SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
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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Aug 1, 2020 • 21min
NoteAffect MVP Cost $1.6m, Founder Bootstrapping Using Cash From Last Exit
I am an entrepreneur. I like to transform ideas into working business models with multiple revenue streams. NoteAffect is my new venture (7th company) that provides software technology for the Education, Corporate, and Government sectors. I recently exited my 6th company, Core-apps.
Jul 31, 2020 • 25min
Big brands, manufacturers with raw material (oil plastic) where going factory to warehouse.
Adam Compain is the Founder & CEO of ClearMetal. Prior to ClearMetal, Adam spent 5 years at Google launching their geoCommerce technology and 19 years as the Executive Director of SEND, the nonprofit he founded. Adam holds five technology patents, two degrees from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Stanford.
Jul 30, 2020 • 20min
Qebot Raising $1.5m With $1.2m in ARR Helping 1500 SMB's Be More Productive
Matthew White is the CEO of Qebot. With a background in the digital marketing and mobile advertising sectors, Matthew and his partner Cornelius built Qebot to make businesses, franchises, and marketing agencies more productive by centralizing SaaS applications into a single platform.
Jul 29, 2020 • 33min
PandaDoc Hits 14k Customers, $100+ ARPU, "Will Hit $19m in ARR in 2019"
Jul 28, 2020 • 14min
"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "
Akash Srivastava is Co-founder and CEO of Vested Technology, a recruiting automation platform. Vested Technology works alongside teams to identify, engage and hire passive candidates saving companies tons of money on additional headcount or agencies. Prior to founding Vested, Akash led finance at Handy and worked several roles on Wall Street. He took the scenic route to entrepreneurship; but he's a huge believer of 'better late than never'!
Jul 27, 2020 • 13min
Advensure Launches, Hits 125 Customers in 4 Months Using 1 Big Channel
Founder at Advensure & Ekahal. Love solving problems. Scuba Diving Dive Master and hopeful Scuba Instructor. Amateur(ish) Photographer. Awaiting freedom of time to travel.
Jul 26, 2020 • 17min
EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform
CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, a tech company using real-time analytics to help businesses improve talent retention and productivity. Columbia & Cambridge alum, economist by training. Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders shaping the future of Asia.
Jul 25, 2020 • 14min
Utm.io Hits 100 Customers, $75k Invested From Agency Biz, Now SaaS Focus
UTM.io is the internet's most loved UTM link builder. UTM.io is widely used by the best companies and enables teams of all sizes to get better campaign tracking data.
Jul 24, 2020 • 27min
GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers
Sid's passionate about empowering open source, enabling great products, and evolving global processes. A self-taught Ruby developer, Sid commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from Y-Combinator in 2015. Since then, GitLab has grown to 800+ remote team members across 55+ countries, and raised $188.2M in funding.
Jul 23, 2020 • 17min
Churnly Burning $40k/mo, Hits 20 Customers, $200k Revenue Helping SaaS Companies Reduce Churn
3 x SaaS founder with 2 exits + former COO at The Guardian. Dropped out of school at 16, started first company at 24. Currently building Churnly to help companies deeply understand their ICP, analyze online customer behavior and predict churn. Competitive mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brown belt. Lives in London.
