

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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Sep 6, 2019 • 21min
1504 Outreach Breaks $10m in New Bookings Per Quarter, Targeting $17m by Q4 2019
Manny Medina is CEO of Outreach, the leading sales engagement platform. Medina joined Amazon's AWS team as an early employee, and helped Microsoft drive the mobile division from launch to $50 million in annual revenue. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a computer science masters from University of Pennsylvania.

Sep 5, 2019 • 13min
1503 "How Xactly Plans To Hit $500m in ARR, Acquire and Cross Sell "
Chris Cabrera founded Xactly in 2005 and has since led Xactly from startup to IPO and private equity. Previously, Cabrera was SVP of operations for Callidus, acquiring 100+ customers and leading a successful IPO. He holds a B.S. and M.A. from USC and Santa Clara University.

Sep 4, 2019 • 20min
1502 Branch.io Raised $129m To Cover 18 Months Burn (-$7m/mo) For Deep Linking Play
Mada leads marketing as a co-founder of Branch, the industry-leading mobile measurement and deep linking platform, trusted by the most top ranking apps to increase efficiency and revenue. Born and raised in Romania, Mada came to the US to study Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and then earned her Masters of Engineering and MBA from Stanford. Mada enjoys playing the latest viral mobile game, binge-watching the hottest sci-fi show, and photographing Branch events. She regularly speaks about mobile growth at top tech events like Web Summit and Saastr, and she was included in Linkedin's Next Wave, 150 top professionals in 15 industries all under 35.

Sep 3, 2019 • 16min
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale
P.V. Kannan is the co-founder and chief executive officer of [24]7.ai, a global leader in intent-driven customer engagement. He holds more than 30 patents (issued and pending), and has been featured in several books as CX thought leader. His new book "The Age of Intent:," is now available on Amazon.

Sep 2, 2019 • 24min
1500 BullHorn Sold 60% Early On, Now $200m in ARR, E50+
Art Papas is the Founder and CEO of Bullhorn, Inc, the global leader in software for the staffing & recruitment industry. Art was the original architect of Bullhorn's flagship Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, which now helps more than 10,000 companies around the world run their businesses. Art is the Chairman of the Board at Career Collaborative, an organization that teaches unemployed and underemployed adults how to build careers that change lives and strengthen families. In 2014, Ernst & Young named Art an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner in New England.

Sep 1, 2019 • 12min
1499 Why She Chose VC over Private Equity
Eva is an investor at Vertex Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on enterprise technology. She has over a decade of experience in helping to build, scale and advise growing technology companies. Most recently, Eva led operations for Luxe Valet, a venture-backed on-demand startup. Prior to Luxe, Eva was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

Aug 31, 2019 • 21min
1498 Why He Took $1.6M in Venture Debt From Lighter Capital
Marc Aubin is CEO of AppBuddy, creators of GridBuddy and AppBuddy Cloud. We've helped thousands of companies do what is not natively possible in Salesforce and SAP -- easily take data from hard to reach places and put it into consolidated, actionable workspaces. So now instead of having to create business processes from the ground up, admins, developers and even end users can leverage what they already have and quickly evolve their operational processes in response to changing customer needs.

Aug 30, 2019 • 19min
1497 He Grew Hubspot Partner Program, Now $91k in MRR at DataBox
Peter Caputa is the CEO of Databox. He helps companies grow by implementing sales and marketing excellence. He's worked with 100s of businesses directly as well as helped 100s of agencies and media companies grow by helping their clients achieve predictable, measurable and improvable ROI from the marketing and advertising services they provide.

Aug 29, 2019 • 16min
1496 Employee Engagement Platform in Brazil Passes $1.8M ARR, Raising $3m on $10m Pre
Alessandro Garcia, CEO from Solides, a startup that provide a HR Behavioral Management Software to improve performance and reduce turn-over costs. A SaaS company with 100 employees and more than 1,000 cutomers in Brazil. Statistician from UFMG, courses at Stanford and Berkeley.

Aug 28, 2019 • 14min
1495 Mom of Newborn Passes $1m Run Rate Helping Businesses Text Customers
Adi is co-founder & CEO of IMpower Solutions, which provides businesses with tools to text with their customers. Adi started IMpower in 2011, after realizing how much consumers hate calling businesses and businesses have low response rates when they call customers. Texting is a win-win solution for both sides.


