

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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Jul 16, 2021 • 14min
He couldn't have a baby, built software to solve the problem, now $500k ARR
Jake Diner is a former Big Ten Track and Field Champion, who graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Computer Science in 2001. He spent the first 10 years of his career in a global product management leadership roles working for multinationals like Dell and Belkin. Since founding his first startup in 2011 and raising tens of millions in venture funding, Jake has been in entrenched in an entrepreneurial journey of building companies and solving global tech problems affecting millions. His current company Fertility Cloud, where Jake serves as a CEO, is on a mission to bring affordable and accessible fertility treatment to all in need.

Jul 15, 2021 • 16min
CPG Data SaaS Doubles to $1.6m ARR, Raising $3m on $18m Now
Pan has been managing projects and firms across various industries with a focus on eBusiness & Technology. Amongst his roles was Head of Business Planning, for the leading mobile commerce firm, Upstream, with business development responsibilities in 40 countries. He founded Convert Group on 2014 as an eCommerce Consultancy and in 2019 they pivoted into an Enterprise SaaS with his partner, Elena.

Jul 14, 2021 • 23min
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)
Eran is the CEO & Co-Founder of Bizzabo, an all-in-one Event Success Platform and one of the fastest growing event tech companies in the world. He has led Bizzabo in winning the People's Choice Award at the Event Tech Awards for three years in a row. Before he founded Bizzabo, Eran was an event marketer and served as the CEO of the Rosh-Pina Media Convention. He also was a team leader and systems engineer at Elbit Systems. Eran graduated cum laude from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where he studied Business and participated in the prestigious Zell Entrepreneurship Program - often considered the Y Combinator of Israel.

Jul 13, 2021 • 18min
PE Just Ate JazzHR, Here are their metrics 1 year ago
Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business market with deep experience in B2B high velocity new customer acquisition. As CEO of JazzHR, Lamson is responsible for JazzHR's strategic direction, company performance, day-to-day business operations, and serves as a support center for our revenue teams.

Jul 12, 2021 • 17min
My Favorite Bootstrapped SaaS Founder ($122k MRR)
Dmytro Okunyev is the founder and owner of Chanty, a team communication platform. Dmytro started toying with the idea of a chat app back in 2017, he realized that team communication should be made easier, more flexible and powerful so that it encompasses chat, audio and video.

Jul 11, 2021 • 18min
Why SaaS Founders Use Them as SDR's, First Sales Hire
Founder of Fullfunnel.io ( Full-Funnel B2B marketing for B2B Service-Based, Tech and SaaS companies) and ROIplan (marketing planning platform). I live and breathe B2B marketing since 2007. Author of ""LinkedIn Content Marketing: How to generate high-quality B2B leads on LinkedIn without cold messaging and ads"" book that was awarded as the best B2B marketing ebook and was included to 100 Best B2B Marketing Books of All Time by Bookauthority.

Jul 10, 2021 • 16min
ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans
An engineer from a young age, previously CTO/R&D manager in a number of Israeli startups, ex-Googler turned entrepreneur and CEO, changing the US education financing. Running a successful all-remote company now for 5 years, and a strong believer in remote as a way of life.

Jul 9, 2021 • 35min
Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?
"Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai. Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur who's successfully exited several companies on that theme. His long-term vision of killing the inbox led to the formation of x.ai and the creation of Amy + Andrew, artificially intelligent assistants who schedule meetings. He speaks frequently to anyone who'll listen, from the crowds of Web Summit to his building's doorman, about an optimistic future for AI, productivity, and the future of work. Dennis was also an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia and the author of Data Driven Insights, on collecting and analyzing digital data. Originally from Denmark (and keeping his accent), Dennis is now a New Yorker for life."

Jul 8, 2021 • 18min
Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?
Entrepreneur delivering success to B2B tech buyers and vendors via G2.com marketplace...and supporting ThreeKit in building the world's most amazing 3D visual selling platform. Previously built cloud CPQ software pioneers BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and SteelBrick (acquired by Salesforce). Following the conscious path to reach the PEAK in my work, personal, and family life.

Jul 7, 2021 • 21min
Shiphero Raised $50m last week, inside their metrics
Founder and CEO of ShipHero. Previously founder and CEO of an online retailer of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu apparel that I founded in 1999 at age 19 and ran until I started ShipHero.


