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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Ep 2223Estated Grows 100%, Breaks $1.7m ARR for Property Data Platform

Property intelligence

Aug 31, 202121 min

Ep 2222CPG User Research SaaS Suzy Hits $40m ARR, Flirts with $500m Valuation, IPO Next?

Enterprise market research software

Aug 30, 202119 min

Ep 2221Webboss Raised $500k on $1m Vlauation in 2015. Where are they now?

The only alternative to WordPress

Aug 29, 202116 min

Ep 2220HR SaaS Hits $500k ARR Helping Teams Give Rewards to Employees

Cloud-based employee recognition platform

Aug 28, 202117 min

Ep 2219Former Top Sales Rep Will Help You Hire First SDR at Your SaaS Company for $2,500/mo

Build Sales Development Teams

Aug 27, 202121 min

Ep 2218Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

Simple knowledge commerce platform

Aug 26, 202116 min

Ep 2217Team Collaboration Tool Hits 3 Pilots, $15k Each, Real MRR Growth next?

Workforce collaboration & insights

Aug 25, 202114 min

Ep 2216400 Firms pay $1k/mo For This Investor Database, Growing 100% YoY Bootstrapped

Raise Money for investment firms

Aug 24, 202120 min

Ep 2215New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

Sales Enablement

Aug 23, 202116 min

Ep 2214Gusto Killed Their $3m Business, Pivoted to $7.8m ATS Business in HR Tech Space

HR Software and Services

Aug 22, 202118 min

Ep 2213No Code Agency Moves to SaaS, 1200 Customers, $2m+ ARR

Low-Code Development Platform

Aug 21, 202115 min

Ep 2212Oil and Gas ESG SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR in 12 Months, $5m Raise Next?

ESG compliance-as-a-service

Aug 20, 202120 min

Ep 2211Retail SaaS Taking Off Post Pandemic, $1m+ ARR, Raising $8m Series A Now

Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FindMine, an award-winning content engine that uses machine learning to scale content curation for the world's top retailers. As a product and strategy expert, Michelle is experienced in growing companies by launching software, apps and websites to millions of people, putting together joint ventures, and conceiving of new products. She has an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!), where she wrote her honors thesis on managing innovation in multinational organizations. Previously, Michelle served as Director, Program Management - Univision.com and Entertainment with Univision Communications, Inc. where she was responsible for creating the digital roadmap for Univision's cross-platform digital properties (including TV shows, tentpole events, Univision.com, and the Univision App), ensuring KPIs, user experience, and alignment with business strategy are upheld. She also executed roadmaps using Agile & Scrum methodologies: including writing user stories and acceptance criteria, groom the product backlog, manage overarching priorities and balance workload between 6 different sprint teams to deliver on product vision. She managed delivery of Univision's first digital property built on a responsive framework, which drove triple digit growth in engagement over the previous year's site for the same tentpole event as well as sourced, negotiated, and executed large-scale integrations with vendors. Michelle also served with Univision as Associate in the Office of the CEO. In this role, she worked directly with C-suite leadership to evaluate, plan and execute CEO and Board-level strategic initiatives spanning Univision's assets in Broadcast, Cable, Local TV, Radio, and Online/Mobile, including an overhaul of Univision's digital content and product strategy, structuring and valuation of a joint venture with El Rey, Robert Rodriguez's new cable network, and formulation of Univision's long-range, cross-platform English language strategy. Michelle has also helped venture-backed startups, agencies, and fortune 1000 businesses with their digital strategy and consumer experience: She founded and led the customer innovation team at BigTent, Inc. (acquired by Care.com) and quantified the value of a Facebook "like" for a billion dollar apparel brand while at ReadySet Rocket. She also has raised over $150,000 for her alma mater, U.C. Berkeley and led a team of cold-callers to a record breaking $3M fundraising year for the Cal Calling Center.

Aug 19, 202118 min

Ep 2210Can This Data Company Win? $9k to $40k MRR in 6 Months Bootstrapped

Like you, I am passionate about technology, making the world better and having fun doing it.

Aug 18, 202113 min

Ep 2209He's Beating Cancer While Building Fintech Health Tool, $1.6m ARR Bootstrapped

Founder and CEO of CoverMe, healthtech SaaS company using AI to help people find paying sources for healthcare bills in a real time marketplace. Bootstrapped and profitable, CoverMe's team has doubled along with revenue in each of the last four years.

Aug 17, 202118 min

Ep 2208Reviews.io Breaks $10m ARR Bootstrapped, Growing 150% YoY

An immense passion for technology, company culture and customer experience with business experience spanning 20+ years launching his first business at 19 years old. In May 2018, Tom joined REVIEWS.io as Chief Operating Officer (COO) with the sole purpose of growing the business globally. REVIEWS.io is a digital feedback solution that enables online businesses to build brand trust, and is internationally renowned for its innovation.

Aug 16, 202117 min

Ep 2207New NFT Tool Helps Artists Sell Work for $20/mo

I use my background in TV, news, branding and technology to help creators earn without ads on the world's first NFT social network where we make everyone an influencer natural. Plus, we enable digital content creators to build communities and monetize their content using blockchain enabled technology.

