
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
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Ep 2005FullFunnel.io Using 4k FB Community, Book to Grow B2B SaaS Business
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.
Ep 2005SalesImpact Hits $1.5m ARR Training SaaS Sales Leaders
Paul is an entrepreneur with 18 years' experience in founding and scaling global companies. Over the last 7 years, he has grown two international technology businesses from zero to $70M in combined sales as CRO and $500M + in value. Paul has also raised over $100M of investment across all stages.
Ep 2003x0pa Breaks $3m Revenue, Grows 6x selling B2B Hiring tool
Founder and CEO. Third venture, entrepreneur since 1997. Started first company with an investment of $1000 to make it a multi million dollar company across 5 continents. Pivoted to digital platform in 2017. Recipient of over 23 awards including Female Business Personality of the Year , entrepreneur of the year Asia
Ep 2002LennysNewsletter On Building 45k List, 2.5k Slack Group, Monetization Strategies and Substack Future
Ep 2001Lemon.io Did $2.73m Connecting Developers with Jobs, Keeps 25%
I founded Lemon.io (previous name Coding Ninjas) in 2015 with an idea to build an Uber for web development. You post a project, and the next available (pre-vetted) developer picks it up. Previously I had 2 failed attempts to build businesses: AdSense for images and local classified in Ukraine. Before that, I was the head of sales in a 100-person SEM agency.
Ep 2000FiveRings Is Outsourced SDR for SaaS, $360k in ARR
Starting my first venture at the age of 20 showed me incredible highs and crushing lows (eating PB&J for every meal). Gained a ton of skills doing door to door, cold calling, and managing a team of 30 commission only sales reps. After pursuing a few other ventures in this realm, I gained a lot of knowledge about growing sales, building teams and measuring success. Taking this knowledge, I co-founded FiveRings Marketing where we help SaaS companies grow their revenue by booking meetings with decision makers in their industry.
Ep 1999ConnectBooks Helps FBA Sellers with Quickbooks, $60k MRR
I started off as a car service driver and worked my way through school and started a SaaS company
Ep 1998GlobeChain Lists Waste Products, Does $1.6m in ARR in SaaS Enabled Marketplace Model
May is the founder of Globechain,a reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and smes to redistribute unneeded items, generating ESG data.Working in investment banking, May saw a need to digitise waste.Globechain has 10,000 members, operates in UK,Spain,NYC&UAE.Recognised as one of Forbes 100 top environmentalist 2020&top 100 Meaningful business 2020
Ep 1997FinHIre Founder Needs to Solve Marketplace Problem but Won't Quit Full Time Job
Antonis is a marketing professional with extensive experience within the e-commerce industry and a large presence in the Berlin startup scene. He has had the privilege of working for Fortune 500 companies and other top brands in the US and Europe. In 2020 he founded his second company, finhire.me.
Ep 1996Hipotecalo Does $15m in Home Buyer Loans, Charges 13% gives investors 7%, they make the spread
Seasoned executive with broad experience in all aspects related to Business Development, Turnarounds, Fund Raising, Corporate Finance & Strategic Advisory. Deeply experience in M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Debt Restructuring and Chapter 11 processes. Experienced in leading the digital transformation and immersion process in a fintech company (B2P) in Argentina, leading the transformation of a business model for a home lending company (from P2P to B2P) in Uruguay and expanding the business regionally. In his activity as mentor at Ivy Executives he has empowered skills of several leading people around the world
Ep 1995Party.Space Makes $200k From One Customer, Hopin Challenger Next?
Ex-finance-bro. 4 years in VC/PE tech-focused investment firm CYFRD. Keen on hustle culture & b2b-sales.
Ep 1994Packy McCormick Not Boring Substack Hits $50k Revenue, 25k Subs
Packy is the founder of Not Boring, a weekly newsletter covering strategy and finance through the stories of companies big and small. After starting his career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Packy spent six years as the NYC GM and VP, Experience at Breather.
Ep 1993Varbi HR Tool Hits $3.7m, $400k Profit Helping 2m Job Applicants find Opportunities
Live and breathe business internationalization and entrepreneurship. Started out as consultant assisting Swedish companies abroad, founded and co-founded three start-ups between 2005-2011. Sold the first company in 2012, the second in 2019, and now I work with internationalization at Varbi as well as being COB. Married. Two kids.
