

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 9, 2019 • 21min
1354 Mortgage Lending Software Passes $2m in ARR, Bootstrapped
LBA Ware™ CEO Lori Brewer is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology leader. Following the conclusion of her service in the U.S. Air Force, Brewer has dedicated her talents to improving the mortgage industry. She founded LBA Ware in 2008 to deliver business process optimization through LBA Ware's flagship products CompenSafe™ and LOS Talker™.

Apr 8, 2019 • 28min
1353 How To Bootstrap to $200k in MRR
Payman Taei is an avid technologist who loves new trends and tries to keep up with the ever-evolving internet. Taei's background in Biology led him to truly believe in the art of evolution: everything changes in time and you either follow or create new trends or are left behind. Taei founded HindSite Interactive, a digital agency, in 2001 and out of that in 2014 incubated Visme, one of the leading presentation and infographic tools online. Visme empowers more than a million businesses, non-profits and individuals from over 90 countries, including NASA, IBM, and SONY, by improving the way ideas are visualized into engaging presentations, infographics and other forms of visual content.

Apr 7, 2019 • 18min
1352 B2B Version of Venmo About to Pass $5m in ARR
Jeremy has spent the last 15 years in the tech-industry as a serial entrepreneur, startup adviser, and occasional investor. Jeremy has helped dozens of B2B companies drive adoption of digital commerce, and is still an active board member at a number of fintech companies. He started his career in technology as an engineer at nanotech startup Digital Instruments, which was acquired by Veeco (NASDAQ: VECO). Jeremy holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California and a Masters in Business from the University of Massachusetts.

Apr 6, 2019 • 21min
1351 Why OwnLocal CEO Turned Down $17m Offer to Keep Helping Newspapers Digitize
After working inside newspapers for 10+ years, Lloyd started OwnLocal to fix the business of news. With initial seed investment from Y Combinator, OwnLocal has grown to work with 276,000 SMBs through 3,500 newspaper partners all over the world. Today, OwnLocal is profitable and growing with 8-figure revenues.

Apr 5, 2019 • 12min
1350 1b API Calls Per Day, $6m in ARR Helping TicketMaster Make Recommendations
James is the founder and CEO of Adzerk, an API company that powers native ads, promotions, and sponsored listings for companies like Ticketmaster, Wattpad, imgur, and many others. Prior to Adzerk, James co-founded TekPub which was acquired by PluralSight.

Apr 4, 2019 • 17min
1349 Blogger Mentions Tool, Now $100k in ARR and CEO Doubling Down
Web entrepreneur with an IT background working on his second startup.

Apr 3, 2019 • 21min
1348 His BlockChain Wallet Will be on 100m Phones by EOY 2018, Does He Make Money?
Worked in Telecom for much of my carrier. Starting as EIR at IDT Telecom. Then worked as director of mobile apps for PCS wireless. It's there that I saw the market opportunity. I left PCS, sold my home and launched UpChannel.

Apr 2, 2019 • 19min
1347 "Our minimum is $500m" Says Ecommerce Tool CEO
Chad Rubin (Ecommerce Renegade) builds e-commerce businesses. Fresh out of college and Wall Street, he took his family vacuum business online and built his own direct to consumer e-commerce business called Crucial Vacuum. He grew it from 0 a $20 million dollar valuation in just 7 years. He happens to be a top 250 Amazon seller. He co-founded Skubana with DJ Kunovac and built one of e-commerce's hottest operational softwares.

Apr 1, 2019 • 21min
1346 How CommercialTribe Broke 125% Net Revenue Retention Annually
For the first 18 years of my career, I built and scaled sales organizations at both Gartner and CEB. The corporate cultures instilled a sales rigor and discipline that has helped me to appreciate the complexities of sales management, operations, as well as the development of reps and their managers.

Mar 31, 2019 • 15min
1345 With $1m in ARR This MarTech Company Raising $3.5m in $12m Pre Money Valuation
Serial Entrepreneur (1 Acquisition & 2 disastrous failures prior to this venture) and Online Advertising expert with more than 8 years of experience in advertising for retail brands and their retail locations.


