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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
224696 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And most folks, Ben, in 2025 doing a Series A were selling between, call it, maybe like 13% and 18% of their business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Were you sort of in that same range with the $8 million Series A?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Yeah, fair enough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

How do you, as an ex-hedge fund guy, I mean, whenever I think about this, I always think about bits and atoms, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You're building bits and atoms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Your business is both of these things, but you have the unique intel to see which courts are making the most revenue per hour or per day or whatever per court time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

If you had a bunch of money, unlimited money, I mean, wouldn't you go roll up the best performing physical courts around the world?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So, I mean, it's an interesting question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I think you're going to see a lot of software companies today realize that they can't compete with AI unless they sit on some kind of memory about their customers that the general AI foundational models don't have access to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

You have access to court and revenue and sales data that ChatGPT, Gemini, the other labs don't have access to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

The question becomes if your software is an emote anymore because anyone can build software and actually the memory you have on your customers is the asset.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

What do you do to help drive that asset?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Obviously, selling them software is good, but what about lending them money based off predicting their 2026 court revenue?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

And if you maybe if you lend them money, maybe they want to sell one day because the family wants to get out of the court business, then you could buy it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

Then you're doing like sort of atoms and bits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

So I don't know where it's going to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I just think the future is a lot of vertical SaaS companies sitting on unique data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

We're going to see very interesting allocation of capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

No, I think I think no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

I think the answer is no.