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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Ep 2174Today 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 8, 202118 min

Ep 2173Shiphero 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.

Jul 7, 202120 min

Ep 2172ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

Jul 6, 20211h 3m

Ep 2171Will Gong Break $10b Valuation by October?

Amit Bendov is the CEO and founder of Gong.io. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in hyper-growth enterprise software startups. Before co-founding and leading the team at Gong.io, Amit was CEO of SiSense, and also held the role of CMO for Panaya.

Jul 5, 202124 min

Ep 2170How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation

Patrick Walker is the co-founder of Uptime, an app that presents expertly curated five-minute Knowledge Hacks of the world's best books, courses and documentaries.

Jul 4, 202120 min

Ep 2169BetterAgency CRM for Insurance Hits $1m ARR, Raises $2m on $15m Valuation

I am the Co-Founder of Better Agency, the first Sales-Driven AMS and the industry's top CRM for Independent Insurance Agencies. We are on a mission to help agents issue $1Billion in new business premium by 2024. I am an Ex-Professional Athlete, and my ""playing field"" is now the Tech & software Space.

Jul 3, 202119 min

Ep 2168Indie Riches: He Makes More Now Than The $100k Job That Laid Him Off in 2019

Cam Sloan is a Canadian entrepreneur who worked as a full-stack developer until he was laid off in 2019. Instead of finding a new job, he started freelancing with the goal of eventually starting a product business. Today he juggles both as he works towards building a profitable software business.

Jul 1, 202116 min

Ep 2167Brazil Customer Success SaaS hits $25k MRR, $3m Valuation

Leonardo is an expert in customer relationship management who worked in small and large companies through his career. In 2017, decided to change the side and invite some friends to build CustomerX, a SMB Brazilian Customer Success Management Platform.

Jun 30, 202114 min

Ep 2166What Happened: Only $7k in Bank, Now $4.5m ARR, 100% YoY Growth

Jun 29, 202126 min

Ep 2165Husband Wife Team Goes From Almost Dead to 100 Customers

12 years into my programming career, I finally landed my dream tech job. Great team, great salary, great projects. But after 3 months, I started feeling bored. I realized that not even the perfect job could fulfill me, as I craved a bigger challenge. I had no other choice than to start my own company.

Jun 28, 202119 min

Ep 2164ProjectCor Hits $1m ARR, Raises at $40m Valuation for Profit Tracking Tool for Agency's

Santiago Bibiloni (born in Buenos Aires., October 20, 1989) is a Silicon Valley based technology entrepreneur and co-founder & CEO at COR, the next-generation solution for creative and professional teams that intelligently suggests how to manage your projects, teams and finances. Prior to COR he founded Balloon Group, one of Argentina's fastest growing digital agencies, among other businesses. Today he continues to grow COR and is also a Sales and Fundraising mentor at 500 Startups as well as speaker and jury in big technology, advertising and entrepreneurial events.

Jun 27, 202122 min

Ep 2163HockeyStack Hits First $800 in MRR in 2 Months

I'm an 18-year-old, who is passionate about making things people need and use. I have tried a lot of things varying from personalized book boxes to a social media app to solve different problems with my friends and now growing my first SaaS, HockeyStack.

Jun 26, 202113 min

Ep 2162Freightos Grows GMV 800%, Exits COVID Stronger Than Ever

Jun 25, 202121 min

Ep 2161Why RambleChat Sold to Terminus Last Year at 10x Valuation Multiple

Jun 24, 202117 min

Ep 2160Windsor Breaks $55k MRR, Turns Down VC, Loves Bootstrapped

Jun 23, 202112 min

Ep 2159Slintel Breaks $6m ARR, $20m Raise on $100m Valuation Ready to Take on B2B Intelligence Space

Founder and CEO of Slintel. Hired Anupreet Singh Lamba early on who is currently leading Sales at Slintel, a SaaS Sales Intelligence platform. He has set up sales teams and functions from scratch for various companies and firmly believes that the initial revenue target is achieved only when the entire organization works with the grit to support them.

Jun 22, 202126 min

Ep 2158This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

Founder Dux-Soup

Jun 21, 202119 min

Ep 2157They Raised $300k on $1m after B2B SaaS Pivot for Job Applicants to Record Videos Easier

Mike Beck has a background in financial trading and selling complex software before setting up Reliving, a B2C software company focused on helping people preserve their loved one's life stories. The pandemic forced a pivot to what is now Reworking a B2B one-way video interview platform for employers.

Jun 20, 202112 min

Ep 2156$3m in Revenue and $227m Market Cap? How is Resonant thinking about Software?

Mr. Holmes joined Resonant in 2016 as CEO. Prior to joining Resonant, Mr. Holmes served as Chief Commercial Officer for Tigo Energy, where he was responsible for expanding the company's demand creation activities.

Jun 19, 202122 min

Ep 2155DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

Madhan drives CodeLathe's overall strategy and execution. Over the last 15 years, prior to founding CodeLathe, Madhan has worked on diverse systems and technology, including building highly scalable MMORPG game server technology, high speed real-time video acquisition systems, digital video engagement solutions, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). He has authored the 'Getting Remote Work Done' book and is also the original contributor of Money Manager Ex open source personal finance software. Madhan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boston University.

