

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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May 2, 2020 • 25min
1743 Zapier Hits 100k Customers, $50m in ARR, Eye on Doubling YoY with New Partnerships
Wade Foster is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier, a workflow automation tool used by over three million people to connect the work apps they use every day. Prior to Zapier, Wade worked as a customer development lead for The Idea Works, Inc. in Missouri. He is an alumnus of Y Combinator and has degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

May 1, 2020 • 22min
1742 How Elastic.io Sold, Got Earnout and Hit $6m ARR in PaaS Space
CEO and co-founder elastic.io, before Talend, DHL and Nokia, geek, father of 3

Apr 30, 2020 • 1h 17min
When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth

Apr 30, 2020 • 11min
1741 CodeAcademy for Blockchain Developers Hits $4k MRR
I am a software engineer and entrepreneur who is currently down the blockchain rabbit hole. I have worked in various industries such as Travel and Sports. I started my company Zastrin last year to teach developers blockchain programming through real world projects. I love my family, food and travel.

Apr 29, 2020 • 20min
1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?
Leif is the co-founder, CEO of AND CO. The #1 freelancing software in the world, which was acquired by Fiverr in 2018. He is also a Parter at Prehype, a venture development firm in New York and investor in companies like Ro Health. He also co-founded Pay with a Tweet, which was acquired by the German company builder Hanse Ventures in 2013. Served as Director of Product for West Studios in San Francisco, where he worked with start ups like Rdio and Venmo. He also worked as Creative Director at R/GA. Leif was named one of the "Top Minds in Digital" by AdWeek and earned numerous awards including two Cannes Lion Grand Prix and a MTV OMusic Award. He's also an advisor to Venture Capital firm Urban.Us and a number of early stage companies.

Apr 28, 2020 • 12min
1739 Construction SaaS VIRUS Plan: $84k MRR, $300k Cash, -$25k Monthly Burn
I just hate wasting time or doing unnecessary tasks, doing things over because the first job was not good enough is event better. This happens again and again in construction projects. As a Computer Engineer, born and raises in the construction industry, I saw that I could solve this. It’s not done until it is CHECKD!

Apr 27, 2020 • 15min
1738 How He Got First Enterprise Customers to Pay $120k ACV's
Sonny Patel is the Founder & CEO at Insurmi, a white-labeled conversational A.I. platform that enables carriers to generate new business online, streamline claims, and provide excellent A.I. driven customer service. He is also a proud #YESPHX business leader who is passionate about helping other founders make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality!

Apr 26, 2020 • 19min
1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
>15 yrs software developer. In 2016 I quit my job with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, to found CodeLingo and tackle the Technical Debt crisis head on. In a 40hr work week, a developer spends over 17hrs on Tech Debt (https://bit.ly/2MSQr7b). I've become obsessed with fixing this and unlocking the true potential of development teams. CodeLingo does this by transforming the whole software stack into a big data problem, detects anti-patterns and then automates common development tasks, such as code reviews, bug fixes and generating contributor guidelines - to name a few. As developers, we're good at scaling up anything except ourselves. CodeLingo unlocks code quality at scale.

Apr 25, 2020 • 23min
1736 He'll Never Win Unless He Shuts Down Agency
Scott Weiss is the Founder of Referagig and President of Makena Partners, a technology recruiting firm. Both companies are based in Seattle, Washington.

Apr 24, 2020 • 22min
1735 Smarter to Buy vs Build, He bought Company for $10m, Now doing $20m in ARR 3 years later
Awareness Technologies, Inc. (ATI) provides endpoint security solutions for both home and business. With over 50 employees and offices in Westport, CT and Bristol, UK, ATI both develops and acquires market leading solutions trusted by millions of parents and thousands of businesses.