mFiles has grown from $10m revenues in 2015 to more than $123m today. CFO Justin Kim has been there for the full ride. Is forecasting a waste? How should a CFO setup a plan B? How should scenario analysis actually work?
Jun 11, 2024•19 min•Ep. 2867
Typeform CEO Kim Lecha is in a war with Jotform, Surveymonkey, and other form providers. His 2024 top priority is a brand new marketing approach. Will it work? Will Typeform break $180m in ARR before Dec 2024?
Jun 04, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2866
Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore invented the term Ecosystem Led Growth. He sold his first company for $60m before taking those lessons and launching CrossBeam. Will he hit $50m in ARR before Dec 2024?
May 30, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2865
Coro CEO Drew Liwer shares breaking news. He credits their revenue growth to a channel first strategy. Listen to get his playbook. Will they hit $150m in ARR before Dec 2024?
May 28, 2024•24 min•Ep. 2864
Cledara Co-Founder Brad Leeuwen wanted to grow faster. He was nervous to change pricing. Once he did, the results shocked even him. Will they break $30m in ARR this year?
May 23, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2863
How did they get Mark Cuban to invest early on? What pricing changes did they make to grow from $40m to $80m in ARR? How did Ross acquire 4+ companies? Will they break $150m in ARR by Dec 2024?
May 21, 2024•28 min•Ep. 2862
TimeDoctor CEO Liam Martin has used his community to bootstrap his SaaS to $20m. He'll show you how he grew 202% in 2020 and continues to grow profitably. Can they hit $25m by Dec 2024?
May 16, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2860
Metadata CEO Gil Allouche almost killed his company in April 2020 when he only had $500k cash left in the bank and less than 2 months of runway. He used 4 growth tactics to turn things around, hitting $15m in ARR last week. Can he break $20m before Dec 2024?
May 14, 2024•19 min•Ep. 2859
Founder of Brightedge Jim Yu teaches us the 3 weekly candences he ran to hit $20m, how he set up his org chart from $20m to $100m, and 3 non-standard metrics he tracks. Will they break $150m ARR this year?
May 09, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2858
May 07, 2024•23 min•Ep. 2857
Eugene Levin joined SEMRush at $3m ARR after the founders wouldn't let him invest. As president, he's grown the business to 100,000 paying customers 850k free users, $2,500 ACV and 25% YoY revenue growth. Will they break $350m ARR this year?
May 02, 2024•26 min•Ep. 2856
Adam Robinson had a 6 person team doing $10m in ARR. Then he went all in on linkedin, pivoted to B2B, and broke $20m in ARR. He did $1,858,399 MRR in Jan 2024 and profited $509,984. Can he break $5m in profits this year?
Apr 30, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2855
Apr 25, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2854
Jason Cohen founded WPEngine in 2010 and broke $20m within 4 years. Today, the company does $400m+ in Revenues. In this podcast Cohen teaches 9 rules he used to change his org chart, optimize roles, and replace himself as CEO as he scaled. Will they break $500m revenue this year?
Apr 23, 2024•28 min•Ep. 2853
Ryan Allis launched iContact when he was 18. He made $15m cash when he exited in 2011 for $169m. He shares his negotiation with Salesforce Marc Benioff, how he found 10 profitable acquisition channels, 70,000 customers, and broke $50m in revenues. Will he buy it back for $1 one day?
Apr 18, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2852
LMS365 raised $20m in 2023 at a $100m valuation - a 5x multiple on $20m of ARR. As of April 2024, they do $30m in ARR. Their 200 person team is focused on building software for the Microsoft ecosystem. Can they hit $40m ARR this year?
Apr 16, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2851
Apr 11, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2850
They hit $3m ARR fast using MTU tiers on their pricing page. Raised $7m in 2023 at a $35m post money valuation and are burning $30k per month today. Focus is profitability before Q2 2025, will they hit it?
Apr 04, 2024•16 min•Ep. 2849
Rural mom and pop shops love him. 13,000 have purchased his POS and software system processing over $1.85 billion in GMV in 2023 across 35m transactions. Can he crack $2b GMV in 2024?
Apr 02, 2024•31 min•Ep. 2848
Companies like Samsung are sourcing college talent using Scholarship Owl. The firm hit $6m in 2023 revenue, bootstrapped. 150,000 college students join the platform monthly increasing the size and quality of the talent pool the company's B2B customers can pay to access. Can he hit $10m this year?
Mar 28, 2024•23 min•Ep. 2845
Mar 26, 2024•22 min•Ep. 2846
CEO Alex Shvarts shared a default rate of 15%, charge off rate of 6.8%, along with significant expenses related to acquisition costs, and interest expenses. The firm is targeting $300m in capital deployed in 2024. If it hits its target, does this FinTech SMB factoring company have enough margin to survive long term?
Mar 21, 2024•33 min•Ep. 2844
Reveeler grew ARR 100% from $25m to $51m in 2023 and took $5m to the bottom line as profits. What interest rate do they pay Hercules on their new $65m debt facility for acquisitions? How does CEO Jay Ackerman plan to hit $100m in revenue this year (2024)? Who will they acquire next?
Mar 19, 2024•28 min•Ep. 2843
Mar 14, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2842
20 year old wins $3m playing poker, launches SaaS. He raised $18.2m. After 7 years and dilution down to under 50% he left to launch his new bootstrapped company. Whippy helps lawyers run their operations and hit $4m ARR this month. Can he hit $10m bootstrapped?
Mar 12, 2024•24 min•Ep. 2841
CEO Griff Parry launched m3ter in 2020 after selling his first company Gamesparks to AWS. Today 10-100 customers pay him platform fee's and usage fee's to use his usage based billing API tool. He doesn't code but across his team of 56, more than 25 are engineers. Can they scale into their last round valuation?
Mar 07, 2024•27 min•Ep. 2840
Feb 29, 2024•19 min•Ep. 2839
Launched in 2016 selling software to Music Repair Shops, TudoDesk exited for $1m+. This is the low stress, high wealth way to build a software company. TC won't write about you, but it doesn't matter, you'll get wealthy fast!
Feb 20, 2024•19 min•Ep. 2838
Launched in 2016, CEO Matt Prados got rich off dividends and profits. He's bootstrapped to $20m in revenue with plans to hit $32m in 2024. Can he do it? His outbound call center strategy might get him there.
Feb 15, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2837
Feb 13, 2024•13 min•Ep. 2836