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Nathan Latka
What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.
FeedSauce Helps Brands Get Top Notch Product Shots, Influencer Style
Founded Feedsauce in 2018 after running an agency to $600k ARR with 9 person team and then noticing that all our clients were always interested in content more than anything. We accidentally had built a 'speedy system' for creating product photos in our agency and used this model to pivot to Feedsauce and provide custom product photos for brands in 72 hours. Now we're building a marketplace to open the platform to all creators around the world.
23:0314/11/2020
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel
Daniel is the co-founder of img.ly, where he strives to build platforms to make design more accessible for everyone. After graduating with a PhDs in electrical engineering in 2015, he held a few interim CTO positions in the local startup community. In 2017 he co-founded img.ly with Eray Basar.
19:3813/11/2020
MyWifiNetworks Turned Down $5.4m All Cash Offer Last Month, Despite Loosing 30% Due to COVID
Kevin Zicherman helps digital agencies and MSPs innovate to increase profitability by reselling guest WiFi marketing solutions. Kevin is the CEO of MyWiFi Networks, the leading white-label WiFi platform with social data capture, visitor metrics and marketing automation.
22:3312/11/2020
GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
Scot is a 4-time entrepreneur based out of the Research Triangle Park region. Before Spiffy, he started ChannelAdvisor in 2001 and took it public in 2013. Now he's exploring the intersection of digital services and car care.
28:3511/11/2020
Hopin Raises $175m at $2b Valuation, $20m in ARR (Flashback 6 months)
23:2010/11/2020
SafetyEvolution Smartly Uses Setup Fees For Instant CAC Recovery
Started in my first company at 22. Serial Entrepreneur with a passion for people and businesses. Started working in Occupational Health and Safety in 2012 and decided I needed to go back to school to learn more about business. Started Safety Evolution in 2016, graduated my MBA in 2017.
14:3910/11/2020
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space
Life long learner who is looking to add value to every relationship I build. Co-founded fullcast.io with Bala in 2017 to transform how Go to market Operations are done based on prior experience scaling ops at Salesforce and Microsoft.
17:3609/11/2020
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions
I started MySwimPro when I was 23, and since then it has grown to over 1 Million downloads, named App of the Year by Apple and the business has grown to 7-figures in revenue. We are a 100% remote company distributed across 10 time zones!
19:4408/11/2020
York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale
Kyle York is co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE where he sets the company’s vision of building a hybrid strategic advisory, investment and operational growth firm. Kyle works closely with entrepreneurs and investors to help them realize their shared ambition to build good companies, create new jobs, grow generational wealth and impact the world. Investing in over 75 startups over the past decade, Kyle is also a co-founder and board member for 3rd generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG., an ecommerce footwear brand in Boston, and is a board member for Canvs, Assent Compliance, CloudApp and Forcivity.
19:5807/11/2020
Limble is Maintenance Automation Software, hits $2m Revenue, Bootstrapped Using 5% Debt
I am a full stack developer with a passion for entrepreneurship. I am a father of 3 little boys ages 6, 4, and 4 and married to my lovely wife Yvette. When not working I love reading about various topics, but have a passion for everything Sci-fi/Fantasy.
20:2806/11/2020
CookieInformation Hits $2m Bootstrapped For Easy GDPR Copmliance
WE ARE A PRIVACY TECH COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING CONSENT SOLUTIONS. WE HELP YOUR WEBSITE COMPLY WITH CURRENT PRIVACY REGULATIONS AND FRAMEWORKS.
18:0005/11/2020
Penji Hits $4m Revenue Helping 1000 Customers With Unlimited Design Work
Johnathan Grzybowski, is the co-founder of Penji. A platform that gives you on-demand access to the top two percent of designers in the world. You can submit as many projects as you want, get your completed designs back in under 48 hours and only pay a flat monthly rate. His personal mission is to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs to challenge simple minded patterns that help elevate, execute, and produce more revenue for their business.
34:0404/11/2020
Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
In 2018 I joined forces with Professor Ole Winther from DTU and founded raffle.ai. raffle deploys intelligent search tools for Customer Service, that gives instant, correct answers to your customers and employees, while picking up great insights on customer needs and employee satisfaction. raffle reduces calls, live chats and emails by 24% and unlocks a constant re-learning circle. At the same time employees save 80% of their internal search time and get up to speed with new knowledge quickly. raffle.ai has raised €3,5 mill within the first 24 months (by August 1, 2020) and aims for a Series A round late 2021.
18:2003/11/2020
Reamaze Breaks $3m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands with HelpDesk Tool
Serial SaaS Entrepreneur with experience in helping small businesses.
21:4402/11/2020
Cylynt Security SaaS To Break $10m Up From $6m Last Year, Bootstrapped
Ted is a co-founder and CEO of Cylynt, a cyber-security firm that provides SaaS based anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization technology for the world’s leading software companies. Prior to Cylynt, Ted was a co-founder of the EDA company AWR Corporation, which was acquired by National Instruments in 2011. AWR, a leading high-frequency analog design company, has played an important role in the design of semiconductors used in wireless applications.