Aug 15, 202113 min

Ep 220620 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

I'm a 20 year old degree apprentice, meaning I work full time as a software engineer and part-time completing university that is paid for. In my spare time I'm working on Ecom Pilot, a SaaS product research tool for dropshippers. We are currently pre-launch, and have been lucky enough to find some partners who are working on a complementary tool now raising a series A. I'm also working on Afiliatree, which is more of a bootstrapped effort at a social enterprise looking to do some good.

Aug 14, 202117 min

Ep 2205Brazilian Quote to Cash SaaS Hits $10k in MRR up from $2k, $250k raised at $2.5m Valuation

Passionate computer scientist in the fintech space. Past HSBC, EBANX (soon to be listed), cofounder at PLIPAG.

Aug 13, 202121 min

Ep 22040 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

I'm the CEO of Sales for Life (a LaaS company), the pioneering Social Selling training program for mid-market and enterprise companies. Sales for Life has trained over 250,000 sales and marketing professionals, in dozens of industries. We recently founded PipelineSignals (a BPaaS company) that mines Signal Intelligence from LinkedIn, for any accounts in our customers TAM, for sales opportunities vs. risks.

Aug 12, 202116 min

Ep 2203$15k in MRR From $50k Raised Helping you Turn Blogs into Audio Content

Administration graduate, shines at problem-solving and creativity applied to business and product development. Albert is co-founder and CEO at VOOOZER, Audio Marketing leading solution in Brazil, selected by Google for Startups as one of the most promising startups in 2019. Advocates for harmony between startup life and family life.

Aug 11, 202115 min

Ep 2202How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)

15 year sales veteran that started revgenius at beginning of pandemic bringing it to 15,000 sales, marketing and revops pros in a years time.

Aug 10, 202118 min

Ep 2201BillBee Fastest Growing Bootstrapped Ecomm SaaS, $2m to $4.5m ARR in 7 Months

1st employee of Billbee in 2015, now Chief Revenue Officer and Managing Director / Co-CEO togethet with Founder Jan Krause.

Aug 9, 202113 min

Ep 2200He Plans to Beat Zapier, Has 6 Customers, But Will Stop if Can't Hit $5k MRR By Feb

Born in Minsk, emigrated to Barcelona (Spain) pursuing a carrer in a global multinational. Last 7 years led the innovations unit and built super successful things, got multiple innovation awards and finally left to build own thing. A month before COVID lockdown. A husband, a father. Loves basketball and video games (bf 3). A fan of Steve Blank, Ben Horowitz and Peter Thiel. Would work for Elon Musk just for food and bed.

Aug 8, 202114 min

Ep 2199Egypt Based Seafood Marketplace Launches, Does 70 Orders, Makes 15% Commission

Ahmed Shalaby, founder of Ayooh infotech co. Operates Ayooh seafood ordering app launched January 2021 in Alexandria, Egypt. Mechanical engineering background with passion in tech. Holding MBA from the University of Northampton back in 2018. I plan to expand in the MENA region as the first niche in seafood delivery.

Aug 7, 202115 min

Ep 2198EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets

Jonathan B Fishbeck is the founder and CEO of EstateSpace, LLC, a technology platform that simplifies lifestyle management service and operations to maintain real-property assets to help reduce risk and protect wealth succession. Jonathan was previously the Founder and CEO at a design-build firm whose focus was advising, designing, constructing and operationalizing sizable estate properties for UHNW families and family offices.

Aug 6, 202122 min

Ep 2197Ardius Finds $500m in Tax Credits for Startups, Exits to Gusto

Aug 5, 202122 min

Ep 2196How HyperProspector Got First $4k in MRR

I have launched HyperProspect in August 2020 when covid started and I got a lot of time to work on my things and from there. I went from $0 to $4k MRR bootstrapped no funding. HyperProspect is a team of growth hackers that works with the LinkedIn automation tools that we have in the house and we give ""done for you service"" to clients. The pain point was lots of founders Don't know how to use automation tools and at the same time, they need someone who is an expert in these fields. So here HyperProspect comes in pictures. We have a lot of clients and working with Big Companies having $Billion dollar revenue, I have been working with their founders closely. For me, this was a great journey starting from nothing to $4k MRR. I Got lots of ups down and lots of learning I am 23 right now (solo founder) and still working on lots of projects and still exploring more and more. I would love to share tons of value around LinkedIn and how I go from $0 to $4K? www.hyperprospect.com Https://www.linkedin.com/in/neerajnegi

Aug 4, 202112 min

Ep 2195$500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund

Kunal Lunawat is a co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures. Previously, he was an investor at Blackstone Real Estate and has advised several real estate technology startups. Kunal is an alum of Yale College and Harvard Business School.

Aug 3, 202118 min

Ep 2194vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

Younas is the Founder and CEO of vFairs - the leading Virtual and Events Hybrid Platform in the world. Younas led the growth of the company from 2 people back in 2016 to 250+ team members now in 2021 with over $40MM in revenue.

