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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Mar 26, 2020 • 14min

1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers

Deepak has 20 years of experience in product and marketing roles at storage, application and networking companies. He has served in leadership positions at Druva, Riverbed, Sun, AOL and at Netscape where he launched several products. Deepak has an MBA from UC, Berkeley and an MS in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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Mar 25, 2020 • 16min

1705 Would You Ever Put $1m Of Your Own Money In Before Turning on Revenue?

Scott grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and studied business at PSU. After working as a 3D VFX Artist, Scott ventured into manufacturing, wholesale and distribution of electronic novelties. During the recession Scott realized that business had changed forever and in order to compete businesses were going to need a whole new set of tools. This gave rise to Sellution.
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Mar 24, 2020 • 19min

1704 Virus Hits, He's Burning $80k/mo With Just $300k Left in Bank, $3m in ARR, What Should He Do?

Serial entrepreneur with a wide experience in IT domain from software development to services and software/solution sales. +20 years in enterprise service management. Excellent track record of building and leading winning teams. Personal goal: help business leaders to see information technology as an organic and critical part of their businesses, not just hard-to-understand-expensive-techie-driven-cost center.
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Mar 23, 2020 • 10min

1703 Virus Will Drive Major Growth at This SaaS Company as Restaurants Move Delivery "In House", $20m+ Revenue

Dhruv serves LogiNext as the CEO and has been recognized as one of the youngest and fastest growing SaaS CEOs in the US. He has previously worked with Deloitte leading consulting assignments for some of the Fortune 500 clients and has extensive experience in advising enterprises and governments on how to rebuild their transportation stack to match the expectations of the new age customer. Under his leadership, LogiNext, has quickly become a household name for companies trying to deliver goods to their customers in a faster, cheaper and better way with the use of AI and enterprise maps. LogiNext currently serves more than 100 large enterprises and has been growing 200% YoY. LogiNext is valued at more than $100mn by marquee investors like Tiger Global Management, Steadview Capital and Alibaba.
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Mar 22, 2020 • 22min

1702 She's About to Pass $1m in ARR in AI Text Analytics Feedback

Dr. Narjès Boufaden is a pioneer and thought leader in the Natural Language Processing field who transitioned from the academic world to run her company. She founded Keatext in 2010 for professional services in AI, then pivoted into a product company in 2015. Narjes is also a contributor at Forbes and a dedicated mentor at Techstar AI.
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Mar 21, 2020 • 18min

1701 How He Turned 50k Free Users into $12k in MRR

Vaibhav Domkundwar is an entrepreneur & seed investor with dual bases in Silicon Valley and India. Vaibhav runs Better (the parent company of PicBackMan) which is a micro venture firm that builds & invests in category-defining businesses at the seed stage. Prior to Better, Vaibhav cofounded mobile roaming platform leader Roamware, which was acquired by Audax. Vaibhav is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley and runs marathons to put health & fitness as high up as his work & family.
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Mar 20, 2020 • 20min

1700 How A Bootstrapped $3m Revenue CEO Plans to Handle Virus, Potential Cashflow Issues

Steve is the founder and CEO of Badger Maps. After receiving his MBA from Stanford, Steve was Google Enterprise's Top Sales Executive in 2009. In 2012, Steve founded Badger Maps, a software company that helps Field Sales People optimize their routes and schedules to save time and be on time so they can sell more. Steve is also the host of the Outside Sales Talk podcast where he interviews industry experts on their top sales tips.
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Mar 19, 2020 • 21min

1699 UserTesting Grabs $100m Series D w/ $84m in Revenues While Rest Of World Virus Panics, How Will CEO Spend Money?

Andy brings 20 years of enterprise SaaS experience to UserTesting. As a former product executive at Oracle and Salesforce, he saw the critical role that customer centricity plays in creating great experiences. By helping companies become more customer-centric, he has grown multiple enterprise SaaS businesses to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Mar 18, 2020 • 29min

1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?

George Arison is the co-founder of Shift, an online marketplace disrupting the used car industry. An immigrant from Georgia and lifelong entrepreneur, he also co-founded the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), as well as working for Google and BCG.
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Mar 17, 2020 • 14min

1697 Opensource Version of Hubspot Moves from Enterprise Service to SMB SaaS

I'm a social entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of erxes Inc, an open source growth marketing platform. Marketing, sales, and customer service platform designed to help your business attract more engaged customers. I'm passionate about social entrepreneurship and possesses a strong desire to create new solutions to social problems and then implement them on a large scale to change society for the better.

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