25:3901/11/2020
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped
Amir Salihefendić has viewed life differently ever since his family fled war-torn Bosnia for Denmark and he began to see the world becoming borderless. That worldview influences his mission to shape the future of work as Founder and CEO of Doist, a fully distributed, bootstrapped company that creates productivity tools used by over 25 million people globally.
26:2131/10/2020
Supermetrics $40m Raise Included Secondary at $200m+ Valuation
Supermetrics founder & CEO
22:1330/10/2020
Flowster Hits $10k MRR After eCommerce Brand Hits $3.1m In Amazon Sales
Trent Dyrsmid is a serial entrepreneur, husband, and father. In addition to hosting the Bright Ideas eCommerce podcast, he is the Founder of Flowster.app; a business workflow management application used by thousands of eCommerce businesses around the globe. In 2019, his eCommerce business ranked 254th on the Inc 5000.
26:0129/10/2020
Appify Recruits Powerhouse CEO, Hits 45 Customers for No Code App Building Platform
Jen Grant has a passion for building companies from the ground-up and taking multiple companies to over a billion dollar valuation. She has been involved with companies such as Google and box. She lead the Google Apps EDU, Gmail, and Book Search marketing teams. She received Google's most prestigious award for her marketing leadership.
17:4828/10/2020
ClearView Is HootSuite for Lawyers, Hits $2.3m Revenue, Would Look at Exiting for $6m
Adrian Dayton is an internationally recognized speaker on social media and business development. At the end of 2013, Adrian launched ClearView Social, a saas software business. ClearView Social makes it easy to get professionals sharing to social media, and is currently in use by over 50,000 professionals worldwide.
19:1427/10/2020
BillBee Dominated 1 Niche of DIYers, Bootstrapped, $2 Million Revenue
While always "making money online" since school, David started his professional career as a cooperative student at former 120k people HP with stops in Europe and California. Later on, he started as employee no 1 and took over the growth part to further bootstrap Billbee to a 7-(and more)-figure SaaS, now working as the MD for revenue and operations.
12:1326/10/2020
Ninety.io Used Community to Hit $2.8m Run Rate, Bootstrapped
Entrepreneur, CEO and coach with decades of experience across startups, early-stage, small and mid-size companies. Track record includes generating over $1 billion in gains for his investors. Dual passion is not just teaching visionary leadership teams how to build extraordinarily productive, humane and resilient companies but building every one of the cloud based tools needed to make the associated journey almost easy.
17:5625/10/2020
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million
Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, I've been creating my own ventures over the last 13 years. At the age of 20 I founded a retail company and raised up to 100 employees and 14 stores across Spain. Later I co-founded Holded, a Business Operating System for small businesses to manage Sales, Finances, Operations & HR in one single beautiful platform.
20:1624/10/2020
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
50:0223/10/2020
Nailted HR Tool Hits 4,000 Paid Seats, $122k ARR
Guiding companies to improve their culture @_nailted
15:4722/10/2020
SanityDesk Gets Money From Founderpath, Hits $180k revenue Helping Digital Brands Scale
Samuel P.N. Cook is a former U.S. Army Officer and Russian History Teacher who founded SanityDesk to help experts, authors, and coaches to build their entire business online. He lives in Kiev, Ukraine with his tech team based in Poland and Ukraine.
18:1421/10/2020
Unstack CMS All In One Hits $10k MRR, Adding $2500/mo, 16k Uniques from ProductHunt Launch
Grant is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder/CEO of Unstack, the no-code content management platform designed for marketers to to build and scale digital businesses without developers. Prior to Unstack Grant was a Co-Founder and CPO/CEO of Grapevine, an influencer marketplace with 200,000+ creators which was acquired in 2018.
18:2420/10/2020
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped
Don has pioneered the use of customer engagement to drive revenue for global brands for 3 decades. First in building inside sales operations, then leading in the use of live sales chat, and now he’s pioneering AI to score website visitors conversion potential to trigger optimal customer engagement.
17:3219/10/2020
Synapse Breaking $1m Revenue, Using $500k Debt To Scale Productivity Tool
Ryan Austin is an entrepreneur who has spent over 10 years driving improvements in learning and development. In his current role as CEO at Synapse, Ryan is focused on developing innovative products to help learning teams increase productivity and create impactful training at scale. Prior to Synapse, Ryan served as Senior Vice President for World Trade Group, an organization that offers live events, online products, and training courses.
20:4218/10/2020
UBIweb Makes $1.7m/year Helping Plumbers Launch Websites
Co-Founder of Ubiweb, 15+ years sales experience (15 in online marketing) - developed a turn-key all-in-one solution for SMBs for their online marketing - primarily targeting Canada currently. Started out of my basement with one partner and boostrapped our way (so far) to over 700+ clients and over 20+ colleagues
24:1517/10/2020
SpotMe Using COVID For $22m SaaS Event Platform Pivot, 300 Customers Paying!
