SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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.

🚀🏡The entrepreneur who sold his house ☠️Chief Nixer 💻Cyber Security Architect 💛Virtual CISO 🖋️Journalist 💂Speaker 📝Product Manager 🧘🏼‍♂️Yogi ✍️Author 🦋Hustler 🎉Passionpreneur 👨‍👧‍👦Dad 🕸️shanmugavel.com

Founder of @onboardio (onboard.io), a B2B SaaS to streamline onboarding for every customer. prev: founded, built, & sold @Ambassador investor, mentor, advisor and generally a huge fan of tech, sports & business.

Originally I worked in ad agencies, but 4 years ago pivoted to tech, becoming a Product Manager then UX Researcher. On the side I started a popular London Indie Hackers meetup called IndieBeers (now part of Indie London), and from that evolved Weekend Club, the weekend co-working club for bootstrappers ($2,000 MRR).

Former developer and Big 8 Consultant on selecting emerging technologies for use in sales and marketing for companies including McDonald's, Allied Van Lines, United Airlines, General Electric. Led enterprise sales teams at Delrina (WinFax) and Symantec (FormFlow). Now, General Manager of the GoldMine Business Unit of Ivanti, Inc.

I am the founder and chief coder at Coditas. I believe coders are artists whose art is the code they write. I am a computer scientist from IIT Bombay and have been delivering quality software solutions for more than 16 years, but I believe my coding journey has just begun.

Zachary Hedges exhibited a passion and proclivity for marketing from an early age. He started his first marketing communications company at age 16. By the time he was 25, Zach had leveraged his expertise to build a diverse client list that included the likes of The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and Pfizer, to name a few. In 2014, Zach transitioned into the Saas arena and launched MDC DOT, an all-in-one CRM and marketing automation platform; through Zach's innovative work, he received two US patents. This lead Zach in 2018 to develop his most innovative and groundbreaking product to date. PreBuilt Marketing AI, the first-ever Social Media Marketing technology powered by (AI) that writes your content, builds campaigns for you and analyzes the results.

Matt Sweetwood serial entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and a tech start-up founder. He is an internationally known professional speaker, author, coach, and social media influencer. However, his greatest achievement is having raised five successful children to adulthood as a single dad. He is a frequent national TV and publication contributor.

As Chief Customer Officer at Seven Lakes Technologies, Sowmya Murthy leads the go-to-market teams in bringing to market JOYN, a SaaS leader in modernizing oilfields. With a fluency in mission critical systems and galvanizing change-resistant organizations, she has served on CEO's top council for 20+ years.

Alaric Ong has done 5 different businesses before, of which 3 of them were started with zero capital which went on to generate 6 figures within a few short months. One of them went on to generate 7 figures within 16 months. Currently, he is the founder of the largest Facebook Marketing Community in Singapore with over 1400+ paid students. He has also been featured in Fox, MarketWatch and Digital Journal for interviewing 6,7,8 and 9 figure entrepreneurs like Marcos Moura who runs Amada Franchise, a $120 million/year business, Grant Cardone (real estate tycoon), JT Foxx (world's number 1 wealth coach) and George Ross (former right hand man of Donald Trump) Here's a quick background about him: www.AlaricOng.com Hundreds of testimonials: www.AlaricOng.com/p/testimonials.html Interviews: https://www.alaricong.com/p/interviews.html

SaaS Entrepreneur | Forbes Council | Bootstrapped to €5M ARR in just 15 months | Founder of World's safest software for LinkedIn Automation | Expandi.io | Vegan | Father of a 4 year old son Steef | Netherlands 🇱🇺 https://foundershustle.substack.com/p/how-expandi-bootstrapped-to-4m-arr

Andre founded 4 marketing companies in three countries. Hi is born entrepreneur, starting making money at age 7, at 14 he had his three income streams. His desire to help local-small-businesses created one of the world most advanced marketing automation today.

I'm a freelance software developer building profitable tools on the side. In 2020 I bootstrapped and eventually sold a TikTok marketing platform (influencegrid.com). Now working on Data Fetcher (datafetcher.io), a low-code Airtable app that lets you run API requests. Bootstrapped to $10k ARR over the last 4 months.

Laurence is the CEO of Incentify. He is an accomplished high tech CEO with a track record of successfully managing high performing companies and teams. Most recently, Laurence was CEO and Founder of Hopscotch, a SaaS based, venture backed, mobile application development platform company in the sports and entertainment space.

Talpiot program alumni, Asaf continued his IDF service as a commander in the elite 8200 intelligence unit. He previously held positions as R&D Team Leader and Project Manager where he led 30+ researchers, engineers and analysts in large scale projects. Co-founding Granulate, he hopes to democratize performance and build a world without performance loss.

Co-founder and CEO of OSS Ventures, a French start-up specialist for industrial companies. After working as an economist at the OECD and co-founding a start-up in Brazil, he founded OSS Ventures to help manufacturers digitalize their production sites. He published, with Michael Valentin, "OK Google, draw me a unicorn"

I'm the founder of Subclout, a SaaS platform that allows creators to monetize their premium content through BitClout. I work full time as a strategy consultant and was previously a software engineer for a health tech company. I love building products and talking business.

Len Reo is founder of Attivo Group, a team of people passionate about efficient business processes and the information systems and automation that support them. Experts in ERP such as SAP Business One and cloud hosting, Attivo Group is a national operation that is focused on manufacturing and distribution companies.

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.

Founder & CEO at Adapty 500 Startups alumnus

Satya Prabhakar is an Indian/American entrepreneur, engineer, writer and the Founder & CEO of Sulekha, India’s leading tech-AI platform for expert services offering SME Service Providers (SPs) the best mobile-SaaS medium to grow their business through matched prospects and market intelligence. He grew Sulekha from 2 employees to over 1300 employees in 17 offices across India and in US. Originally from Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, Prabhakar earned his Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communications from National institute of Technology (NIT REC), Trichy, India; Masters in Computer Science and an MBA in International Finance from University of Florida. He has nearly 20 years of professional experience in various technical, business development, strategy and general management roles at TCS India, Philips N.V., Honeywell and AT&T in the areas of databases, real-time operating systems, Interactive TV, Internet access, hosting and interactive services. He has written over 25 technical papers and articles in the areas of artificial intelligence, database design, optimization and integration. He won prestigious awards tor technical business leadership both at 880 and Honeywell.

I've spent the last 17 years working on digital assets with a distributed team of top-tier software architects, engineers and marketing specialists built from scratch. Projects have ranged from SaaS to the development of peer-to-peer platforms. I’ve done what feels like everything in that space - create, buy, develop, sell, consult, and operate.

Co-founder of BatchProducts - 5 SAAS platforms that provide data and lead generation tools for users in various industries.