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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Ep 2024GetRoute Builds Cleaning Business to $10m in 2020, Now Launches Software

I am a Passionate Entrepreneur who is driven by empowering the Commercial cleaning industry. My purpose is to motivate and inspire my peers, family, colleagues with Positivity. Share my genius. I am the Ricky the cleaner that is innovating and building technology to help the pen and paper cleaning and field services industry. My motto is Stronger Together.

Feb 7, 202119 min

Ep 2023How Loomly Hit 7k Customers, $4.2m SaaS Revenue Starting With An Agency

A self-taught programmer, Thibaud began building software to make Noemie's job easier in 2015. Back then, the pair was managing a marketing agency and developed an in-house solution to streamline the process of creating and sharing editorial calendars with their clients. Encouraged by early feedback from their own customers and peers about their prototype, Thibaud and Noemie decided to make it available to other marketing teams: Loomly was born.

Feb 6, 202119 min

Ep 2022How SurferSEO hit $3m Revenue Bootstrapped Using Chrome Extension, Affiliates

Digital marketer with love for SEO. Michał co-founded Surfer and has been evangelizing the product and data-driven approach to optimization ever since. He trained hundreds of SEOs, copywriters, and marketers on on-page SEO, writing, and content marketing strategies.

Feb 5, 202120 min

Ep 2021LightHousePE Hits $10k MRR Helping Brick and Mortar Keep Customers

Andrew Steele is the CEO of LighthousePE, a location-based mobile behavioral engagement platform. He previously co-founded and led 3 startups in healthcare and enterprise SaaS, and earlier led marketing, sales and business development for high growth businesses acquired by Comcast, Motorola and Microsoft.

Feb 4, 202114 min

Ep 2020MediaMash Raising $1.5m So You Can Own Your Audience

A digital strategist, Donna was fortunate to be part of the team who founded the hybrid video platform, MediaMash.tech as CEO. The platform is geared for brands and influencers with large audiences. It helps keep their audience in their universe, while fostering brand development and reducing reliance on social channels.

Feb 3, 202116 min

Ep 2019FlaskData Software For Patient Trials Hits $350k ARR

I am a solid-state physicist by training, serious amateur musician and tech entrepreneur developing automated detection and response for virtual clinical trials.

Feb 2, 202114 min

Ep 2018How UseTopic Bootstrapped to $20k in MRR in 12 Months

Nikhil Aitharaju is an entrepreneur who started a multi-million dollar SaaS business in college using SEO and content marketing. After successfully selling the company in 2018 he is now working on a new product to help others achieve similar marketing success for their businesses.

Feb 1, 202114 min

Ep 2017eComVids Pivots to SaaS For DropShippers to Get Product Creatives

I came up. Then I hit hit rock bottom. But I found my way. Then I hit a depressive period. Decided to take control again and I'm prepared to make an exit by the end of 2021.

Jan 31, 202116 min

Ep 2016SaaS CEO Launches PPE Factory, $10m Sales of Surgical Masks, American Made

Lloyd is the Founder of Armbrust American, a U.S. manufacturer of surgical masks and PPE launched in May 2020 making over $10MM annually. In 2008, he founded OwnLocal, a Y Combinator-backed startup responsible for generating $300+ million in revenue for more than 3,000 local publications over the last decade. Lloyd currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and five children.

Jan 30, 202119 min

Ep 2015SalesPlaybook Did $320k in Sales Helping SaaS Founders Sell

Manuel built up https://thesalesplaybook.io/ bootstrapped from 0 to 100+ customers and 350k+ annual revenue in less than 2 years to help committed B2B entrepreneurs selling CHF 25'000-CHF 250'000 deals grow annual revenues by 100-400% by hitting product-market-fit and scaling up sales faster without hiring expensive sales reps.

Jan 29, 202113 min

Ep 2014SEO Secrets from Shopify, G2 Head of SEO Strategy

Kevin Indig leads SEO as Director @ Shopify and is the creator of the Growth Memo newsletter. Previously, he ran SEO @ G2 and Atlassian and worked with companies like eBay, Eventbrite, Samsung, Pinterest, and many others.

Jan 28, 202122 min

Ep 2013How Pepperi Hit $11m Revenue Bootstrapped, Rollup Next?

