SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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.

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

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.

Designer since 1998, university lecturer and author.

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.

We make the law easier not harder.

ex-McKinsey who turned into a serial entrepreneur

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Vik Singh is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of a new enterprise AI startup. Vik was the CEO and Co-Founder of Infer, a company that provides a predictive platform for helping businesses win more customers. Infer was acquired by Ignite. Previously, Vik was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures (SHV). Before SHV, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! BOSS, an open search platform that runs over 1 billion queries a month. He also worked at Google and Microsoft, helping ship Google Custom Search and Windows XP SP2 Wireless. At Microsoft Research, he worked under Turing Award winner Dr. Jim Gray. MIT's Technology Review listed him as one of the Top 35 under 35 Innovators. Vik has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Wired, Technology Review, Business Insider and CRM Magazine. He also occasionally writes for TechCrunch and VentureBeat. He's been a guest speaker at Stanford and Berkeley - as well as designs and teaches computer science and entrepreneurship classes at UC Berkeley. Vik has filed 13 patents in the areas of search, social networking, systems infrastructure and data modeling. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Alex is co-founder of DIvvy. He enjoys into Sports, Seattle, Salt Lake, Skiing, and Start-ups. He also enjoys building cutting edge fin-tech platform that will literally change the way businesses spend their money.

I'm an engineer turned into entrepreneur, a mother of two, love all things technology and products, obsessed about design and UX. Started my engineering career in my early-20s, was leading product & engineering teams in my late-20s, and now building Softr.io - the easiest no-code platform for building powerful web-apps and portals from Airtable, in 10 minutes. Softr's mission is to make software building accessible to everyone! Currently, customers build online communities, marketplaces, paid online courses, resources directories, client & employee portals and more.

I've been a product designer for the past 14 years, working as a consultant with startups and enterprise companies such as Uber to help them deliver amazing products.

⚡️I help solo founders and teams grow their product by coming closer to their users, through UX playbooks, tutorials and 1-1 coaching. In the meantime, I am also building my own SaaS product to democratize user testing.

After careers in financial markets (Standard Chartered Bank) and academia (Professor of International Relations), Simon started to buy and build businesses and to date has an IRR of 27%. He built sustainable incomes in 8 countries and is now living in Virginia, USA, with his wife and daughter. Simon is English with dual US and British citizenships (ask him why one isn't enough). He is an alumni of University College London (BA (Hons), MA), the University of Edinburgh (PGDip by Research), the University of Exeter (M.Ed) and the University of Cambridge and is a past recipient of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's scholarship for Artificial Intelligence.

Matt Weirich is the Co-founder and CEO of Realync. Having founded Realync over 9 years ago, Matt is on a mission to make multifamily touring, leasing, and communication, real and transparent. With their video leasing solution, Realync has helped teams all across the United States increase their lead-to-lease conversion rates and decrease sales cycles. Realync is partnered with many of the nation's largest property owners and managers and is actively being used in over 220K units today. Realync is multifamily's leading virtual leasing and resident engagement platform enabling live video tours, live virtual open houses and DIY pre-recorded videos of properties.

Sven is bootstrapping airgpu, a service to play the latest games on your laptop next to his day job as a software engineer. After working on multiple side projects over several years that either weren't released or generated zero revenue, he recently onboarded his first paying customer with airgpu.

Ted Elliott is a serial entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of Copado and serves on the company's Board of Directors. ... Ted sold Jobscience to Bullhorn, Inc in March 2018. Elliott has built sales, consulting, and engineering teams in cloud SAAS since 2007, with a focus on leveraging the Salesforce platform.

My formal education is in rabbinic studies. 4 years ago I decided to dive into the tech industry. I went to a boot camp, got a job and am now a Tech Lead at a company in Los Angeles (consumer rewards platform Prodege). I recently acquired a small Shopify app (via MicroAcquire) with the goal of growing it into a full reporting and notifications suite. I am treating the acquisition as my low cost MBA :)

Teaching reps how to earn the right to ask questions, which questions to ask, and when to do it is the primary driver behind Richard's N.E.A.T. Selling methodology. 20+ years experience. Clients include Gainsight, Google Cloud, Salesloft, Mattillion, and more. He brings a "liberal arts" degree in the school of life to sales. He's been Full Cycle AE, SDR, Sales Manager, Director of Sales, Director of Sales Operations, and VP of Sales.

Founder, CEO and Brand Strategist of creative and digital agency One Shoe. Over 20 years comprehensive leadership and consultancy experience with multi-site multi-cultural global organizations including Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Healthcare, FMCG.

Steve Pockross brings more than 25 years of startup, Fortune 500, and nonprofit experience to his role at Verblio. Steve previously served as VP of Business Development and Strategy for Marketplace + SaaS pioneer LiveOps, as well as leadership roles at Tendril, Western Union, and HSBC. Steve received his MBA from Kellogg and his MA from Wesleyan University.

Moe started his first landscaping business when he was 18. He sold that and started a residential design and build company that he grew to one of the largest in North America. After reaching the top of his industry he wanted a new challenge where his work could have a positive impact on the world. Moe then founded Acadium as a way to enable economic mobility to anyone with an internet connection.

Philippe is an autodidact coder. He always had the firm belief he needed only time and consistency before success hit, he slowly built his life around his capacity to sustain himself for as long as possible on a low budget. Fast forward to today, he runs two successful online businesses each reaching $1M/year.

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of UserZoom, the Experience Insights Management company that helps businesses design, measure and deliver the best digital experiences. F500 brands like Google, Amazon, AT&T, Walmart, or Intel power and automate the UX and CX research of their digital properties through UserZoom's agile and scalable platform. I have 20-yrs experience in the fields of Marketing, Web Design and User Research.

Corina Ludwig is an accomplished Senior Executive, Advisor, and Board Member with more than 30 years of success in Business Tech and advertising. For the past 21 years she's lead FunctionFox –a global leader in time-tracking and project management. She also sits on the board for Women in Science and Tech and the Innovation, and the Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council.

Serial founder, sold my first small SaaS last year, started Jolt as a side hustle, and joined CopyAI as a full-time software engineer.

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