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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Jul 22, 2020 • 13min
YetiCloud Does $280k in First Year Revenue Selling DevOp tool
Founder and CEO of YetiCloud, Tim is a software engineer who recently left Capital One's Tech Fellow program to make IT service desks non-existent. Tim has over ten years of experience in large-scale operations, product, and open source communities. Before founding YetiCloud, he worked for Puppet, FINRA, and the US Navy.
Jul 21, 2020 • 21min
QuestionPro Hits $20m Revenue, $5m Cash In Bank, Selling 60% Of Company For $50m Next?
I'm the founder of QuestionPro - a bootstrapped 20M run rate startup that helps companies measure and transform experiences. Born in India by way of Russia, Utah, Seattle, Bay Area - we are now in Austin - where I enjoy BBQ and briskets - we are on a mission to create a global, healthy, profitable SaaS company!
Jul 20, 2020 • 20min
GetRocket Has $1.6m In Bank, $5m 2019 Revenues, 100 Customers They Recruit For
CEO & Co-founder of Rocket. Previously, CEO & Co-founder of Renzu (acquired by SurveyMonkey), VP @Zynga, PM @Amazon and Consultant @McKinsey. HBS and Princeton.
Jul 19, 2020 • 19min
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?
Jul 18, 2020 • 17min
JustCall Hits $2.5m ARR, 60% Profits, Bootstrapped Helping 1600 Teams Use Cloud Phone Systems
Founder & CEO, SaaS Labs Inc (maker of JustCall). Chemical engineer by education but love writing code. 4x entrepreneur, 2 exits, sold last business to New York Times. Active angel investor in SaaS businesses.
Jul 17, 2020 • 13min
IamIP Hits $60k/mo, $3m Raised, 100 Customers Helping With Patent Management
I am a patent entrepreneur that teaches and trains technology companies, and IP managers how to make a patent management process more efficient and transparent by using the IAMIP platform. My clients have thousands of patents in their patent portfolio and are struggling every day to keep track of their competition. The IAMIP platform have organized over 5 M patents and my clients have received of 100K automated monitoring's. Inventor to over 17 patents in the space of power systems and co-founder of IamIP, the 3-time award winning patent software, recognized by the Swedish (Vinnova) and Norwegian (Forskningsrådet) innovation agency and trusted by multiple fortune 500 companies. Searching for patents manually and sharing information over email was 20 years ago. Now it's time to upgrade ourselves. Revolutionizing the IP industry is my passion and focus. As the voice of the patent management platforms that IamIP spearheads, I speak on stages around the world helping companies learn how 100.000 patents impacts them every week and what to do about it, to audiences of up to 1000. IamIP have developed a patent platform that gather all stakeholder in a company to capture and exchange information about patents that puts them one step ahead of competition.
Jul 16, 2020 • 21min
FreshRelevance Founders Put Up $500k To Start, Now $5m Revenue, 500 Customers
Mike Austin is the co-founder and CEO at Fresh Relevance. A serial entrepreneur, Mike founded his first software business when he was 16 and has been developing software and software businesses for more than two decades. Having worked in digital marketing for the majority of his career, Mike is an expert in tying digital experiences with traditional marketing databases, with a deep understanding of data and how to leverage it.
Jul 15, 2020 • 23min
Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?
Zvi Schreiber (pronounced "tzvee shryber") is the Founder and CEO of Freightos, the digital backbone for the trillion dollar international freight industry. Previously Zvi was CEO of Lightech (acquired by GE), and Founder and CEO of Unicorn (acuqired by IBM) and Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet) and G.ho.st a predecessor of dropbox which ended in a fire sale. Zvi has spoken widely and written many articles and patents. He has a PhD in computer science and is author of Fizz which tells the history of physics as a novel.
Jul 14, 2020 • 19min
Workable Hits $30m Run Rate, Burning $10m, Series C Valuation "Less Than $250m"
Nikos is the CEO of Workable, makers of the popular recruiting software used by 20,000 companies in 100 countries. He led the company from its inception in 2012 to a fast-growing organization with 300 employees in the USA and Europe, raising $95m of venture financing from elite European and American investors. Nikos has appeared as a speaker at the Nantucket Conference, SaaStr and SaaStock, and has been interviewed in popular podcasts and media like Forbes and the New York Times. Nikos holds a Computer Science degree from Imperial College, London. He lives with his wife and two children in Boston, MA. His twitter handle is @moraitakis.
Jul 13, 2020 • 32min
BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of BounceX, a marketing technology solution that brings a "logged-in" experience to logged-out website visitors across devices. Under Ryan's leadership, BounceX has been ranked #1 for employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld and named a best place to work by Crain's and Fortune.
