

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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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.

Apr 23, 2020 • 13min
1734 How He Hit $3.5m in ARR Selling HR Interview Tool
Originally a software engineer, and now serial entrepreneur, I love applying technology to solve real world problems, and like the best of ideas, Shine is an idea borne of frustration and real world experience of the recruitment process.

Apr 22, 2020 • 18min
1733 They're Raising $5m Right Now on $3.6m in ARR
Franz Riedl, co-founder of Styla, an agile Content Management System. Styla automates design and unifies content and e-commerce to create seamless inspiration and shopping experiences. Today, Styla works with more than 100 brands and retailers such as Footlocker, Otto Group, Thomas Sabo or OBI. Prior to Styla, Franz cofounded several gaming companies and worked as a consultant in strategy and innovation - supporting enterprises in tackling the challenges of digital transformation.

Apr 22, 2020 • 1h 23min
Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?

Apr 21, 2020 • 17min
1732 Why Is He "Waiting" To Drive Sales?
David spent 25 years in global equity research in both senior banking and asset management roles. He has watched the world's best presenters in action and designed a solution to enhance presentation impact while capturing all interaction details.


