SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka
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Jan 23, 2020 • 14min

1643 How His Fathers Death Helped Him Grow $0 to $50k in MRR in 8 Months

Recovering lawyer (degrees from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and Duke in the US, accredited to practice in Guatemala and NY). Investpreneur (investor and entrepreneur). Co-Founder at Nahual Ventures, ExeBoard, Edoo, and SoyFri. Dreamer. Guatemalan born and living in New York. I serve as Board Member in my family's business since 2015, as well as in the Guatemalan Stock Exchange, two startups, and Fundegua, a Foundation I co-founded aimed at promoting culturally and research driven aid in education and health in Guatemala and as a Trustee at Universidad Francisco Marroquin. This experiences gave me the insights and understanding to co-found ExeBoard.
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Jan 22, 2020 • 12min

1642 How He Spent $150k To Buy Struggling SaaS Copmany, Now At $5M in ARR

Business leader and entrepreneur building motivated team in high energy business. Owner of SHE Software Ltd, fast growing SaaS solution to health and safety challenges. Leader in UK, entering US - home in Scotland and Chicago. Previously CEO and consultant (McKinsey), member of Prime Minister's policy team. MBA from INSEAD and BA from Oxford.
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Jan 21, 2020 • 15min

1641 How He Helps Medical Devices Get To Market Faster, 0-$1m in ARR in 12 Months

Jared Seehafer is the CEO and Cofounder of Enzyme, a software company that automates life science regulatory approval and compliance. He is a 12 year veteran of the medical device and biopharma industries, having worked or consulted at organizations ranging from Amgen, Abbott and Medtronic to seed-stage startups.
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Jan 20, 2020 • 12min

1640 How He's Scaled to $200k in MRR off $200/mo Plans

Marc Rutzen is the CoFounder and CEO of Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Enodo helps users analyze more deals in less time and make better investment decisions backed by data science. Utilizing machine learning, the platform collects, cleans and analyzes real-time multifamily rent and availability data from over two million properties nationwide. Marc oversees Enodo's data science, engineering and business teams to continually develop and release industry changing features. Marc is a Licensed Managing Broker in the State of Illinois and earned his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.
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Jan 19, 2020 • 19min

1639 How This Company Hit $10M Valuation Serving Real Estate Value Investors

Marc Rutzen is the CoFounder and CEO of Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate. Enodo helps users analyze more deals in less time and make better investment decisions backed by data science. Utilizing machine learning, the platform collects, cleans and analyzes real-time multifamily rent and availability data from over two million properties nationwide. Marc oversees Enodo's data science, engineering and business teams to continually develop and release industry changing features. Marc is a Licensed Managing Broker in the State of Illinois and earned his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University.
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Jan 18, 2020 • 11min

1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking

Ethan Keiser is the CEO and founder of StudyTree, an app leveraging artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile academic assistant. He received his B.S from Drexel University in Computer Science before founding StudyTree. Ethan has won various business plan competitions including the Microsoft Imagine Cup and Dell Innovation Award, and regularly speaks about artificial intelligence at top education conferences. When not working on StudyTree, he spends time weightlifting and hiking. He is fluent in 7 languages: English and six computer languages.
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Jan 17, 2020 • 15min

1637 The Art of Shifting $60M in 1991 Revenue to Pure SaaS

Robert Alves - Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Solutions International (ASI) – is a dynamic, entrepreneurial leader who has grown the company from its beginnings in 1991 to become the leading and largest supplier worldwide of software to non-profit organizations. With offices on three continents, and more than 4,000 clients served, Alves has kept ASI in the forefront by consistently making innovative solution-oriented decisions on behalf of its clients.
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Jan 16, 2020 • 10min

1636 How 3 Month Old Harvestr Is Thinkng About Its First Paywall

I am the cofounder and CEO of Harvestr, a product management platform for customer-driven teams. I have a double background in business and engineering and I have worked in various industries : smartphones, environmental services and even in the French public administration. I am also a soccer player and DJ.
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Jan 15, 2020 • 19min

1635 How He Plans to Get Churn Under 30% Annually in Event SaaS Space

Aaron Lifshin is the CEO and founder of MeetingPulse. He has a 20-year track record creating and managing award-winning technical teams in the US and the UK. Successful exit: XLN Telecom, as CTO. Aaron is passionate about genuine human communication in all forms. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
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Jan 14, 2020 • 13min

1634 Why This Founder Knows He Has To be 100% Owner (And Thats Not a Bad Thing)

Built two profitable startups and then sold them (one e-commerce national, and one international). The last startup I've got VC investment without meeting the investors, I've incorporated in Ireland without ever going to Ireland, I've run an 8 people team all remote, became profitable and sold it in 2017. I like going from 0 to 1. I've been in two accelerators.

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