

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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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.

Mar 16, 2020 • 14min
1696 He Used FB Groups to Get First $3k in MRR
Mike is a jazz musician, smart entrepreneur and maker. He runs a portfolio of software companies including angage.net, scrapebook.net and fbradar.com which are bootstrapped and profitable from day 1. Additionally, Mike runs multiple digital marketing agencies that focus on helping businesses in different niche markets, currently managing more than 100,000 people on different social channels for clients.

Mar 15, 2020 • 16min
1695 How He Used Video Ads To Get First 450 Customers, $1k in MRR

Mar 14, 2020 • 12min
1694 How This 28 yo CEO Hit $70k in MRR with Patreon Partnership
Sai Hossain is the CEO of Crowdcast, a live-streaming & webinar platform for professional creators. Born in a small village in Bangladesh, Sai immigrated to the country at a young age and slowly made his way to silicon valley. There he teamed up with some great thinkers to design and build a new way for people to share ideas at scale.

Mar 13, 2020 • 16min
1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
Henrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & CEO of Brex — the first corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was 16. In three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. Prior to Pagar.me, Henrique built a number of online businesses in Brazil including an education company and a dating application.

Mar 12, 2020 • 11min
1692 How he Went From Soldier in Afgahnistan to Suriving 2 Failures To Help Non Profits Fundraise
Johns Hopkins. Army Ranger. 27 mo in Afghanistan. UNC MBA. Founder of Stop Soldier Suicide & GoodUnited. Husband & father of two.

Mar 11, 2020 • 19min
1691 Why This Company Rebranded with $950k Raised Helping Clients Customize Proposals
As ClientPoint’s President & CEO, Andy is a seasoned venture-backed high growth leader, with extensive board and operational experience. He has led the growth of large-scale digital media, SaaS, IoT, mobile and app businesses in the B2C and B2B sectors. Andy began his business career at NBC/GE after completing a successful career as a professional basketball player in Europe.

Mar 10, 2020 • 15min
1690 How He's Pivoting from $1m ARR SaaS To Consumer Data Play
Blake Smith is founder and CEO of Cladwell, a digital closet manager. Cladwell's goal is to manage the world's closets, by helping people do more with less. Cladwell resides at the intersection between math and art - much like Blake - who used his background in computational mathematics as a hedge fund analyst before joining the founding team of an agency that produced movies for Walmart, P&G, and many other Fortune 500 brands. In addition to Cladwell, Blake and his wife Chandler raise and homeschool 4 kids.

Mar 9, 2020 • 14min
1689 Why he Left MINDBODY To Build This Data Visualization Tech for SMB's
Andres is the CEO and Founder of iKizmet that delivers business analytics and insights to boutique fitness studio owners. With over 500,000 business in the fitness and wellness space iKizmet is making valuable data analysis tools affordable for small business owners to help them make data driven decisions faster without the complexity while helping to grow their businesses. Andres has been in the fitness and wellness space for over 15 years and was a founding member at MINDBODY helping build a world class sales and business development organization.

Mar 8, 2020 • 10min
1688 How He Leases Computing Power to Rendering Studios
Technical background, started as software developer. Co-founded my first business in 2001, entrepreneur since then. Went from startup owner to executive in a multi-national company, then back to startup founder. Now CEO of RenderStreet, backed by advanced tech and dedicated to reducing the stress levels of 3D artists and studios worldwide.