Ofer Yourvexel is the co-founder and CEO of Pepperi, the B2B sales platform for brands and wholesalers. Prior to founding Pepperi, Mr. Yourvexel spent over 20 years in executive leadership positions with enterprise technology companies including Amdocs, Jacada, Enigma, and Tefen

Jan 27, 202115 min

Ep 2012ScholarshipOwl 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.

Jan 26, 202115 min

Ep 2011Solar Panel Install Software Breaks $26k/mo, Raising $1.5m on $6m Valuation

Love solar & technology. Started The Solar Labs as a Senior in college. My vision is to help solar installers scale their businesses (and thereby bring more solar to the world) and install better engineering solar systems.

Jan 25, 202114 min

Ep 2010Modigie Gets You Accurate Prospect Cell Numbers, Hits $300k ARR, 29 Customers

Ken Hoppe is Founder and CEO of Modigie. Prior to Modigie Ken spent 18+ years in various tech leadership roles, experiencing firsthand the widespread shift to mobile-for-business communications. Realizing the significant hurdle in sales productivity due to lack of connection, Ken now strives to transform the B2B sales and marketing process with Modigie; the most effective, real-time mobile phone verification and enrichment platform for Salesforce.

Jan 24, 202115 min

Ep 2009Proposify Hits $7m Revenue Driving Expansion Into 200 Enterprise Accounts with $10k+ ACV's

Kyle Racki is the co-founder and CEO of Proposify, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which currently serves more than ten thousand customers worldwide. He started his first business, a web design company, at age twenty-four and sold it after five years. Kyle has blogged extensively about his journey through the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and is the author of Free Trials (and Tribulations): How To Build A Business While Getting Punched In The Mouth. He lives in Halifax and loves spending time with his wife, Christina, and his three sons, Micah, Ty, and Theo.

Jan 23, 202121 min

Ep 2008Queen of Community Rosie Sherry Reveals Secrets of Engagement, Growth, Monetization

Rosie previously bootstrapped Ministry of Testing, a community for software testers, to 7 figures. Now she leads the community over at Indie Hackers and is building up Rosieland, a community for community builders, on the side.

Jan 22, 202116 min

Ep 2007Finimize Uses 1m Email List to Launch API SaaS, Grows to 30% of Total Revenue

Founder of Finimize, the world's largest and most engaged finance community •Previously co-founded one of the largest ecommerce players in Switzerland, sold with 200 employees to the largest Swiss media house •Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016, mentor at Techstars

Jan 21, 202126 min

Ep 2006Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Peter Smit has spent half his life on either side of the Atlantic. He has lived in 7 countries and speaks four languages Raised in the age of matrix management, running programs, initiatives, projects and business globally, he has long been a proponent of collaboration and the tools which enable it. He is the CEO and founder of Collabogence, a Toronto-based firm which used data to measure the changes in effectiveness and productivity of people and spaces.

Jan 20, 202116 min

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.

Jan 19, 202117 min

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.

Jan 18, 202115 min

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

Jan 17, 202114 min

Ep 2002LennysNewsletter On Building 45k List, 2.5k Slack Group, Monetization Strategies and Substack Future

Jan 16, 202126 min

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.

Jan 15, 202117 min

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.

Jan 14, 202113 min

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

Jan 13, 202113 min

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

Jan 12, 202118 min

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.

Jan 11, 202112 min

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

Jan 10, 202115 min

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.

Jan 9, 202115 min

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.

Jan 8, 202118 min

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.

Jan 7, 202114 min

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.

Jan 6, 202118 min

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.

Jan 5, 202111 min

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.

Jan 4, 202117 min

Ep 1989LeadCrunch Hits $24m Revenue, $650k Revenue Per Employee, Raising $30m for 20% Of Business 2021?

Jan 3, 202119 min

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.

Jan 2, 202129 min

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.

Jan 1, 202124 min

Ep 1986LeagueApps Passes $1b in Event Revenue, Takes 4%

Dec 31, 202016 min

Ep 1985Jamespot Profits $40k/mo on $4m Revenue helping Teams Stay Connected

Dec 30, 202014 min

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.

Dec 29, 202016 min

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.

Dec 28, 202026 min

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.

Dec 27, 202018 min

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.

Dec 26, 202019 min

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.

Dec 25, 202021 min

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.

Dec 24, 202014 min

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.

Dec 23, 202018 min

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.

Dec 22, 202014 min

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.

Dec 21, 202021 min

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).

Dec 20, 202015 min