Jun 18, 202119 min

Ep 2154How He Hit $10k With Side Project

Software engineer, indie hacker, and former college soccer player living in Chicago.

Jun 17, 202111 min

Ep 2153Ingo Breaks $100k/mo Helping Major Media Brands Get More Conference Attendees

Michael Barnett's extensive experience in community growth led him to found InGo which empowers communities to grow by connecting current and potential members. The power of these communities to shape decisions is massive. One report shows that 92% of consumers trust a suggestion from a family member or friend over any other form of communication.

Jun 16, 202116 min

Ep 2152Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

Designer since 1998, university lecturer and author.

Jun 15, 202118 min

Ep 2151Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

Sindre Haaland was born and raised in Norway but lives with his beautiful wife, son, daughter, and Maltipoo-dog in Brooklyn, New York. Founder & CEO of SalesScreen, the world's most comprehensive gamification platform that creates a fun, motivating, and competitive atmosphere for revenue teams.

Jun 14, 202122 min

Ep 2150Can Law Pockets Help Solve Racial Injustice By Empowering Atlanta Residents?

We make the law easier not harder.

Jun 13, 202117 min

Ep 2149DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster

ex-McKinsey who turned into a serial entrepreneur

Jun 12, 202117 min

Ep 2148How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

I am Dominik and recently founded a company together with my friend Anki where we're working on our own products and help other companies with our profound web development experience.

Jun 11, 202115 min

Ep 2147Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

A software engineer turns to be a bootstrapper, from building side hustles, to quitting my full-time job, to making Testimonial full-time.

Jun 10, 202120 min

Ep 2146Prediction: Freshbworks IPO Coming Next Month? Founders Thinking in 2018

My name is Girish Mathrubootham and I am the Founder and CEO of Freshworks (previously known as Freshdesk). I am 36 years old, married and live with my wife and two boys in Chennai, India. This is the story of how I quit my comfortable job and launched my own startup. Hope you like it.

Jun 9, 202123 min

Ep 2145Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

Shahed Khan is the Founder of Loom. He previously worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at NFX, a venture capital firm focused on investing in networks and marketplaces. Prior to NFX, Shahed was an Analyst at Los Angeles based venture capital firm, Upfront Ventures.

Jun 8, 202125 min

Ep 2144He Spent $300k Buying SaaS Companies, Sold them For $2m

Former Fortune 500 growth consultant turned digital entrepreneur. Currently runs a product studio that builds, grows and sells profitable internet companies and teaches online entrepreneurs how to grow their businesses faster.

Jun 7, 202118 min

Ep 2143Build a Website On Notion? Founder Gets first 70 Customers at $10/mo!

Noah started is entrepreneur journey creating multiple projects in college. After college He started his first real startup CoffeePass with his roommate. CoffeePass was an app like the Starbucks app but for local coffee shops. After working on the startup for two years it was acquired. Now Noah is indie hacking building businesses at a smaller scale that can at least work for him and his family. Potion.so is his current focus. Its a website builder built on top of Notion. Create custom styled websites on top of your Notion content.

Jun 6, 202115 min

Ep 2142Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?

Built an Instagram agency by sending cold emails, transitioned into an agency that sends cold emails for other people, made a cold email course, then made software apps for those who bought the course and other cold emailers

Jun 5, 202120 min

Ep 2141HRForecast Bootstrapped to $3m, Signed $300k Deal, How They Handle Profits

2014 I founded HRForecast (peopleForecast GmbH) together with Florian Fleischmann. Prior to joining HRForecast, I gained interdisciplinary industry experience in various finance and planning roles. I bring with me comprehensive, cross-industry expertise in solving strategic problems in complex, fast-moving environments. I studied business administration at the Technical University of Ingolstadt.

Jun 4, 202118 min

Ep 2140Process Automation SaaS: From $600k Pivot to 300% YoY Growth, How Indico Turned the Corner

Founder and CTO of indico data solutions, an Enterprise AI solution for unstructured content with an emphasis on text and NLP. He has been building machine learning solutions for startups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past 5 years and is a frequent speaker at AI conferences.

Jun 3, 202123 min

Ep 2139He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?

Started being an entrepreneur at 40 Co-founded Qualifio and a few other companies, including 87seconds (Europe's leading video content agency, sold in 2018 to Datawords) Will step down as Qualifio's CEO in July (and stay Active chairman) Based in Belgium but started my professional career at PwC in Washington DC Father of 2 sons

Jun 2, 202122 min

Ep 2138LivingSecurity SaaS Breaks $3m ARR, 150% Retention, New Unify Product To Create More Insights for Security Leaders

As the CEO of Living Security, Ashley has been the driving force behind the company's rapid growth. Since its founding in 2017, Living Security has raised more than $20 million for growth and product development and accelerated revenue growth for three consecutive years. Ashley is also continually working to build a diverse and inclusive organization around the belief that the team should reflect the community at large. An adaptable problem solver, Ashley is thoughtful and transparent in her approach to running the company and working with clients toward a singular goal: reduce risk by making people a security asset instead of a liability.

