

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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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.

Mar 26, 2021 • 23min
Looking Back: Listen to Founder 3 Years Before Exiting for $450 Million

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mar 19, 2021 • 20min
What a 440 Person Amazon Community Looks Like (and its $1m+ in Revenue)
Eugene Khayman founded his first brand, Eparé, in 2012 to share his joy of cooking & entertaining. As Eparé grew, Eugene became involved with an organization called Million Dollar Sellers (MDS), an elite community of over 400 entrepreneurs who, collectively, generate more than 4 Billion dollars annually on the Amazon platform. From being a founding member to pioneering MDS conferences, Eugene is now the organization's COO evangelizing successful MDS businesses while still growing Eparé & other e-commerce brands as a limited partner.

Mar 18, 2021 • 16min
Marketing Personalization Tool Gets First 8 Customers, $1m ARR Shortly
Two-time founder. First exited in 2018. Dedicated to product-led growth and in love with the transition of B2B marketing to B2C experiences. Bostonian by way of GA, KY, AZ, SUI, CA, DC, Chicago.


