SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Sid's passionate about empowering open source, enabling great products, and evolving global processes. A self-taught Ruby developer, Sid commercialized GitLab with its creator in 2012 and graduated from Y-Combinator in 2015. Since then, GitLab has grown to 800+ remote team members across 55+ countries, and raised $188.2M in funding.

3 x SaaS founder with 2 exits + former COO at The Guardian. Dropped out of school at 16, started first company at 24. Currently building Churnly to help companies deeply understand their ICP, analyze online customer behavior and predict churn. Competitive mixed martial artist and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brown belt. Lives in London.

Founder and CEO of YetiCloud, Tim is a software engineer who recently left Capital One's Tech Fellow program to make IT service desks non-existent. Tim has over ten years of experience in large-scale operations, product, and open source communities. Before founding YetiCloud, he worked for Puppet, FINRA, and the US Navy.

I'm the founder of QuestionPro - a bootstrapped 20M run rate startup that helps companies measure and transform experiences. Born in India by way of Russia, Utah, Seattle, Bay Area - we are now in Austin - where I enjoy BBQ and briskets - we are on a mission to create a global, healthy, profitable SaaS company!

CEO & Co-founder of Rocket. Previously, CEO & Co-founder of Renzu (acquired by SurveyMonkey), VP @Zynga, PM @Amazon and Consultant @McKinsey. HBS and Princeton.

Founder & CEO, SaaS Labs Inc (maker of JustCall). Chemical engineer by education but love writing code. 4x entrepreneur, 2 exits, sold last business to New York Times. Active angel investor in SaaS businesses.

I am a patent entrepreneur that teaches and trains technology companies, and IP managers how to make a patent management process more efficient and transparent by using the IAMIP platform. My clients have thousands of patents in their patent portfolio and are struggling every day to keep track of their competition. The IAMIP platform have organized over 5 M patents and my clients have received of 100K automated monitoring's. Inventor to over 17 patents in the space of power systems and co-founder of IamIP, the 3-time award winning patent software, recognized by the Swedish (Vinnova) and Norwegian (Forskningsrådet) innovation agency and trusted by multiple fortune 500 companies. Searching for patents manually and sharing information over email was 20 years ago. Now it's time to upgrade ourselves. Revolutionizing the IP industry is my passion and focus. As the voice of the patent management platforms that IamIP spearheads, I speak on stages around the world helping companies learn how 100.000 patents impacts them every week and what to do about it, to audiences of up to 1000. IamIP have developed a patent platform that gather all stakeholder in a company to capture and exchange information about patents that puts them one step ahead of competition.

Mike Austin is the co-founder and CEO at Fresh Relevance. A serial entrepreneur, Mike founded his first software business when he was 16 and has been developing software and software businesses for more than two decades. Having worked in digital marketing for the majority of his career, Mike is an expert in tying digital experiences with traditional marketing databases, with a deep understanding of data and how to leverage it.

Zvi Schreiber (pronounced "tzvee shryber") is the Founder and CEO of Freightos, the digital backbone for the trillion dollar international freight industry. Previously Zvi was CEO of Lightech (acquired by GE), and Founder and CEO of Unicorn (acuqired by IBM) and Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet) and G.ho.st a predecessor of dropbox which ended in a fire sale. Zvi has spoken widely and written many articles and patents. He has a PhD in computer science and is author of Fizz which tells the history of physics as a novel.

Nikos is the CEO of Workable, makers of the popular recruiting software used by 20,000 companies in 100 countries. He led the company from its inception in 2012 to a fast-growing organization with 300 employees in the USA and Europe, raising $95m of venture financing from elite European and American investors. Nikos has appeared as a speaker at the Nantucket Conference, SaaStr and SaaStock, and has been interviewed in popular podcasts and media like Forbes and the New York Times. Nikos holds a Computer Science degree from Imperial College, London. He lives with his wife and two children in Boston, MA. His twitter handle is @moraitakis.

Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of BounceX, a marketing technology solution that brings a "logged-in" experience to logged-out website visitors across devices. Under Ryan's leadership, BounceX has been ranked #1 for employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld and named a best place to work by Crain's and Fortune.

Carson Conant is the CEO and Founder of Chicago-based sales enablement solution provider Mediafly. Under Carson's leadership, Mediafly has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company for five consecutive years, one of Inc.'s Best Workplaces of 2018, and a Best Place to Work by Crain's Chicago Business. Mediafly's software is currently leveraged by top Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo, MillerCoors, Disney, and Goldman Sachs.

Anand has a strong research and product building experience for the past 15 years and is keen on building Intelligent systems that can disrupt retail industry and create several fold efficiency. Anand is currently working on helping global retail brands with deep visibility into retail reality. In the past, he has led large scale analytics products at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA (2009-2013) and at IBM Research, India (2013-2015). Anand has a PhD degree (2009) in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, NY, USA and a B.E degree from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India.

