SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Business & Economics Podcasts
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day
5/2/2024
Eugene Levin joined SEMRush at $3m ARR after the founders wouldn't let him invest. As president, he's grown the business to 100,000 paying customers 850k free users, $2,500 ACV and 25% YoY revenue growth. Will they break $350m ARR this year?
Duration:00:25:46
Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably
4/30/2024
Adam Robinson had a 6 person team doing $10m in ARR. Then he went all in on linkedin, pivoted to B2B, and broke $20m in ARR. He did $1,858,399 MRR in Jan 2024 and profited $509,984. Can he break $5m in profits this year?
Duration:00:21:44
How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS
4/25/2024
Duration:00:21:10
We just hit $400m in revenues. Here are 9 org chart, people moves I had to make to scale
4/23/2024
Jason Cohen founded WPEngine in 2010 and broke $20m within 4 years. Today, the company does $400m+ in Revenues. In this podcast Cohen teaches 9 rules he used to change his org chart, optimize roles, and replace himself as CEO as he scaled. Will they break $500m revenue this year?
Duration:00:27:42
27 year old Founder exited for $169m at $50m ARR. How much cash did he take home at exit?
4/18/2024
Ryan Allis launched iContact when he was 18. He made $15m cash when he exited in 2011 for $169m. He shares his negotiation with Salesforce Marc Benioff, how he found 10 profitable acquisition channels, 70,000 customers, and broke $50m in revenues. Will he buy it back for $1 one day?
Duration:00:20:51
This Danish CEO Hit $30m ARR using Unique 14 Hub Model Selling Software for Microsoft Ecosystem
4/16/2024
LMS365 raised $20m in 2023 at a $100m valuation - a 5x multiple on $20m of ARR. As of April 2024, they do $30m in ARR. Their 200 person team is focused on building software for the Microsoft ecosystem. Can they hit $40m ARR this year?
Duration:00:22:25
Genius SaaS Pricing Page Generated $3m in Revenue Last Year
4/4/2024
They hit $3m ARR fast using MTU tiers on their pricing page. Raised $7m in 2023 at a $35m post money valuation and are burning $30k per month today. Focus is profitability before Q2 2025, will they hit it?
Duration:00:16:25
39 Year Old Made $21m Last Year Selling Surprising Software
4/2/2024
Rural mom and pop shops love him. 13,000 have purchased his POS and software system processing over $1.85 billion in GMV in 2023 across 35m transactions. Can he crack $2b GMV in 2024?
Duration:00:31:01
How Bootstrapper Made $6m Last year Using New Self-Funding Method
3/21/2024
Companies like Samsung are sourcing college talent using Scholarship Owl. The firm hit $6m in 2023 revenue, bootstrapped. 150,000 college students join the platform monthly increasing the size and quality of the talent pool the company’s B2B customers can pay to access. Can he hit $10m this year?
Duration:00:22:33
Miami Based Fintech did $70m in 2023 Revenue - What about Gross Margin?
3/19/2024
CEO Alex Shvarts shared a default rate of 15%, charge off rate of 6.8%, along with significant expenses related to acquisition costs, and interest expenses. The firm is targeting $300m in capital deployed in 2024. If it hits its target, does this FinTech SMB factoring company have enough margin to survive long term?
Duration:00:33:23
This Software for Doctors hit $51m revenue last year (100% growth). $5m profit.
3/14/2024
Reveeler grew ARR 100% from $25m to $51m in 2023 and took $5m to the bottom line as profits. What interest rate do they pay Hercules on their new $65m debt facility for acquisitions? How does CEO Jay Ackerman plan to hit $100m in revenue this year (2024)? Who will they acquire next?
Duration:00:28:00
Do these 9 things to ensure your way to $50 Million ARR
3/12/2024
Duration:00:19:39
20 year old wins $3m playing Poker, launches $4m bootstrapped SaaS
3/7/2024
20 year old wins $3m playing poker, launches SaaS. He raised $18.2m. After 7 years and dilution down to under 50% he left to launch his new bootstrapped company. Whippy helps lawyers run their operations and hit $4m ARR this month. Can he hit $10m bootstrapped?
Duration:00:24:04
51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing
3/5/2024
CEO Griff Parry launched m3ter in 2020 after selling his first company Gamesparks to AWS. Today 10-100 customers pay him platform fee's and usage fee's to use his usage based billing API tool. He doesn't code but across his team of 56, more than 25 are engineers. Can they scale into their last round valuation?
Duration:00:26:54
Solo Founder, No Employees, Exits for $1m+ Keeps 100%
2/20/2024
Launched in 2016 selling software to Music Repair Shops, TudoDesk exited for $1m+. This is the low stress, high wealth way to build a software company. TC won't write about you, but it doesn't matter, you'll get wealthy fast!
Duration:00:19:23
This CEO Does $20m/year Selling Software to Chiropractic Offices
2/15/2024
Launched in 2016, CEO Matt Prados got rich off dividends and profits. He's bootstrapped to $20m in revenue with plans to hit $32m in 2024. Can he do it? His outbound call center strategy might get him there.
Duration:00:21:18