Ep 1992UnicornPlatform Bootstrapped, 500 customers, Doesn't Want "Scale at all costs"
CEO and founder of Unicorn Platform, the landing page builder for startups, creator of Broadwise.org, the startup community, DJ.
Ep 1991WeTipi Raising $500k Pre-Launch for Matching Tenants with Homeowners
Entrepreneur with extensive knowledge of technology and product. Started my first company in school selling cheat sheets. Cofounded Foodo an online same day grocery delivery. Supported LEAD energy AG in moving R&D to Europe, both software and hardware. Built two custom ERP systems from scratch.
Ep 1990Amilia Makes $8m/yr From Event Organizers on 3 Revenue Streams
Founder and CEO of Amilia, one of Quebec's fastest-growing tech companies. Providing the first activity-based eCommerce SaaS solution to organizations all over North America, he has made it his mission to help administrators streamline their day-to-day tasks to allow them to focus on growth and prosperity. A passionate entrepreneur and former venture capitalist, Francois has over 30 years of experience investing in early-stage software and internet companies. His expertise in evaluating investment opportunities, negotiating deals, and supporting companies in their development gives him a unique perspective and distinctive voice in the fast-paced Canadian startup community. Francois is also a tireless worker who is constantly looking to stay ahead of the software development curve and stand out as a visionary in the industry.
Ep 1989LeadCrunch Hits $24m Revenue, $650k Revenue Per Employee, Raising $30m for 20% Of Business 2021?
Ep 1988Billd Construction Fintech Lends $100m to Subcontractors, Makes 12%+ Spread
Christopher Doyle is an entrepreneur and business leader with extensive hands-on construction industry experience and a proven record of launching successful startups. He is the founder, president and CEO of Billd, a disruptive payment solution for the construction industry that helps contractors and suppliers grow their businesses with less hassle and risk. Recognizing cash flow hurdles contractors face when purchasing materials, Doyle launched Billd to make traditional Wall Street working capital accessible to these small business owners.
Ep 1987FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
Logistics and innovation run through Oren's veins. Following his parents' footsteps, who created their own freight forwarder after years with Foreman's van line, he founded his own 100-truck fleet at age 20, providing white-glove freight service throughout the U.S. and Canada. Next came SolSource, Oren's first brokerage, which services major clients like Whole Foods and opened his eyes to the unnecessary complications and inefficiencies of LTL shipping. Now, after 20+ years in freight, Oren's built the solution that's revolutionizing the freight industry: Shared truckload.
Ep 1986LeagueApps Passes $1b in Event Revenue, Takes 4%
Ep 1985Jamespot Profits $40k/mo on $4m Revenue helping Teams Stay Connected
Ep 1984How Lately Hit $900k For Social Media Automation Tool Using AI, $7m valuation
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which uses AI to automatically transform longform content like blogs, podcasts and videos into dozens of ""smart"" social posts it learns will yield the highest engagement from your audience. As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, and got them a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years. Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She's also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise.
Ep 1983Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
Derek Steer is the CEO of Mode, a new startup enabling data scientists to share and discover work. With Mode, analysts are more productive and connected, both publicly within the data community and privately within organizations.Before co-founding Mode in 2013, Derek was an early member of Yammer's Analytics team. There, he built tools to identify strong leads and customers at risk of attrition within a pool of freemium users. Derek has also worked in antitrust economics and on the Monetization Analytics team at Facebook.
Ep 1982NessLabs Hits 1,500 Members Paying $75k, Software Next?
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the founder of Ness Labs, an online platform offering neuroscience-based content and coaching to thousands of entrepreneurs and knowledge workers. Prior to Ness Labs, she led marketing for digital health products at Google. She holds a MSc in applied neuroscience from King's College London.
Ep 1981BossInsights 2x YoY to 5 Customers Helping Lenders Capture Data
Former banker & 2nd time founder, Keren Moynihan is the CEO/co-founder of Boss Insights. Boss Insights offers Business Data as a Service. Their single API enables easy access to hundreds of sources (Quickbooks, SalesForce, Stripe) bridging data gaps between banks and business customers in under 1 minute. Banks know where a business was, is and will be on demand. Keren has 15+ years' experience in financial services as a banker, advisor and is on the Commonwealth's Women Invested Advisory Council. Under her leadership, Boss was awarded the 2020 Unicorn Challenge and 2019 Executive leader in lending, featured in Forbes, ABA and The Financial Brand for saying Banks must adopt APIs or Fintechs will win.
