SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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.

Business strategy and execution professional with 15+ years experience of delivering high growth projects for SMBs and large enterprises -MBA INSEAD - MS Virginia Tech - B.Tech, Delhi College of Engineering - IFC (World Bank Group), IL&FS, Carollo Engineers

15 years of startup experience as founder/CEO/CTO. Founder & CEO ProLeads, acquired by OutboundWorks in a seven figures cash deal plus stock. 500 Startups and The Alchemist Accelerator alumni & mentor. CTO at Arrivalguides.com (acquired by Lonely Planet). Founder & CEO Tablefinder (acquired by Visit). DJ as @desertpillar

Mela.Work is an app that simplifies management of field construction teams both online and offline. Founder Francesco Putignano lived in 7 countries and speaks 5 languages. He became a nuclear engineer before getting an MBA and working at a fast growing ticketing marketplace. Founded Mela Works with two of his best friends, with the objective of changing the way work is executed in heavy industry.

BLUErabbit is a gamified engagement platform originally designed for the improvement of classroom environments but has now evolved to generate engagement in any space that requires interaction between players and organizers We received the Outstanding Gamification Software award in Nov 2017 from Gamification Europe and went from 25k gross profit to 150k in one year.

This man has a method that can create bootstrapped profitable SaaS products from scratch. He was Fired from Ernst & Young. Failed at 11 businesses. Figured out what worked. Taught the patterns. Helped create 15 millionaires. Loves building SaaS products. Loves to sing and released his third musical album last year.

Always curious to learn new things, share them with my wife and two boys, customers and business partners. Hooked with so many hobbies that 48h per day wouldn't be enough so need to limit it to a few top ones including golf, ice hockey, fishing and every now and then to other ball games.

Russ Perry is the Founder and CEO of Design Pickle, the world's most successful flat-rate creative service. Russ leads a global team as they rethink and deliver a remarkable new way to find the perfect creative.

Ashely Rose is the CEO of Living Security, where she helps companies reduce risk by making security awareness engaging and quantifiable. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

His name is Bill Bice, serial entrepreneur since age 14. He is passionate about enabling smaller businesses to more successfully compete with their larger competitors through effective marketing. Through the years, Bill has built and invested in over 25 companies but kept finding the same flaws in marketing strategies so, a programmer at heart, he founded Boomtime, a company that tackles marketing as a technology problem If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

Shibo Xu is the co-founder of Refersion and grew the company from the two co-founders to a leading SaaS platform serving over 7000 merchants across two offices. Before Refersion, Shibo was a technology consultant partnering with Fortune 500 enterprises to concept and build digital products. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

Ryan Kulp is a marketer and self-taught developer, best known as founder of Fomo.com. He and his wife buy and grow small companies together at their Micro PE fund, Fork Equity (forkequity.com). Ryan has been traveling full-time for 2 years and writes a data-driven travel blog at rickshawlabs.com. On this episode we discuss how he finds companies to buy, why he's ok not getting huge, and how he ensures profitability. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests. For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

Dan Uyemura is the CEO of PushPress.com, a tool that helps boutique gyms grow. Dan shares why he took a $500k loan from the SBA to start the company. Why why he spent $100k in 2010 to open his own gym. How he grew to $1.6m in revenue run rate, up 63% from 2019. If you enjoy todays content, please leave a review. It helps me get hard-to-reach guests! To get more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE and visit GetLatka.com

RunBolt founder Sam Knight joins me today and talks about he he spun a construction scheduling tool out of it's parent company. We talk about cap table structure, his first sales hire and setting $30,000 quota. How does Sam get 50% of new customers to pay annually up front? How'd he get his first 50 customers? What's his plan to reduce churn? We discuss each of these items. To get more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE and visit GetLatka.com

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Matt Dion CEO of Mintent, is a technology industry veteran with 24 years of experience ushering early stage companies through the tricky early adopter and early majority market phases.

Internet business executive with over 12 years of experience in managing small to mid-size organizations, product development, business operations, and strategy. Have conceptualized and grown multiple businesses from zero to multi-million dollars in North America and in the Middle East.

Maciej Zawadziński – CEO of Piwik PRO and Clearcode; analytics and advertising technology expert; entrepreneur and startup founder. Maciej is an expert in analytics and advertising technology and founder of several successful companies. He has led Clearcode to its position as a leading software house building custom advertising and marketing technology and in 2013 founded Piwik PRO, a privacy-compliant analytics platform. He advocates for better data privacy rights as a supporting expert at the Panoptykon Foundation.

Andy Fletcher is a serial entrepreneur now working on his 3rd company. He has a background in development and a Masters degree in Computer Science but fell in love with digital marketing about a decade ago. This makes martech SaaS pretty much the perfect place for him to be.

Started career in banking. Now 3x SaaS founder for Beamer, Hibox and Joincube. Love running hyper lean bootstrapped B2B SaaS companies outside of SF. Have been based in Spain and Chile. Moving to Boulder shortly.