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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Mar 29, 2021 • 27min

Manufacturing Plant Software Breaks $100m Revenue, Just $38m Raised

Norman Crowley is a serial entrepreneur, who founded and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before the age of forty. He is currently the founder of energy efficiency SaaS company Crowley Carbon and electric car company Electrifi.
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Mar 28, 2021 • 17min

He Quit His Fulltime Gig for $5k/mo Side Project, What He's Doing Now

Have always been fascinated with technology and interpersonal communications. Have been a multiple-time early-stage sales leader and now co-founded Ringpin with my good friend and business partner Brian Levine to help companies reach customers in more meaningful ways from more places. Live in sunny San Diego with wife and two young kids.
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Mar 27, 2021 • 19min

Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?

Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert. As co­founder and chief executive officer, Yampolsky has led the company since its beginnings in 2013 to become one of the world’s most trusted cybersecurity brands. His vision is to create a new language for cybersecurity by enabling people to work collaboratively across the enterprise and with external parties to build a more secure ecosystem. Prior to founding the company, Yampolskiy was a hands­on CTO at Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio, the largest online talk radio and podcast hosting platform. Prior to that, he led security and compliance at Gilt Groupe, where he managed all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. Yampolskiy has a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from New York University and a Ph.D. in Cryptography from Yale University.
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Mar 26, 2021 • 23min

Looking Back: Listen to Founder 3 Years Before Exiting for $450 Million

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Mar 25, 2021 • 18min

Physna Raises $7m More for Geometric Deep Learning in 3d

Forbes 30 Under 30 winner. Successful serial entrepreneur in B2B technology development and SaaS companies. Law degree from University of Heidelberg in Germany. Member of National Small Business Association's Leadership Council
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Mar 24, 2021 • 14min

Will He Go Public To Buy Up His Affiliates?

Serial entrepreneur who previously was a founder and CEO of two software companies Momentum Systems and Applied Development Corp who were in the fintech/internet communications and application development tool sectors. Subsequently CEO of one of Canada's largest Accelerators and CEO of Canada's largest funder of start-up companies and with a focus on those commercializing academic IP.
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Mar 23, 2021 • 16min

The Capital Efficient Founder: $2m in, $12m dividends out, Just Exited

Serial entrepreneur who has successfully bought, built and sold several companies with extreme capital efficiency. Most recently grew ATI revenue 400% (organically and through acquisition) with 37% EBITDA margins, with investors making 9x ROI. Previously built Silversky from startup to $60mm in revenue with $10mm in EBITDA. After recap with Goldman Sachs at $150mm, Silversky was later sold to BAE for $250mm.
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Mar 22, 2021 • 20min

Rokt Breaks $90m Gross Profit Coming out of Pandemic, 3 Revenue LInes, $500m+ Valuation?

Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt. Founded in 2012, Rokt makes e-commerce smarter, faster and better. Rokt uses real time data and decisioning to deliver the next best action for each person in each Transaction Moment™. Rokt’s e-commerce partners experience up to 2x profitability while building customer loyalty and engagement. Prior to Rokt, Bruce was Group CEO of low fares airline Jetstar where he put together the original business case and then spent 10 years building what became the most successful low fares airline in Asia Pacific - growing the team to 7000+ and revenue to more than $3B. The seed idea for Rokt grew from Bruce’s time at Jetstar. He identified that taking a customer on a purchase journey with a personally relevant checkout experience presented a significant opportunity being underserved by the technology community, and so he set about building the solution. Bruce is currently busy expanding and enhancing the Rokt offering, growing the business to similar levels of success as Jetstar. Bruce lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children and their rescue pup, Izzy.
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Mar 21, 2021 • 17min

He Sold 0.7% For $50k With $100k ARR ($7m Valuation). Mistake?

🙏 - God First 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦- Husband and Father of twin boys 📈- Entrepreneurial business owner for 23 years 🤝 - 21 years of business networking 👨‍💻 - Franchise Social Media Specialist 💫 - Motivation, Education, Inspiration! Assisting people to make the most of their talents will benefit not only them, but your business too. There are no limits with the right motivation. https://ese.md/exihf
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Mar 20, 2021 • 15min

He Did $170k Last Year, Shared Profits with 6 person Team Using This Algorithm

Made in Italy but living in The Netherlands, I am founder of WP-OK.it - where we help small biz with their WordPress sites.

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