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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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Ep 18768base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.

Albert Santalo is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur experienced in building high growth, venture-backed technology companies. He is the founder and CEO of 8base and formerly founded CareCloud and Avisena.

Sep 11, 202026 min

Ep 1875Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers

CEO and cofounder of trend.io born and raised in Puerto Rico living in Denver, CO.

Sep 10, 202018 min

Ep 1874Jiga3d Connects Engineers to Manufacturers, 30 Transactions at $2k each so Far

Software engineer by trade, designer by heart and entrepreneur in soul. Founded and bootstrapped Spontix until it's M&A, and served as a software R&D team leader in multiple positions.

Sep 9, 202016 min

Ep 1873KoalaRank Content Marketing System Has 5 Customers Paying $900/mo

Coming from the world of content writing, I've had many opportunities to write for interesting companies who didn't know how to strategize their content marketing efforts. That's when I decided to make the switch.

Sep 8, 202014 min

Ep 1872Edusign Launches During COVID, Hits $10k MRR, 300 Customers for Signing Tool

Elliot Boucher is the co-founder of Edusign, a SaaS that makes attendance sheets management simple online and offine. He is also the founder of Ecommerce RTM, former Capgemini consultant and best seller of online courses on Udemy.

Sep 7, 202011 min

Ep 1871Visably Helps You Manage Search Exposure, $700k Raised, Pre-Revenue, Launch Soon

As an owner and principal of a PR agency for over a decade, Chris has thoroughly explored the intersection of PR and search engine strategy. Chris' newest venture, "Visably," is a new SaaS software the identifies a brand's footprint in search. Chris is passionate about helping brands reach their needle-in-the-haystack customer and evangelizing multi-channel search strategy.

Sep 6, 202017 min

Ep 1870RockContent 2x To $25m in Last 12 Months, Helping 2000 Customers Scale Content

Diego Gomes is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Rock Content a SaaS Blogger/Researcher/Evangelist. Rock is the among the fastest-growing SaaS companies and a global leader in Content Marketing Solutions. Diego is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, Angel Investor and in his spare time he blogs at http://saasholic.com ;)

Sep 5, 202023 min

Ep 1869JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue

Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business market with deep experience in B2B high velocity new customer acquisition. As CEO of JazzHR, Lamson is responsible for JazzHR's strategic direction, company performance, day-to-day business operations, and serves as a support center for our revenue teams.

Sep 4, 202018 min

Ep 1867Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?

Madwire® is a technology company that provides business management and marketing software and services for SMBs and franchises. Madwire® was founded in 2009 with the mission of helping small businesses grow and their local communities glow.

Sep 3, 202019 min

Ep 1866Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles

Sabba Keynejad is the co-founder and CEO of VEED an [online video editing](http://veed.io/) platform. Together with his co-founder Tim, they bootstrapped VEED from 0-1M ARR in its the first 12 months of operating. VEED is a fully-fledged collaborative video editing used by many influencers, coaches and business for [adding subtitles](https://www.veed.io/add-subtitles-video), [captions](https://www.veed.io/add-captions-video), [text](https://www.veed.io/add-text-to-video), [merging videos](https://www.veed.io/tools/merge-videos-online), [making meme videos](https://www.veed.io/create/video-meme-maker) and much more.

Sep 2, 202021 min

Ep 1865Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool

Amit Bendov is the co-founder and CEO of Gong.io, the # 1 Revenue Intelligence platform for sales. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in hyper-growth enterprise software startups managing product, marketing, and sales for global corporations. Prior to founding Gong.io, Amit was CEO of SiSense and CMO of Panaya.

Sep 1, 202025 min

Ep 1864NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue

I'm a self-taught developer and entrepreneur from Scotland. I launched No CS Degree a year ago to inspire people to learn coding. It features 90 interviews with developers that taught themselves coding or learned at bootcamps. I also have a jobs board, a bootcamp index and an imposter syndrome book.

Aug 31, 202019 min

Ep 1863Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised

Pavel is a serial entrepreneur from Moscow, Russia. Launched e-commerce projects, lifestyle app. Founded Directual in 2014, when there was no such terms as low-coding or no-coding. But there was an idea—to let people create complex digital products as easily as possible. Before Spring 2020 Directual worked with enterprise clients, but in April 2020 Directual went public and offered SaaS—the low-code platform for the mass market.

Aug 30, 202013 min

Ep 1862Ceptinel FinTech Founder Spent $700k, Now Has $6k in MRR, Whats Next?

