

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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Jan 28, 2018 • 16min
918 SaaS: Fraud Prevention Company Raises $54m, Passes 500 Customers
Rob is the Chief Executive Officer of Coupa, and drives the company's strategy and execution. Rob has over two decades experience in the business software industry. He came to Coupa from SuccessFactors, where he ran Global Product Marketing & Management, as a member of the executive management team, as the company scaled from an early start up to a successful public company. Prior to that, Rob directed Product Management at Siebel Systems, where he helped build Siebel ERM into one of the company's fastest growing product lines. Rob also did a stint in management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and spent four years at Accenture, where he focused on global SAP systems implementations. Rob is a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford business schools, and a frequent contributor to Forbes and Fortune magazines. He can often be heard providing commentary on major news channels including Bloomberg and NPR. Rob earned a BS in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jan 27, 2018 • 18min
917 SaaS: How To Help Non-Profits and Build $12m ARR Company
Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising tools for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate global social impact. Since 2011, fundraising on the Classy platform has doubled each yearâ€"resulting in thousands of nonprofits collectively raising over half a billion dollars.

Jan 26, 2018 • 20min
916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name

Jan 25, 2018 • 16min
915 He Hunts Down University IP and Figures Out How to Commercialize at Scale

Jan 24, 2018 • 20min
914 Finally Gamers Get Rid of Lag Using New, $6m Funded Tool
Adam Toll was set on solving a big problem for video gamers: internet lag. Adam invented Haste with cofounder Taric Mirza, which uses next-generation network software that reduces lag and improves overall network stability. Adam was the first Haste investor and previously Co-Founder and COO of BigChampagne.

Jan 23, 2018 • 24min
913 Adtech: Revenues of $110m on $500m Spend, How it breaks down
Shawn Riegsecker founded Centro in 2001 intent on building software to eliminate operational inefficiencies, solve growing complexity and fragmentation challenges, and help marketers make smarter decisions. He has built Centro into one of the largest providers of media operations software and managed services in the industry.

Jan 22, 2018 • 20min
912 SaaS: Internet Hacker Builds Bootstrapped Productivity Tool, Passes $2.4m in ARR
Rob is a former medical doctor turned Internet entrepreneur who is now running Timedoctor.com and Staff.com. He is from Sydney Australia and has grown to love all things SaaS.

Jan 21, 2018 • 16min
911 SaaS: Instapage passes $10m+ ARR Competing with Optimizely, Unbounce
Tyson Quick is a digital marketing wiz who’s focused on perfecting the landing page optimization process. Tyson founded Instapage in 2012 after seeing how marketers were losing money in wasted ad spend. His vision since then has been to create a landing page platform that maximizes returns through advertising personalization.

Jan 20, 2018 • 21min
910 Sales Call Technology On How To Sign 1000+ Seat Accounts, Pass $24m in ARR
Eric Esfahanian is CRO of Gryphon Networks, a Boston-based Saas company that specializes in driving phone-based sales effectiveness for large distributed sales teams. With over 30 design and process patents covering every aspect of advanced telephony, Gryphon counts ADT, Sprint, Santander, and New York Life among over 700 enterprise clients.

Jan 19, 2018 • 17min
909 AdTech: How to Get Advertisers to Put $20m Through Your Platform While You take 5%-50%
Vitaly is a co-founder of StackAdapt, a venture-backed advertising technology company that helps brands accelerate customer acquisition. StackAdapt was named Top 20 Most Innovative Emerging companies in Canada in 2017 by CIX. StackAdapt was a part of STARTUP 50 of Canada’s Top New Growth Companies in 2017 by CanadianBusiness.


