Sid Bendre and his co-founders at Oleve built a $6 million ARR mobile app empire with just 6 people, generating $500,000 monthly revenue and 10-30% profit margins from their education apps Quizzard and Unstuck. Their first TikTok video exploded to 2.3 million views overnight, converting to 10,000 users instantly, and they've since scaled to 4 million total downloads by running 6-7 A/B tests simultaneously and building AI agents that automatically find app store arbitrage opportunities. In this e...
Jul 15, 2025•29 min•Ep. 2926
Romain Torres bootstrapped ARCads.ai from zero to $6 million ARR in just 16 months with only 5 employees, achieving an extraordinary $1.2 million in revenue per employee while staying completely profitable. He launched in January 2024, hit $5,000 MRR in his first week, crossed $1 million ARR by June 2024, and recently added $1 million in new ARR in a single month between April and May 2025. His secret weapon is an arsenal of over 100 AI agents built in Gumloop that automate everything from compe...
Jul 08, 2025•25 min•Ep. 2925
Ricardo Ghekiere bootstrapped BetterPic.io from $3,000 to $270,000 monthly revenue in just 12 months, building a $3.2M revenue AI headshot empire with 13 people and zero churn using a one-time purchase model. His affiliate program converts at 12% (versus the industry standard of 0.5-1%) with just 7 top performers driving $77,000 monthly revenue, while generating $230,000 revenue per employee. In this episode, Ricardo screen-shares his actual affiliate dashboard and revenue metrics, revealing his...
Jul 02, 2025•22 min•Ep. 2924
Jake Mor is the founder of Superwall (superwall.com), a mobile app paywall platform that generates $3.6 million ARR with just 12 employees by powering over 100 million paywall views monthly for 3,000 customers. His company processes $25-50 million in customer revenue each month and has built over 4,000 custom paywalls while facilitating 4-5 million new user conversions monthly across their customer base. Jake reveals his exact hybrid PLG-to-enterprise strategy that starts customers at $200-300 m...
Jun 19, 2025•24 min•Ep. 2922
Alan de Souza built Reachbox.ai (Zapmail), an AI-powered cold email outreach platform offering email warmups, campaign automation, and lead enrichment. He scaled from zero revenue to $6 million ARR in just 18 months, serving 4,500 paying customers at $110 average revenue per user while growing 25% month-over-month with only 7.5% churn rate. His 27-person team generates $230,000 in revenue per employee, with 280 active affiliates driving 35% of all customers through a 20% lifetime commission prog...
Jun 18, 2025•16 min•Ep. 2923
John Rush went from building 7 VC-backed startups as a CTO to creating a $3.5 million ARR empire of 20+ AI tools, with his biggest product SEO bot generating $120,000 monthly recurring revenue using just a 2-person team. He reveals his exact 30-30-30 growth formula (30% SEO, 30% cross-promotion, 30% social media) and how his listing bot makes over $50,000 per month selling one-time payments to 1,000 new customers monthly who want access to his database of 20,000+ directories. In this episode, Jo...
Jun 12, 2025•38 min•Ep. 2921
28-year-old French founder David Zitoun bootstrapped Submagic to $8 million ARR in just 3 years with only 13 employees, generating $615,000 revenue per employee without raising a single dollar of VC funding. He reveals how he hit $1 million ARR in exactly 90 days using the most generous affiliate program in SaaS - paying 30% lifetime commissions to 10,000+ affiliates who now drive $1.6 million of his annual revenue while processing 5-10,000 new signups daily. David breaks down his contrarian pla...
Jun 10, 2025•44 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Jun 08, 2025•20 min•Ep. 2920
Mar 11, 2025•15 min•Ep. 2918
Mar 04, 2025•10 min•Ep. 2917
Feb 25, 2025•20 min•Ep. 2916
Feb 18, 2025•16 min•Ep. 2915
Feb 11, 2025•22 min•Ep. 2914
Feb 04, 2025•21 min•Ep. 2913
50% Cash, 50% stock. Bridget Harris grew You Can Book Me from 0 to $5M revenue over 12 years. David is building Capacity (previously at Answers.com which sold for ~$900M). Today, Capacity acquires YouCanBookMe in a big win for bootstrappers!
Feb 04, 2025•28 min•Ep. 2919
Jan 28, 2025•27 min•Ep. 2912
Jan 21, 2025•16 min•Ep. 2911
Jan 14, 2025•21 min•Ep. 2910
Jan 07, 2025•15 min•Ep. 2909
Dec 31, 2024•19 min•Ep. 2908
Dec 24, 2024•18 min•Ep. 2907
Dec 17, 2024•25 min•Ep. 2906
Dec 10, 2024•13 min•Ep. 2905
Dec 03, 2024•18 min•Ep. 2904
Nov 26, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2903
Nov 19, 2024•17 min•Ep. 2902
Nov 12, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2901
Nov 07, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2900
Co-Founder Eric Boduch joins Latka on stage to share how they got 2,842 leads in Q2 2017. This helped them hit $15m in ARR before growing to over $200m today in Sept 2024. Will Pendo hit $300m before Dec 2025?
Nov 05, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2899
Coro launched in 2015 with a bottom up approach to solving sercurity issues for the SMB and midmarket. Today, they've raised $282m in funding to go big, but how much have the founders been diluted? Can they grow into their $750m valuation?
Oct 31, 2024•16 min•Ep. 2898