Ep 1980How GoSun Sold 50,000 Units, $4m Revenue, 250k Community, Software Next?
Patrick has worked with solar for over 20 years, and maintains a diverse background in design, social enterprise and manufacturing. Volunteering in developing countries has inspired Patrick to create solar solutions that meet essential needs like cooking, cooling and sanitation.
Ep 1979KPISense Raising $1.5m Now on $1.2m Revenues As Tech Enabled CFO For SaaS Founders
Will has over a decade of experience helping SaaS and software businesses solve their strategic financial challenges. During that timeframe, Will has led, operated, advised and/or invested in over 100 SaaS and software companies. In March 2019, Will founded KPI Sense to re-invent the concept of outsourced CFO and FP&A work for SaaS and Software businesses. Using tech-enabled automation and vertical market expertise within SaaS, KPI Sense offers a blended product and service solution that allows companies to tackle all of the financial needs, including financial modeling, analytics, forecasting, budgeting, fundraising and M&A.
Ep 1978Willco Breaks 10k Customers, $1m Revenue, $6m Valuation for End of Life Planning
Erin is an entrepreneur, speaker, startup advisor, and former technology journalist. She is co-founder and CEO at Willful, an online estate planning platform. She has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Forbes, and CNN, and she was named one of Marketing Magazine's top 30 Under 30 marketers.
Ep 1977EasyGenerators Grows 100% YoY to $4.2m Revenue, 1200 Customers
Kasper has been an industry leader in the L&D space for over 25 years. He has made an impact on this ever-evolving field as CEO of the fast growing scale up Easygenerator and as an e-learning blogger (kasperspiro.com), author and speaker at various e-learning conferences around the world.
Ep 1976EssayJack Raising $2m on $8m Valuation, $250k in ARR
Dr. Lindy Ledohowski (B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D.) was a former English teacher and then English professor in Canada before becoming an EdTech CEO for academic writing software platform, EssayJack. She has won numerous awards for her teaching, research, and publications, and is now an award-winning entrepreneur. She has published both peer-reviewed scholarship and popular pieces on writing and offers keynote addresses on webinars on EdTech, leadership, and academic writing.
Ep 1975OnCallHealth Grows 150% to $3m Run Rate for Virtual Patient Care HealthTech
Nicholas Chepesiuk is the Founder & CEO of OnCall Health. Prior to starting OnCall in 2016, Nicholas was an early hire at education technology company Top Hat, and marketing technology company Turnstyle (acquired by Yelp).
Ep 1974WhatConverts Hits $2.1m Revenue, $300k Profits in Call Tracking Space
Started first business (online industrial directory) in 1999 in South Africa, and is still in operation today. Personally moved to UK in 2001 to have a more politically stable business base. Then moved to USA in 2006, as US based clients began to increase. Over the years we morphed from an industrial directory to a digital marketing agency. In 2014 co-founder and I began discussing how to solve lead tracking and reporting problem with marketing clients. We officially launched WhatConverts in March 2015. We've enjoyed the boot-strapped growth, and as a company it feels like we're still in the early stages of where we're going.
Ep 1973AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing
Alogpix is the only place to understand eCommerce market share, pricing, and promotions of your competitors and category in real-time . Powering Fortune 50 CPGs and Marketplaces, Algopix gives you a window into now, not weeks ago with 1P + 3P Coverage so you can adjust to current market conditions, boost sessions and conversions with more relevant merchandising and pricing.
Ep 1972WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
Ep 1971WIldJar Call Tracking, a 5 person $2m Revenue Business, wow!
Co founder and CEO of WildJar First startup. Bootstrapped - started in 2016. Born in New Zealand, grew up in Australia and currently living in the Scotland 🐑🐑🐑
Ep 1970AgentRisk Has $27m in AUM, Better Version of Family Office?
I am a serial Entrepreneur (my third Startup got acquired for a 17x return to investors by $SPLK) and I love making companies with a little bit of funding, tons of freedom and small teams. I am an active Angel Investor, organizer of many tech meetups in LA and I still write code (I have a super strong engineering background). I have been a speaker/lecturer to tons of events all over the world about Entrepreneurship and Startups and I love helping founders.