After selling an agency to Disney, Scott ruined influencer marketing. He is now on a mission to change how we commerce is done. Word of mouth marketing will finally be measured.

Inkit's direct mail solution tracks and automates personalized letters, marketing collateral, statements, policies, compliance notices, and other pieces of physical mail. Inkit integrates with CRMs digitizing companies' offline points of contact with their customers - use cases include marketing campaigns, billing, and compliance notices. Inkit counts customers globally, including: P&G, Asana, and Bird.

MailUp Group is a leading player in the field of cloud marketing technologies, offers a broad spectrum of solutions with a focus on data-driven omni-channel marketing automation, used by SME's and large corporations to engage their customers. MailUp was founded in 2002, IPO in 2014 on the AIM Italia market.

Brian Pontarelli is a successful technology entrepreneur currently focused on solving login, registration, and user management challenges. Brian works with startup to Fortune 500 organizations struggling to address the complexity of secure CIAM as their businesses requirements evolve and user base scales from a handful of users to millions.

Pablo Estevez is the founder and CEO of Gus Chat, an AI company that helps companies improve their customer experience with AI and virtual agents. The company is based out of Mexico City with presence in Madrid, Bogota, Guatemala City and Buenos Aires. Gus Chat currently has over 60 clients like Office Depot, American Express and Walmart.

Craig has 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, corporate executive, CEO and attorney. He was the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Google Ventures and CEO of Dialpad Communications before it become Yahoo! Voice. He also founded GrandCentral Communications, which was acquired by Google and became Google Voice.

Connecting people, has been always my greatest joy. In a world with endless automation possibilities, it's the human connections, we need to take care of.

Serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, focused on the intersection of design, music, and commerce.

I'm a first generation immigrant, and second generation entrepreneur. I've studied, taught, and practiced design in 3 continents and 5 nations in the span of ten years. I've published over 10 patents and continued to innovate myself beyond the traditional archetype of a "designer."

Katica Roy is a gender economist & CEO of Pipeline, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to improve financial performance through gender equity. Pipeline launched the first gender equity app on Salesforce's AppExchange. Katica is a thought-leader, in the first half of 2019, her articles garnered over 600MM impressions.

Jason Hsiao is the Co-founder and Chief Video Officer of Animoto, an award-winning online video maker that makes it easy for anyone to create professional marketing videos. Animoto's certified partnerships with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the Small Business Administration give it unique insight into the changing social media and business landscape, which may be why more than 1 million businesses around the world have used Animoto to create marketing videos that stand out on social media and beyond. Prior to founding Animoto, Jason was a producer for MTV Networks and Comedy Central.

Jay is the President and CEO of Reveleer. In his role, he is responsible fostering product innovation, accelerating business growth and scaling operations to propel the Company's impact for health plans. He is a seasoned software and services executive with over 25 years of experience in various leadership capacities.

Luther is an entrepreneur, data scientist, and engineer passionate about energy efficiency and democratizing AI From boardrooms, to oilfields, to data centers, Luther has been transforming data from a cost to an asset for over 20 years. In 2013 he founded OAG Analytics to build a cloud platform that makes AI easy and scalable for the oil & gas industry. Luther is an expert at simplifying complex software and optimizing assets with advanced analytics.

Brennan is the co-founder of RightMessage and the founder of DoubleYourFreelancing.com. He's also started and sold another SaaS company, Planscope.

ZigZag Global is a software solution to help ecommerce retailers manage returns domestically and globally. The ZigZag platform connects major retailers to a global network of over 220 warehouses to over 100 carrier services and 50 marketplaces in over 130 countries - all from a single integration. ZigZag's mission is to help retailers become more sustainable whilst cutting costs by up to 57% and improving the speed of customer refunds by getting stock back in the supply chain more quickly. Clients include Topshop, GAP, Banana Republic, Superdry, DHL, Selfridges, Everlane, Seraphine and many more.

I have been in the AI/ML industry for 18 years. Some of that time in academia and some in industry as a data scientist. I have seen the struggle that companies face when trying to get a return on investment with AI and decided to fix that by creating Ople.

Bohumil studied Innovation Management and Marketing in Denmark and in the USA. After his studies, he was invited to launch a social media tool developed in a leading ad agency in Central Europe to the market. In less than 4 years, he and his team built a tool with more than 4000 brands and agencies on board such as IKEA, BBDO or VML. Bohumil has recently got into the Forbes 30 under 30 list and became Founder of a year in Slovakia.

Tim Valishev is a tech-CEO who coded the first version of JivoChat together with his partner and bootstrapped the company from zero to $5M in ARR and 10% worldwide market share by installations. Now Tim runs the distributed team of 120 people from a dozen of countries that rebuilds JivoChat from scratch every 2 years in order to stay up-to-date. Tim is based in Moscow, Russia.