Aug 2, 202118 min

Ep 2193Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

Aurelian Amacker is a French marketer whose success first started in 2010 after he started his own blog. He later wrote a book about his journey ""I Earn my Living with a blog"", which was a number one bestseller on Amazon. He then began teaching digital marketing to his French audience and generated $500,000 with his very first launch. He still actively teaches his audience about digital marketing today. He is also the founder and CEO of systeme.io, an all-in-one marketing platform that has garnered over 8,000 customers since its launch in 2018.

Aug 1, 202119 min

Ep 2192Groupfio Using Resellers to Break $1.3m Bootstrapped

Jul 31, 202113 min

Ep 2191Legal Tech Merger Drives $1m in ARR, $5m+ Investment

Bill Bice is the CEO at nQ Zebraworks, which is tackling the challenges created by Work From Anywhere in legal organizations. Bill started his first software company at age 18, and has since been on the founding team or a seed investor in 27 startups.

Jul 30, 202121 min

Ep 2191Course Creation Tool Doubles in 6 months to $7m ARR

As CEO of Easygenerator Kasper is both the initiator and driver behind the Employee-generated learning trend. He has made an impact on the field of learning as a blogger (kasperspiro.com), author (trainingindustry.com, Learning Solutions magazine, CLO magazine, and others), and as a speaker at various e-learning conferences around the world.

Jul 29, 202118 min

Ep 2190Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

Jul 28, 202117 min

Ep 2189How they built 300 person waitlist for new co-browsing SaaS tool

👋 I'm a product designer/manager hybrid who works with companies to take their digital products from good to great. 🔥 I'm on a mission to find ways to make customer service amazing for companies. 🚀 I wanna help companies 10x their customer support. All-round innovation seeker ⚡ Optimist 🥬 I speak 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇸

Jul 27, 202117 min

Ep 2188ZenOutreach lands first 2 customers, $2k in MRR, How she did it

Previously co-founded a tech-based real estate service and led sales at an Amazon seller management company. I founded ZenOutreach in February 2021. ZenOutreach is a lead generation company. We offer different packages from list building, email outreach and custom plan. We do 100% of the work for our clients, optimize their campaigns and convert leads into sales opportunities.

Jul 26, 202110 min

Ep 2187How LearnWorlds Broke 4,500 Customers, $6m ARR Helping Course Creators Launch

Panos Siozos is the co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds – a Cyprus-based e-learning company that is transforming self-paced learning through hassle-free textual and video-based learning. Panos co-founded the company in 2014, during a period in which the economies of both Greece and Cyprus were not conducive to new ventures. LearnWorld is now a multi-million-dollar SaaS company based in over 70 countries, with a team of over 30 employees!

Jul 25, 202123 min

Ep 2186QuickOrder Hits $6m Helping Restaurants Drive Loyalty. Next? Raising $20m on $100m Valuation.

Mads Wedderkopp is a young but experienced founder, he took Quickorder from 0 to 40 people, raised multiple funding rounds, and completed two acquisitions as Founding CEO. He has since grown the company to 60+ people and an ARR of 6M+ USD as Group COO. Beside Quickorder Mads is also chairman of Dreaminfluencers a rapid growing martech company that has more than 10x'ed the first 6 month of 2021.

Jul 24, 202117 min

Ep 2185How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months

Gil Feig is the co-founder of Merge. Previously the Head of Engineering at Canvas, he's led projects at Wealthfront and LinkedIn. A graduate of the Columbia University, Gil lives and works in San Francisco.

Jul 19, 202120 min

Ep 2184He'd Sell Keyword Research SaaS $750k ARR For $1.5m, $250k in Profits

Petersen was #13 at a staffing industry startup that grew from $7M to $65M during his tenure and went public in 1996. The business is still operating today in 26 countries and has a $4B market cap. Petersen then spent 20 years consulting before launching Growth Stack Inc, a Saas portfolio on a path to IPO in the next 30 months.

Jul 18, 202121 min

Ep 2183They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

Justin Fischer is CEO and Co-Founder of RiskScout, a leading company helping financial institutions bank higher risk businesses such as Hemp, CBD, Cannabis, MSB, Private ATMs, Crypto, and many more. Small to medium-sized businesses in higher-risk and specialty markets are not able to access financial services because many providers lack the resources, expertise, or infrastructure to expand their business portfolio into higher-risk markets. This compliance barrier leaves many hard-working entrepreneurs and community businesses without the financial services they need to grow. By helping financial institutions solve complex compliance with technology solutions, RiskScout helps local businesses in higher-risk markets find a community partner that they can trust.

Jul 17, 202117 min

Ep 2182He 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 16, 202114 min

Ep 2181CPG 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 15, 202116 min

Ep 2180Will 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 14, 202123 min

Ep 2179PE 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 13, 202117 min

Ep 2178My 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 12, 202116 min

Ep 2177Why 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 11, 202118 min

Ep 2176ScholarshipOwl 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 10, 202116 min

Ep 2175Did 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 9, 202135 min