Pierre joined SpotMe in 2001 as a software engineer. In 2004, after a research position on distributed algorithms at NTT Japan, he returned to SpotMe and led the pivot from proprietary hardware to SaaS, with SpotMe becoming the leading pure play event engagement platform. Pierre is a graduate from INSEAD and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
19:2516/10/2020
Genially Breaks $3.6m ARR, About to Raise $10m, Competing with Canva
In Genially we provide a tool to create interactive communication experiences and more engaging content for more than 2 million users worldwide. I participate in tasks such as the business development strategy, funding processes, public relationships, etc.
21:1515/10/2020
Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
23:2014/10/2020
Kontentino Social Media Management Tool Breaks $1.5m ARR, $20k/mo Profits
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. 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 is in the Forbes 30 under 30 list and became Founder of a year in Slovakia (2019).
14:5113/10/2020
Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
Designer with 10+ years of experience and founder of Trakto.io, a design software for non-designers with hundreds of clients all over the world.
18:4012/10/2020
NthRound Hits $300k ARR Creating Liquidity for Employee Option Grants
As co-founder and CEO of Nth Round, Graham runs all aspects of Nth Round operations: from product development, to sales and marketing, to customer support. Before starting the company, Graham started in product design and development at Relay Network, after which he joined the quantitative investment firm AJO Partners.
18:3011/10/2020
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech
17:4010/10/2020
GreenPal Processes $60m in Lawn Cutting Annually takes 5%, SaaS Next?
Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 100,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.
22:4709/10/2020
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats
Zeb Evans is a serial entrepreneur that's started several software companies with over $100 million in revenue. Currently, he's founder and CEO at ClickUp, a productivity platform where people plan their work.
20:4208/10/2020
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
30:3407/10/2020
Richter Hits $4.5m Fine Tuning Sales Process For F500 Brands
I’m the founder and CEO of Richter and companies. Started the company (bootstrapped) in 2008 at the beginning of the economic collapse. Currently own 6 companies. We’ve made the Inc 5000 list 5 consecutive years. Today, we work with many of the largest B2B companies in the world.
25:5706/10/2020
HumanProofDesigns Hit $2m Revenue Selling Starter Sites to New Entrepreneurs
21:5205/10/2020
SandHill Dev Sells $55k/mo Side Project for $1m+, Now Building 4 Other Products $3.6m Run Rate
My name is Pippin Williamson. I am a nature loving farm boy that somehow found his way into computers, Internet, and business. I run a company called Sandhills Development, LLC. We build eCommerce and membership software for websites.
27:0704/10/2020
QuickOrder Hits $4m In Under 18 Months Helping Restaurants Survive Pandemic
Mads Wedderkopp 24 year old CEO & founder of QuickOrder. Been leasing since the age of 17 where he lead a sales team of 8 people, at 18 he was in charge of 120 people. Founded QuickOrder age 18, and has since grown the Company from 5 co-founders to 40+ employees.
17:4203/10/2020
SendLane Hits $5m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands Do Email Marketing
Digital marketer turned tech founder, built a platform in 2013 to solve his own problems, which eventually turned into a business in 2015. Lives in Sunny San Diego, CA.
25:4702/10/2020
Flippa Gave Me $1.1m Valuation Based off $600m in Deal History Over 10 Years
24:5301/10/2020
PlusThis Does $85k in Profit Every Month Selling Marketing Tools to 3,000 SMB's
16:0830/09/2020
OnFleet Flirting With $10m ARR Processing 3m Deliveries Per Month for 900 Customers
Khaled Naim is Co-Founder & CEO of Onfleet, the world’s fastest growing provider of last mile delivery management software. Since its launch in 2015, Onfleet has grown to power millions of deliveries per month for thousands of businesses around the world. Clients include Gap, Total Wine & More, Capsule, Imperfect Foods, and United Supermarkets. Onfleet handles route optimization, dispatching, real-time driver tracking, proof of delivery, analytics and customer communications. Onfleet was ranked #124 on the Inc 5000 list of America’s fastest growing companies in 2019 and #13 in San Francisco Business Times’ Fast100 list of the Bay Area’s 100 fastest growing companies. Khaled is a mentor at Startupbootcamp and Syria Digital Lab. He is based in San Francisco.
20:3429/09/2020
Lemlist Gives Employees This Bonus When 5x Revenue Growth Target Hit
Guillaume is the Co-founder and CEO of lemlist, a platform that helps sales teams book more meetings and close more deals with their prospect. In less than two and a half years he and his team grew lemlist from 0 to 8000+ customers worldwide (more than $2,000,000 ARR) without any fundings. He is also the founder of the sales automation family, the coolest and biggest facebook community about sales automation!
27:2928/09/2020
Wemby Hits $100k Revenue Giving Your Team Therapy Sessions
Alberto Fantappie is the Founder and CEO of Wemby and has more than 10 years experience in the tech sector. Before founding Wemby he was at the International Committee of the Red Cross, in charge of HR and finance for multiple offices for 2 years, notably in Afghanistan and South Sudan. Previous to that, he led the South Europe marketing team at Zalando, managing a budget in excess of €70M. Before that, he bootstrapped a short-term property rentals app, reaching €60K in revenues in the first 10 months of operations, he also held roles in management consulting, investment bank and was an intern at Google. He holds Maters in Management from City University in London and the ESCP business school, and has a BA in Politics and human rights.
17:1527/09/2020