

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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Feb 1, 2019 • 22min
1287 Why He Left Salesforce After $50m+ Acquisition to Build Kustomer.com
Brad has been building Customer Support companies for more than 20 years. Previously he was the Co-founder of Assistly, which was acquired by Salesforce and became Desk.com. Prior to that he was CTO for Talisma and Co‑founder & CTO of eShare Technologies.

Jan 31, 2019 • 21min
1286 RippleMatch Giving Employers 1000's of High Quality Student Talent Per Month, $125k in MRR
Originally from Denver, Andrew studied history and was Phi Beta Kappa at Yale before dropping out his senior year to pursue RippleMatch. He listens to clients, runs sales, and is obsessed with helping students and companies find the right match.

Jan 30, 2019 • 15min
1285 Bootstrapped Mumbai Based Social Listening Tool Breaks $1.2m in ARR, Up 100% YoY
I am the founder and chief software architect at Konnect Insights - a SaaS product that is widely used by many top brands and agencies. My core strengths are technology, marketing and sales. I started my career back in 2004 as a software programmer and when I started my company in 2012 I started donning many caps such as strategy, marketing, sales and legal. I have experience of working on financial domain and today I am a digital analytics expert.

Jan 29, 2019 • 19min
1284 How He Uses Lifetstyle Business To Fund SaaS Startup
From Slovenia/Europe. B.S. Electrical Engineering. 31 years old. This is our third startup. First failed miserably. Second became lifestyle business. Love sports and creativity. I'll produce a movie by 2025.

Jan 28, 2019 • 22min
1283 $100m Exit Was $45m Cash Upfront, Using To Launch New $10/mo Website Builder with 3250 Customers
Born in USSR, got a war there, was refugee, moved to Ukraine, co-founded TemplateMonster.com. Grew it to 100M company and then sold out to PE. Started Weblium to build a McDonalds in Web Design Industry. Married, four kids, two wife's, three dogs, five homes, 10 700 phonebook contacts, 100 conferences a year, military business and lots of fun. When the war started in Ukraine, founded the largest crowdfunding platform Peoplesproject.com to help wounded souldiers, became an advisor to the Minister of Defense, civil activist. Recently started to join a blockchain world first as an advisor and planning to complete some government projects based on a blockchain.

Jan 27, 2019 • 25min
1282 With $12m in ARR, ConvertKit Makes Major Change Removing CC Trial, Will it work?
In previous careers Nathan has been a designer, author, and blogger. After learning the power of email marketing he gave up a successful blogging career to build ConvertKit. Outside of work Nathan spends his time playing soccer, woodworking, and chasing after his two little boys.

Jan 26, 2019 • 29min
1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth
Joe is a lifelong entrepreneur and founded two successful internet companies before Contently. In 2012, Joe and his co-founders were named to Inc.'s 30 Under 30 list.

Jan 25, 2019 • 15min
1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?
CloudKPI is entrepreneur Maeve Kneafsey's ( pron; May-V Kneef-Sea) fourth start up. Her latest venture addresses the frustrations involved in setting up and maintaining cross-business metrics for SaaS businesses, a segment growing to a multi-billion dollar value. CloudKPI, which is raising a seed round, has completed programs at Plug & Play Tech and Womens' Start-Up Lab. Maeve previously founded Amas, Ireland's first digital marketing and analytics agency (exit 2003), digital marketing agency Elucidate (exit 2015) and Fintech SaaS benchmarking solution MarketFinder. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin she now splits her time between offices in Dublin, Ireland and San Francisco, USA.

Jan 24, 2019 • 19min
1279 He Does $6m in Event Revenue Annually, now SaaS
Dale Beaumont is an Award-Winning Technology Entrepreneur, International Speaker and the Author of 16 Best-Selling books. Dale started his first business at 19 and has been building companies ever since. One of those companies is now a multimillion dollar enterprise, which has enabled Dale to become an Investor, Philanthropist and to step foot in more than 80 countries. Today Dale is the founder and CEO of Bizversity – a revolutionary product, which gives you direct access to 'The World's Best Business Training. Anywhere, Anytime.

Jan 23, 2019 • 13min
1278 How This Brazilian SaaS Pricing Tool Went From $40k to $100k in MRR in 12 Months
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS), post graduate in project management and co-founder of Intuitive Intelligence, a CRO company sold in 2016 to PMWEB, a Wunderman Company. Entrepreneur for 10 years. After Intuitive Intelligence exit, founded Intellibrand, a leading B2B tech company with a SaaS business model focused on data intelligence and analytics. Our vision is to disrupt the current collaboration model between brands and retailers globally and become the authority in digital trade marketing offering a new collaborative business model to help brands and retailers thrive in ecommerce.