Miguel Fuentes Buchholtz has 12 years of Software Engineering experience and 6 as Entrepreneur, founding Variacode (ITaaS), cofounding tuten.cl (an "uber" for last mile operation optimization SaaS for big companies) and Ceptinel, a SaaS RegTech that helps financial institution fight corruption, money laundering and fraud. Also working as advisor for local Chilean Startups OrionX (Cryptocurrency exchange), Nexoabogados.cl (attorney marketplace) and Banca.me (online financial services)

Aug 29, 202019 min

Ep 1861Djaodjin Gets Customers from Github, $6k in MRR, Raising $500k on $1m Valuation?

I started a video game studio, a micro-processor company, and built 2 SaaS businesses before DjaoDjin. If you believe a couple semiconductor patents I am quite an engineer though some people remember me as a group fitness instructor. Married with children, my ambition is to help people run sustainable micro-businesses.

Aug 28, 202014 min

Ep 1860Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades

Ben is a personal finance nerd turned software developer. He left his first job out of college after 6 months to launch Wingman, a trade tracker for options traders. Two years later, he is running it part-time and leads product as a co-founder at The TIE, a fintech data business.

Aug 27, 202027 min

Ep 1859WebHookRelay DevOps Tool Hits $120k Revenue, 1 person team, bootstrapped

Entrepreneur, full-stack engineer with extensive experience in compute infrastructure, networks, Kubernetes and developer tooling. Spent last five years working between infrastructure projects (networks, storage), building data science/ML platform and starting a new project for public transport sector.

Aug 26, 202012 min

Ep 1858WpBuffs Hits $100k in MRR Supporting Wordpress Sites Using Whitelabel Partners

Fallibilist 💯 Founder & CEO at @thewpbuffs 💪 Co-host at the WPMRR #WordPress podcast 🎙 @Everton TID ⚽

Aug 25, 202023 min

Ep 1857BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token

Adam Jackson is a software engineer turned tech entrepreneur and investor who started 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years. Adam seeks to create open, equitable marketplaces that use customer-focused technology to boost collaboration between users, without the costs and friction of conventional channels.

Aug 24, 202040 min

Ep 1856ButtonDown Email Is Niche Mailchimp, Hits $5k in MRR

I work at Stripe, making it easier for companies of all sizes to understand and improve their core operations. Before that, I was the first technical hire at a commercial real estate startup and an engineer at Amazon making it more fun for you to read books on your Kindle.

Aug 23, 202015 min

Ep 1855Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool

Adam Driscoll is a solo founder, Microsoft MVP and longer time open-source contributor. His software is used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. When not working, he's an outdoor enthusiast, long distance endurance athlete and beer lover.

Aug 22, 202017 min

Ep 1854Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Founder and CEO of Kovai.co, a multi-product software company based out of London. Build and scaled 4 successful B2B and SaaS products with 1200+ enterprise customers. Document360 is the latest product in the portfolio, a knowledge base product born out of their frustration writing documentation for their other enterprise products.

Aug 21, 202023 min

Ep 1853HackerEarth 4.5m Developer Community Breaks $5m Run Rate, 100% Net Retention

Sachin is the founder/CEO at HackerEarth and has grown HackerEarth to a global SaaS platform with hundreds of customers and millions of users. Sachin leads the Marketing team, Sales and Operations team. He is also responsible for Product Management and Strategy.

Aug 20, 202019 min

Ep 1852Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits!

Baird is a tech entrepreneur that has co-founded multiple bootstrapped SaaS companies designed to help podcasters & video creators to get more reach & engagement on social media. As a founding partner in Lofi Ventures, he has co-founded Wavve, Zubtitle, & duplikit.

Aug 19, 202030 min

How Wil Schroter Made Money at 22 years Old to Eventually Launch Startups.com

Aug 19, 20201h 32m

Ep 1851MonetizeMore Bootstrapped to $5m Run Rate in AdTech Space

MonetizeMore provides ad tech to huge AdSense publishers. The tech chooses the highest paying advertiser for each ad placement. This results in dramatically higher ad revenues for the publisher.

Aug 18, 202023 min

Ep 1850SuperLemon Breaks 5k Leads From Shopify Monthly, $30k in MRR for Whatsapp Ecommerce Tool

Problem solver and entrepreneur from the heart, I am the chilled out guy at a party who will talk about living a good life and building a business.

Aug 17, 202014 min

Ep 1849SnapBar Looses $3m Photobooth Revenue COVID, Pivots in 8 Days, Makes $500k on New Idea, How?