Ep 1969Credo Hits $300k Revenue By Paying $2m to SEO Consultants
Credo was founded and is run by John Doherty. John has almost a decade of experience in SEO and online marketing. Before starting Credo, he ran marketing/growth for HotPads and Trulia Rentals, part of the Zillow Group family of real estate brands. Before that he was a consultant at Distilled, where he was the most senior consultant and a founding member of the New York City office. During his time there he consulted with everyone from small VC-backed startups (who closed rounds of funding because of his work) to large international hotel chains with multiple brands and brand needs. He lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Courtney and their very large black labrador Butterbean.
Ep 1968Atrium Breaks $14m Doing AI Consulting
As CEO of Atrium, Chris leads a world-class team in empowering companies to embrace the next generation of tech through the power of AI. Chris brings more than 15 years of sales, professional services and marketing experience across solution areas including CRM, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and custom application development.
Ep 1967How Shipmonk CEO Kept $5m of $10m Series A Round, Breaking $80m In Revenue 2019
Ep 1966LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
Prayag is founder and Executive Chairman of LeadGenius. Before founding LeadGenius in 2011, Prayag worked at Finland's top research institute as an expert in Ubiquitous Interaction and built mobile applications and embedded systems in Delhi's startup scene. He is an author of several book chapters and papers on Human Computer Interaction, Computer Networks and Network Security. He has a M.S. in Information Science from U.C. Berkeley and a B.S. degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology India. Connect via twitter @prayagn. He describes himself as, "a standup guy who loves history, poetry, startups and Scotch."
Ep 1965FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Eric is a Central Oregon native, Cal Poly graduate and startup founder with a passion for entrepreneurship. Whether it be building a tech company from the ground up, investing in real estate or flipping cars on craigslist, a desire to construct his own success has inspired his actions.
Ep 1964FanDuel Co-Founder Launched New Relationship App Idea, $2m Raised
Lesley Eccles is the Founder and CEO of Relish, the first-ever relationship training app making it easier to build happy, healthy, more connected relationships. She was previously co-founder and former head of marketing at FanDuel, the billion dollar fantasy sports company. Lesley also served on FanDuel's board of directors.
Ep 1963Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
Jag Singh, Vid.camera founder and CEO
Ep 1962Tenon Hits 2m Revenue In Automated Testing Space
Web accessibility testing has a problem: testing after the fact. Tenon seeks to solve that. Tenon is a one of a kind accessibility testing tool in that it is aimed at offering unprecedented flexibility in tooling for designers developers testers and content authors. Tenon achieves these goals via its API which can be seamlessly integrated into your existing toolset. It doesn't matter what IDE you use, what CMS you use, what automated build and deploy tool you use, or what you use for unit testing, acceptance testing, or issue tracking, Tenon can be added to these workflows. This ability to test early and often allows you to catch and fix accessibility issues before they happen, not after, and allows you to release accessible code from the beginning.
Ep 1961FundThrough Hits $240m in Invoices Advanced to 2k+ Founders
Ep 1960RedSeal Sold 50%+ For $60m This Year doing $50m in Revenues in CyberSecurity Space
Ray joined RedSeal as CEO in February 2014. Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal's founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies.
Ep 1959G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation
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.
Ep 1958She Hit $12m in Revenue, Raised $5m in VC, Then Just Bought Out Investors, How?!
Jessica Rovello is the CEO and co-founder of Arkadium, which provides interactive content to the world's most well-known brands and publishers, including CNN, Comcast, Microsoft, The Washington Post and USA Today. Jessica is the winner of the American Business Award for Executive of the Year, the Stevie Award for Entrepreneur of Year, was named one of SmartCEO's Future 50 and is a Crain's New York "40 Under 40" winner.
Ep 1957OrderDesk Does $60k Monthly, Profits $10k, Growing Via Shopify App Exchange
David Hollander is the founder of Order Desk, an app that helps merchants save time on their ecommerce order management. He started Order Desk as a side-project six years ago, and it's now grown into a bootstrapped company employing six people and grossing $60K/month.
Ep 1956LetsChat Helping Outbound Sales Initiate Chat with Prospects Starting with Email
Ankesh, was born in India, educated in London, based in Silicon Valley. ATSystems, 0-$22m in 4 years. Sold to TMP/Monster. Personic, 0- $25m in 4 years. Raised $50m, Personic sold to Kronos. Sold patents to Google for "Sharing as a Page Ranking Mechanism," prior to Facebook's "Like button"