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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Oct 7, 2023 • 15min
Economics of a $37,500 Pre Seed Uncapped Convertible Note
The podcast discusses the transition from manager to entrepreneur, the importance of productive conversations in the workplace, the terms of a convertible note investment, acquiring first customers, and updates on the guest's business.
Oct 6, 2023 • 18min
Crazy years: from $60M in secondaries to layoffs & back to cash positive
Oct 5, 2023 • 20min
How We Bootstrapped Backblaze from $0 to IPO and $87m in ARR
Learn about the founders of Backblaze and their decision to bootstrap their company instead of seeking venture funding. Discover how they focused on their product and customers for 15 years before taking the company public in 2021. They discuss revenue growth, the advantages of building value and culture, and the importance of timing, metrics, and preparation when going public. The chapter also explores the process of selling shares post-roadshow and the significance of having a diverse investor base.
Oct 4, 2023 • 21min
How to Convince High-Performers to Take a Pay Cut & Work for You
Oct 3, 2023 • 16min
9 Lessons from Building Marketing Teams at HubSpot, Drift, and Airmeet
Learn about the key elements for building a successful marketing team, the significance of vision and values, team rituals and monthly priorities, integrated campaigns and aligning marketing and sales teams, and building a high-performing marketing team through tracking progress, hiring for character, upskilling employees, and fostering team cohesion.
Oct 2, 2023 • 22min
SaaStock Starts Oct 16th in Dublin, 5000 SaaS Founders and Big Bootstrap Stage
October 16th in Dublin. Meet 5000 SaaS founders in a week or so. Aircall Co-Founder will share how he hit $130m ARR. Muck Rack founder will share why he did $180m Series A and secondary after bootstrapping to $50m.
Sep 29, 2023 • 15min
Can this company leverage 250 engineer beta testers for bug testing tool to close $3m pre seed round?
Mobile bug testing company got 20 companies and 250 engineers using their platform to identify 50 bugs per week. Question is, can they convert these users into real paying customers? They quit their full time jobs in June and hope to have revenue by this December.
Sep 28, 2023 • 16min
Ukrainian Volunteer Group Uses This App to Raise $200k/mo, Now Available to Western Customers
Sep 27, 2023 • 14min
24 year old hits $30k MRR in 6 months with unique SaaS cold email scripts
Zero to $30k in MRR in 8 months. Yash reveals the scripts he used to cold email and linkedin message his first 5 paying customers. He profits $10k/mo and things a valuation of $2.5m is too low. How long will it take him to hit $60k in MRR for his influencer marketing search tool?
Sep 26, 2023 • 17min
HR Tech Exec Invested $200k into his own HR SaaS, Raising $200k on $3m Valuation Now
Ex Corporate HR Exec builds nest egg to launch HR tech SaaS. Discusses using HR SaaS platforms for employee engagement and people analytics. Highlights customer size and first contract. Talks about HR SaaS company's current funding round and personal financial sacrifices.