Jun 1, 202119 min

Ep 2137SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?

Andrea Volpini is the CEO of WordLift, a visionary web entrepreneur, focusing on semantic web, artificial intelligence and SEO. WordLift is a semantic platform for online content developed by working at the intersection between semantic technologies, natural language processing, and search engine optimization. Andrea has 20+ years of world-class experience in online strategies and web publishing.

May 31, 202122 min

Ep 2136Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year

Adam Robinson is a SaaS entrepreneur who lives in Austin, TX. After spending 10 years on Wall Street trading credit default swaps at Lehman Brothers, Adam started his first startup called Robly Email Marketing. Robly was bootstrapped, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction in 2017, the company distributed mid 7-figures and was sold for 8-figures. Adam's current venture, GetEmails, helps its e-commerce and publishing customers identify their anonymous web traffic and retarget them over email. Adam launched GetEmails in November of 2019 and just crossed 4mm ARR with 6 full-time employees.

May 30, 202122 min

Ep 213513 Year Old Building Indie Builder Community, First $8 in Revenue!

Hi! I'm Arav, I'm 13 years old and I'm building Indie Icebreakers,and Indie Rocket. I'm create content, and share Indie stories.

May 29, 202117 min

Ep 2134How to Make Money On Top of Opensource Protocol with Linktree Alternative SingleLink

I'm a 22-year-old, formerly obese college dropout turned founder and triathlete. I've lost over 115lbs and completed races up to the 70.3 mi distance while I'm currently training for Ironman Florida (140.6 miles). Passionate about open-source, startups, and pushing myself to the limits.

May 28, 202117 min

Ep 2133$20k Upwork Side Gig to $200k ARR SaaS Project Editing Real Estate Photos

Filipino by birth, architect by training, salesman by vocation, catholic by faith, family man by commitment, public speaker by demand, and a humanitarian by choice. After 3 heartbreaking business failures in his 20s in the Construction and outsourcing industry. He founded REVAstaff.com in 2018, then everything just fell into place.

May 27, 202117 min

Ep 2132How his side project hit $200k in revenue, new way to A/B test pricing

Ch Daniel (23) created Legit Check By Ch with his brother, David (17) and have gathered 6,000,000 all-time users. Their company helps people authenticate luxury items: clothing, sneakers, bags, watches etc. Currently they're making $200,000/year using the simple ""send order note"" function of an e-commerce system.

May 26, 202115 min

Ep 2131Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround

Mike Adams is the CEO and Co-founder of Grain — a tool that empowers remote teams to record, transcribe, annotate, and share the most important moments from virtual meetings in a highlight reel. He previously co-founded Degreed and MissionU (Acq. by WeWork). Mike believes that recorded conversations and the spoken knowledge they generate fundamentally expand our ability to listen, empathize and connect with each other.

May 25, 202119 min

Ep 21301,000 Companies Pay List Buying Site $150/mo For New Leads, $1.8m in Revenue

Jimmy Alamia is a professional digital marketer and "The New Age CMO", located in Essex County, New Jersey. Jimmy has been marketing on the internet since 1999 and has helped hundreds of clients grow their businesses by utilizing his proven marketing methodology. Jimmy Leads focuses on the building blocks of: Creating Goals, Formulating Strategy, Building World Class Assets, Executing Tactics & Media Activation, Aligning Marketing with Sales, and Testing, Measurement & KPI. Jimmy is the creator of MEGALEADS.COM and has worked with SMB and Enterprise companies such as AUTOMATCH, Comodo Cybersecurity, Momentum Solar, Sun Power Solar, NASDAQ, Pershing, Bear Stearns, Citibank, Bank of New York and Kraft General Foods. Jimmy has a B.S. in Mathematics from Pace University in New York City..

May 24, 202116 min

Ep 2129Google Analytics Alternative Adds $23k in MRR in 12 Months, Open sourced!

Co-founder of Plausible Analytics, a simple, open source, lightweight (

May 23, 202118 min

Ep 2128Manage your Twitter from Notion? He's doing it, first 5 customers paying!

Senior Software Engineer, previously a fellow at Entrepreneur First, a global startup incubator, bootstrapping SaaS products for creators/makers in public

May 22, 202111 min

Ep 2127Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets

Kevin Yun is cofounder of GrowSurf, referral software for tech startups. He's sharing their journey to $1MM publicly at https://growsurf.com/open as they bootstrap growth for their B2B SaaS. Previously, Kevin founded a UX/UI design bootcamp that was acquired by WeWork/Flatiron in 2018.

May 21, 202115 min

Ep 2126Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it?

I'm an unstoppable learner; currently learning how to build software businesses. I've built 3 products in the past that made $0 and have all been shut down. Launched Chime Social in January 2021, a Twitter scheduling and analytics tool, and first profitable product.

May 20, 202115 min

Ep 2125Deep Fake Tech Pivoted from $0 Last Year, $24m Raised, CEO teases new round

Gil is CEO & co-founder of D-ID, which he established in 2017 with his friends and fellow co-founders COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta. He has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments. Gil has commanding experience in a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.

May 19, 202120 min