Kunal Bhatia is a Product Designer from Boston, MA, now living in San Francisco, CA. He is the Co-founder and Design Lead at SlidesUp. He's an outdoor fitness enthusiast because of November Project and coaches at Uncommon Movement. Maybe you'll meet him at a free workout!

My journey to create Trueface began in 2012, leaving Merrill Lynch in Chicago and booking a one-way ticket to Casablanca, Morocco to pursue my entrepreneurial vision: make technology accessible, personal, and trustworthy.

Nick Hollinger is the CEO and Co-founder of Visitor Queue, a B2B SaaS company that has partnered with Google Analytics to identify the companies visiting a website. Bootstrapped, VQ currently works with ~5000 companies across the globe. He is also the Game Day Director for one of Canada's most successful Junior Hockey Teams.

Chris is the founder and CEO of Trainual, a SaaS platform for entrepreneurs and employees to get their business out of their brain by documenting and delegating the processes in their company.

Andy has been an entrepreneur since the age of 19. He's started and run multiple 7 figure businesses. SellerSEO, his current venture is a suite of SaaS tools dedicated to hel

Scott Lynn is the Founder and CEO of Masterworks, the first company to allow investors to buy shares representing ownership of great masterpieces by artists like Warhol, Monet, and Banksy. Scott has been an active collector of contemporary art for more than fifteen years and has built an internationally-recognized collection of Abstract Expressionism that has included works by Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and more. In addition to Masterworks, Scott serves on the board of v2 ventures (Adparlor, Giant Media, Reachmobi, Amply, and Sellozo), Payability, and the Brooklyn Rail (a non-profit publication in the art industry).

Justin is the co-founder and CEO of Boostopia, a SaaS platform that allows you to manage your newly work from home customer support team with the worlds first support department operations platform. Previously, he was the CEO of diamond candles, he went to Liberity University.

Co-Founder and CEO, Sarah Tuneberg, founded Geospiza after more than a decade in emergency management and public health in order to transform the way climate risk decisions are made. She leads Geospiza's interdisciplinary team on developing data-driven, evidence-based solutions, models, and processes that reduce risk and enhance resilience.

Bob Moore is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crossbeam, a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable partnerships. He previously co-founded RJMetrics (acquired by Magento) and Stitch Data (acquired by Talend).

Coding since I was a teenager. Had a career in IT before I went to law school, and decided that what I really wanted to be was the CEO of a SaaS company. Series Code is founded upon my passion for coding. Married, two kids, cashed in two WSOP events.

Cody Barbo is an entrepreneur and two-time founder from San Diego, CA. Cody currently serves as Founder/CEO of Trust & Will, a modern estate planning software startup. Cody also serves on the San Diego State University Alumni Board of Advisors as VP of Partnerships. At his last startup, Cody served as Founder/CEO of Industry, a 'LinkedIn' for the service and hospitality industry. Cody is happily married, a dog dad, and a soon-to-be father of a baby girl.

I'm an entrepreneur with over twenty years of business, technology, and management experience having founded and exited several companies in that time including helping to launch film festivals in multiple locations and creating the concept for a Maxim branded hotel in the Caribbean. Form head of data at Movie Pass.

CEO of ShoppinPal. Previously, as a Product Manager and grew $40B payment volume products at eBay/PayPal, 1st non founding engineer at Trustgenix (acquired by HP). Recently featured in Leaders of Tomorrow (India's version of the Shark Tank) and selected twice by Invest Stockholm as one of the most promising ventures identified to expand business in Sweden. Passionate about helping SMEs, creating top notch enterprise software from the ground up, identifying raw talent and creating the right opportunities for the team to grow into world class engineers, and contributing to the growth of the startup ecosystem, especially in India. UC Berkeley MBA, Carnegie Mellon MS.

Phil Strazzulla is a finance nerd turned entrepreneur. Phil started investing in the stock market when he was 12, but set his sights on starting a company after an internship at a two person company during college. After graduating from NYU, Phil began his career working in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School. He's a self taught programmer who has started two bootstrapped technology companies. He now spends most of his time working on SelectSoftware, a site dedicated to providing in depth and unbiased reviews of business software. Outside of work, Phil is working on his yoga poses, meditation practice, sous vide skills, and golf swing. When not enjoying the many benefits of working from home, you can find him traveling around the world to escape his arch nemesis, the dreaded Boston weather.

Rosterfy is widely regarded as the most comprehensive volunteer management solution in the market, providing end to end technology for workforce programs throughout the world. Our scalable technology streamlines the previously manual process of workforce management for organisations all shapes and sizes from the Super Bowl to tin rattlers for local charities. As a business our mission is connecting communities to events and causes they are passionate about.