Sam is the co-founder and CEO of SnapBar, an Inc. 500 company, that uses photo and video experiences to help planners, producers and marketers create better engagement at events. He also co-founded Keep Your City Smiling, a gifting company that supports small businesses struggling as a result of the pandemic.

Aug 16, 202020 min

Ep 1848NittioLead LMS Charges $13k/yr, Hits 15 Customers Using Linked Outreach

Corporate warrior for 17 years, did product management for Nokia, Infinera and Amazon before turning entrepreneur (in 2015). Pivoted NittioLearn from ed-tech to corporate learning in end of 2016. Convinced that just like CRMs, no one learning tool can fit all parts of the organization.

Aug 15, 202014 min

Ep 1847LogoPackage Sells $80k One Time To Fuel New SaaS Tool MVP

I began my journey to entrepreneurship with a BFA in Graphic Design from Western Michigan University. I made Chicago my home after graduation and worked for design agencies for 4 years before going freelance. When a major client went under, I started exploring product design and The Logo Package was born. Now it's my full-time work and primary source of income.

Aug 14, 202021 min

Ep 1846Artivatic Insurtech API $1m Revenue, Closing $500k Round Now

Aug 13, 202017 min

Ep 1845LetSign Gives out Digital Certificates, 18 Customers, $2k MRR, Pandemic Helps?

A seasoned Data Scientist who has successfully built data products different verticles some are for the largest FMCG's and Retail, Banking, Telecom, Social, Government from scratch, and deployed it successfully. He has experience of developing products which are a combination of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural networks, Collective Intelligence & Web Intelligence. Actively involved in building some of the state-of-art Open source Machine Learning Libraries. Also adjunct prof with some of the prestigious institutions.

Aug 12, 202014 min

Ep 1844HireClub: How 32k Member FB Group Fueled $25k MRR SaaS Business

I love helping people succeed in their careers and I turned a Facebook group into a startup that's increased salaries by over $2m for clients.

Aug 11, 202019 min

Ep 1843BillBooks Invoicing Tool Hits 5,000 Paying Customers, Bootstrapped

Started digital agency at the age of 18 from Pune India. Launched Billbooks in 2011 with an aim to simplify invoicing with practical features and cost effective to freelancers and small businesses. I have always been facinated by computer software from the age of 10 and never imagined an alternate passion or career option. I pursued a corresponding degree in design and technology along with my core degree in business management. This fuelled my entrepreneurship skills before starting a global design agency, Billbooks, Framesbuy (an ecom for eyewear) and a few more businesses.

Aug 10, 202022 min

Ep 1842SalesPanda Launches Insurance Broker Pages at Scale, Profitable, Hits $400k Revenue

I'm a digital marketing enthusiast and career sales guy. From selling auto components to computer software my life has circled around customers. After having worked for 15 years in companies like IBM, PwC, TCS, I decided to venture on my own. SalesPanda is an effort to help companies leverage the digital reach of their sales teams and channel partners to grow the customer outreach by 20X

Aug 9, 202014 min

Ep 1841KarmaBot Slack Tool Hits $200k Revenues, 233 Customers Using App Exchanges

I grew up in the far-easter part of Siberia, studied Computer Science and Nuclear Physics, played in a band, got excited by the indie-games making and left uni to become a digital designer. For several years in the early 00's, I've been working remotely, traveling and blogging extensively (before that became a popular mainstream thing) and ended up in New Zealand. Nowadays, I'm 'digital-nomading' (NZ -> Argentina -> Chile -> UK) and build Karma.

Aug 8, 202020 min

Ep 1840Param Solutions hits $35k MRR helping People Get Gov Developer Jobs

I am one of the partners at Param Solutions based out of Ashburn, VA. We specialize in Human Capital Solutions and are passionate about helping our clients save on recruiting costs. I have a bachelor's in engineering and a Master's in MIS. I have over 2 decades of experience in Recruiting/Staffing/Corporate/In-house Recruiting and enjoy every aspect of candidate acquisition. I am squarely responsible for strategy, implementation, growth and account management for all accounts at Param that fall under the purview of our Human Capital vertical. After 8 years of running Param's staffing division I have created a new business service called Recruiting As A Service in Novemeber of 2018 to help clients save significant amounts of time while recruiting for talent, decrease time to fill, increase quality fof hires and eliminate exhorbitant recruiting fees!

Aug 7, 202020 min

Ep 1839ProfitBooks Hit $1m Revenue 2019, COVID Keeps Them Flat This Year

Founder at ProfitBooks. Worked with MNCs like HSBC and Barclays for over 9yrs and helped them implement banking solutions before I started my own company. Started ProfitBooks in 2012 and since then acquired 75,000+ users on the platform. It's India's most popular accounting software today. Currently building solutions to organise single-person-bookkeeper industry.

