprus were not conducive to new ventures. LearnWorld is now a multi-million-dollar SaaS company based in over 70 countries, with a team of over 30 employees!

QuickOrder Hits $6m Helping Restaurants Drive Loyalty. Next? Raising $20m on $100m Valuation.

Mads Wedderkopp is a young but experienced founder, he took Quickorder from 0 to 40 people, raised multiple funding rounds, and completed two acquisitions as Founding CEO. He has since grown the company to 60+ people and an ARR of 6M+ USD as Group COO. Beside Quickorder Mads is also chairman of Dreaminfluencers a rapid growing martech company that has more than 10x'ed the first 6 month of 2021.

How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months

Gil Feig is the co-founder of Merge. Previously the Head of Engineering at Canvas, he's led projects at Wealthfront and LinkedIn. A graduate of the Columbia University, Gil lives and works in San Francisco.

He'd Sell Keyword Research SaaS $750k ARR For $1.5m, $250k in Profits

Petersen was #13 at a staffing industry startup that grew from $7M to $65M during his tenure and went public in 1996. The business is still operating today in 26 countries and has a $4B market cap. Petersen then spent 20 years consulting before launching Growth Stack Inc, a Saas portfolio on a path to IPO in the next 30 months.

They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

Justin Fischer is CEO and Co-Founder of RiskScout, a leading company helping financial institutions bank higher risk businesses such as Hemp, CBD, Cannabis, MSB, Private ATMs, Crypto, and many more. Small to medium-sized businesses in higher-risk and specialty markets are not able to access financial services because many providers lack the resources, expertise, or infrastructure to expand their business portfolio into higher-risk markets. This compliance barrier leaves many hard-working entrepr...

He couldn't have a baby, built software to solve the problem, now $500k ARR

Jake Diner is a former Big Ten Track and Field Champion, who graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Computer Science in 2001. He spent the first 10 years of his career in a global product management leadership roles working for multinationals like Dell and Belkin. Since founding his first startup in 2011 and raising tens of millions in venture funding, Jake has been in entrenched in an entrepreneurial journey of building companies and solving global tech problems affecting mil...

CPG Data SaaS Doubles to $1.6m ARR, Raising $3m on $18m Now

Pan has been managing projects and firms across various industries with a focus on eBusiness & Technology. Amongst his roles was Head of Business Planning, for the leading mobile commerce firm, Upstream, with business development responsibilities in 40 countries. He founded Convert Group on 2014 as an eCommerce Consultancy and in 2019 they pivoted into an Enterprise SaaS with his partner, Elena.

Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Eran is the CEO & Co-Founder of Bizzabo, an all-in-one Event Success Platform and one of the fastest growing event tech companies in the world. He has led Bizzabo in winning the People's Choice Award at the Event Tech Awards for three years in a row. Before he founded Bizzabo, Eran was an event marketer and served as the CEO of the Rosh-Pina Media Convention. He also was a team leader and systems engineer at Elbit Systems. Eran graduated cum laude from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, ...

PE Just Ate JazzHR, Here are their metrics 1 year ago

Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business market with deep experience in B2B high velocity new customer acquisition. As CEO of JazzHR, Lamson is responsible for JazzHR's strategic direction, company performance, day-to-day business operations, and serves as a support center for our revenue teams.

My Favorite Bootstrapped SaaS Founder ($122k MRR)

Dmytro Okunyev is the founder and owner of Chanty, a team communication platform. Dmytro started toying with the idea of a chat app back in 2017, he realized that team communication should be made easier, more flexible and powerful so that it encompasses chat, audio and video.

Why SaaS Founders Use Them as SDR's, First Sales Hire

Founder of Fullfunnel.io ( Full-Funnel B2B marketing for B2B Service-Based, Tech and SaaS companies) and ROIplan (marketing planning platform). I live and breathe B2B marketing since 2007. Author of ""LinkedIn Content Marketing: How to generate high-quality B2B leads on LinkedIn without cold messaging and ads"" book that was awarded as the best B2B marketing ebook and was included to 100 Best B2B Marketing Books of All Time by Bookauthority.

ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

An engineer from a young age, previously CTO/R&D manager in a number of Israeli startups, ex-Googler turned entrepreneur and CEO, changing the US education financing. Running a successful all-remote company now for 5 years, and a strong believer in remote as a way of life.

Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?

"Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai. Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who's successfully exited several companies on that theme. His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. He speaks frequently to anyone who'll listen, from the crowds of Web Summit to his building's doorman, about an optimistic future...

Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?

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.

Shiphero Raised $50m last week, inside their metrics

Founder and CEO of ShipHero. Previously founder and CEO of an online retailer of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu apparel that I founded in 1999 at age 19 and ran until I started ShipHero.

ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Will Gong Break $10b Valuation by October?

Amit Bendov is the CEO and founder of Gong.io. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in hyper-growth enterprise software startups. Before co-founding and leading the team at Gong.io, Amit was CEO of SiSense, and also held the role of CMO for Panaya.

How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation

Patrick Walker is the co-founder of Uptime, an app that presents expertly curated five-minute Knowledge Hacks of the world's best books, courses and documentaries.

BetterAgency CRM for Insurance Hits $1m ARR, Raises $2m on $15m Valuation

I am the Co-Founder of Better Agency, the first Sales-Driven AMS and the industry's top CRM for Independent Insurance Agencies. We are on a mission to help agents issue $1Billion in new business premium by 2024. I am an Ex-Professional Athlete, and my ""playing field"" is now the Tech & software Space.

Indie Riches: He Makes More Now Than The $100k Job That Laid Him Off in 2019

Cam Sloan is a Canadian entrepreneur who worked as a full-stack developer until he was laid off in 2019. Instead of finding a new job, he started freelancing with the goal of eventually starting a product business. Today he juggles both as he works towards building a profitable software business.

Brazil Customer Success SaaS hits $25k MRR, $3m Valuation

Leonardo is an expert in customer relationship management who worked in small and large companies through his career. In 2017, decided to change the side and invite some friends to build CustomerX, a SMB Brazilian Customer Success Management Platform.

What Happened: Only $7k in Bank, Now $4.5m ARR, 100% YoY Growth

Husband Wife Team Goes From Almost Dead to 100 Customers

12 years into my programming career, I finally landed my dream tech job. Great team, great salary, great projects. But after 3 months, I started feeling bored. I realized that not even the perfect job could fulfill me, as I craved a bigger challenge. I had no other choice than to start my own company.

ProjectCor Hits $1m ARR, Raises at $40m Valuation for Profit Tracking Tool for Agency's

Santiago Bibiloni (born in Buenos Aires., October 20, 1989) is a Silicon Valley based technology entrepreneur and co-founder & CEO at COR, the next-generation solution for creative and professional teams that intelligently suggests how to manage your projects, teams and finances. Prior to COR he founded Balloon Group, one of Argentina's fastest growing digital agencies, among other businesses. Today he continues to grow COR and is also a Sales and Fundraising mentor at 500 Startups as well a...

HockeyStack Hits First $800 in MRR in 2 Months

I'm an 18-year-old, who is passionate about making things people need and use. I have tried a lot of things varying from personalized book boxes to a social media app to solve different problems with my friends and now growing my first SaaS, HockeyStack.

Freightos Grows GMV 800%, Exits COVID Stronger Than Ever

Why RambleChat Sold to Terminus Last Year at 10x Valuation Multiple

Windsor Breaks $55k MRR, Turns Down VC, Loves Bootstrapped

Slintel Breaks $6m ARR, $20m Raise on $100m Valuation Ready to Take on B2B Intelligence Space

Founder and CEO of Slintel. Hired Anupreet Singh Lamba early on who is currently leading Sales at Slintel, a SaaS Sales Intelligence platform. He has set up sales teams and functions from scratch for various companies and firmly believes that the initial revenue target is achieved only when the entire organization works with the grit to support them.

This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Founder Dux-Soup