

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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Dec 15, 2019 • 17min
1604 Would You Sell "One Time For Life" Plans If You're Trying to Build an Enduring SaaS Company?
Founder, CEO at Plutio.com

Dec 14, 2019 • 12min
1603 How She Used a Tracking Watch To Get Her First 1000 Customers, $20k MRR
Karen Cantwell is a born innovator. In 2014 she launched TicTocTrack® - the first GPS smart watch globally for children, following up with a bespoke software-monitoring platform. That platform now hosts multiple GPS devices providing one platform for the safety of all the family. Karen hold's a MBA from QUT.

Dec 13, 2019 • 14min
1602 How He Used Dev Shop Agency to Launch ECommerce AI Tool and Get 36 First Customers
Frank is an Entrepreneur and a Technologist. Frank has launched 100s of sites, 50+ apps, 10s of digital products, launched 9 businesses (4 for himself), delivered a line of high-end beverages to market, and consulted in the finance and technology industries.

Dec 12, 2019 • 17min
1601 If All Content Becomes 3d With AR, VR, This CEO Will Be At The Center Of It
Sai Krishna is often described as an accidental entrepreneur. As an engineering undergrad, Sai built his first startup in the education technology space to power thousands of students to better use tablet PCs. Since then, he's founded, invested and mentored startups all through, particularly in the technology space. He is also an alumnus of stanford university graduate school of business, and the founder of scapic, a cloud based virtual and augmented reality content platform helping businesses and users generate AR/VR experiences without coding. Scapic was a part of Y combinator startup school, and was recently recognized by Facebook as one of India's top VR/AR startups, in their school of innovation program.

Dec 11, 2019 • 17min
1600 He Makes His Team Only Work 4 Days A Week Even If You Think Its Wrong
Benjamin Ellis has worked with companies including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks during their fastest periods of growth. He is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has worked at the cutting edge of technology over three decades and is passionate about what technology can achieve, particularly at the intersection of people, data and software.

Dec 10, 2019 • 9min
1599 How to Spin a Company Out and Run It Yourself, Even if You Have No Control To Start
Bohumil studied Innovation and Operation Management in Copenhagen. He went on to work at West Virginia University Innovation center, where he was in charge of their marketing strategy. In March 2016, he returned to Slovakia, where he got an offer to join the team at Triad Advertising and take over their internal software Kontentino. After just 2 years, he and his team were able to get Kontentino into more than 800 agencies and brands around the world--Today, the software is used by famous brands, such as ASAHI beer and Volvo, as well as advertising agencies like BBDO, Ogilvy, or VML.

Dec 9, 2019 • 12min
1598 Mom of 2 Transitions $250k Agency to $23k/mo SaaS for Consumer Video Reviews
Bernadette Butler has 20 years experience in advertising working with some of the greatest brands of our time. With 2 ads on the world's funniest reel, Bernadette is the CEO and co-founder of StoryTap, a DIY video platform for marketers to direct, own, and micro-influence authentic video stories at scale.

Dec 8, 2019 • 19min
1597 How He Used a Search Fund To Build $7m ARR Company, Low Risk
Will Bressman is the CEO of RIA in a Box and a former manager of business development at LX.TV, a digital media content provider acquired by NBC Universal in 2008, where he brokered distribution and content partnerships. Prior to LX.TV, Bressman worked on strategy and analytics projects at Good Morning America. Bressman holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude with a degree in History.

Dec 7, 2019 • 10min
1596 How He Got His First 700 Customers at $2/seat for Scrum Slack Bot
Since 16 I earn money online, at 34 haven't worked for anyone. In 2014 I moved to the south of Russia to open a co-working space by the sea. Later, it became a school of robotics for children. In 2016 I co-founded Standuply, one of the most popular Slack bots.

Dec 6, 2019 • 20min
1595 Chegg Founder's New SaaS Company Breaks $7m ARR To Help CNBC Communicate
Osman Rashid, winner of the prestigious Ernst & Young California Entrepreneur of the Year (2009), was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rental and student hub Chegg ($chgg), remaining involved in it until early 2010 after dramatically growing the company from its inception in 2005. Currently, he is the CEO of Convo Corp, an enterprise software company that focuses on In-Context collaboration that replaces email as the conversation tool at work.