Aug 6, 202021 min

Ep 1838SupportBee Ticket Software Hits $45k MRR, Bootstrapped, how?

Hana Mohan is an entrepreneur, cyclist and an aspiring writer. She is a proud transgender woman (pronouns: she/her) and lives in Barcelona with her two cats.

Aug 5, 202019 min

Ep 1837Closet.Tools 1 Man Show, $250k Profits, $360k in Revenue, Wow!

Born and raised in rural western NY. Went to engineering school and worked as an electrical engineer for 7 years. Started Closet Tools as a way to pay down student loans, and transitioned to full-time founder when it made more than double what I made at my day job.

Aug 4, 202018 min

Ep 1836SalesRoads: SaaS Companies Hire Him To Build SDR Team

David Kreiger is the Founder and President of SalesRoads, a business-to-business appointment setting, lead generation and SDR outsourcing company. He has been named as one of The Most Influential Leaders in Sales & Lead Management by the SLMA. David has led SalesRoads through significant growth and the company was twice listed on the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies. SalesRoads has been David consulted by some of the largest and fastest growing companies to help their organizations accelerate their sales through proactive prospecting

Aug 3, 202021 min

Ep 1835Woven.com: Ex Facebook CIO Looking to Re-Invent How We Setup Meetings

As the former Chief Information Officer at Facebook, Tim Campos doubled overall productivity to $1.8 million per employee - making it the most productive company in the world. Now, as CEO of Woven, he is reimagining how people use their calendar, so they can spend time on what matters most.

Aug 2, 202022 min

Ep 1834NoteAffect MVP Cost $1.6m, Founder Bootstrapping Using Cash From Last Exit

I am an entrepreneur. I like to transform ideas into working business models with multiple revenue streams. NoteAffect is my new venture (7th company) that provides software technology for the Education, Corporate, and Government sectors. I recently exited my 6th company, Core-apps.

Aug 1, 202021 min

Ep 1833Big brands, manufacturers with raw material (oil plastic) where going factory to warehouse.

Adam Compain is the Founder & CEO of ClearMetal. Prior to ClearMetal, Adam spent 5 years at Google launching their geoCommerce technology and 19 years as the Executive Director of SEND, the nonprofit he founded. Adam holds five technology patents, two degrees from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Stanford.

Jul 31, 202024 min

Ep 1832Qebot Raising $1.5m With $1.2m in ARR Helping 1500 SMB's Be More Productive

Matthew White is the CEO of Qebot. With a background in the digital marketing and mobile advertising sectors, Matthew and his partner Cornelius built Qebot to make businesses, franchises, and marketing agencies more productive by centralizing SaaS applications into a single platform.

Jul 30, 202020 min

Ep 1831PandaDoc Hits 14k Customers, $100+ ARPU, "Will Hit $19m in ARR in 2019"

Jul 29, 202033 min

Ep 1830"Vested.io HR Tech Company Placed 100 Candidates, Doing $400k/yr "

Akash Srivastava is Co-founder and CEO of Vested Technology, a recruiting automation platform. Vested Technology works alongside teams to identify, engage and hire passive candidates saving companies tons of money on additional headcount or agencies. Prior to founding Vested, Akash led finance at Handy and worked several roles on Wall Street. He took the scenic route to entrepreneurship; but he's a huge believer of 'better late than never'!

Jul 28, 202014 min

Ep 1829Advensure Launches, Hits 125 Customers in 4 Months Using 1 Big Channel

Founder at Advensure & Ekahal. Love solving problems. Scuba Diving Dive Master and hopeful Scuba Instructor. Amateur(ish) Photographer. Awaiting freedom of time to travel.

Jul 27, 202013 min

Ep 1828EngageRocket Targets $3m Raise on $15m Valuation For HR Tech Platform

CheeTung is the CEO of EngageRocket, a tech company using real-time analytics to help businesses improve talent retention and productivity. Columbia & Cambridge alum, economist by training. Generation T honoree for Asia Tatler, awarded to young leaders shaping the future of Asia.

Jul 26, 202017 min

Ep 1827Utm.io Hits 100 Customers, $75k Invested From Agency Biz, Now SaaS Focus

UTM.io is the internet's most loved UTM link builder. UTM.io is widely used by the best companies and enables teams of all sizes to get better campaign tracking data.

Jul 25, 202013 min