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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223769 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

We had to check last question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Larry, what's the thing you wish you knew when you were 20?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

guys larry king launched mobile monkey in 2018 grew it to a million revenue very quickly in under a year and then sort of flatlined for a year or two got down to a couple hundred thousand cash in the bank and said man do i invest money from my last 200 million dollar exit into this thing or do i let the market reprice it what he decided to do instead was go use non-dilutive capital from founder path raised a couple hundred grand from us and then eventually said he got out of this

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

did a series A and is now over 2 million in ARR for customers.ai, which he's uniquely built a language learning model powered by the early data he captured off mobile monkey folks, which now enables folks to basically install customers.ai and understand when somebody hits their website, what is their email, even if they don't sign up, so then go market to those users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

He's grown fast now, several customers over a hundred grand per year, having a lot of fun doing it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

You can tell from the smile on his face.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
His First Exit Was for $200m, His Next Startup Hit $1m Then Almost Failed, Now 100% YoY Growth at Customer.ai with unique LLM model

Larry, thanks for taking us to the top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

You are listening to Conversations with Nathan Latka, where I sit down and interview the top SaaS founders, like Eric Wan from Zoom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

If you'd like to subscribe, go to getlatka.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

We've published thousands of these interviews, and if you want to sort through them quickly by revenue or churn, CAC, valuation, or other metrics, the easiest way to do that is to go to getlatka.com and use our filtering tool.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

It's like a big Excel sheet for all of these podcast interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

Check it out right now at getlatka.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

Out of school, he launched a consulting company called Besolve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

He's grown that to $800,000 in revenue last year and said, you know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

We want to build software to help our consulting clients do work better in the Microsoft ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

Him and his partner have invested $150,000 from their agency into this new SaaS tool, which you can find at SP Robot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

SP Robot is the name of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

Hoping to launch here in the next, call it three weeks, three months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

We'll see what happens.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Finally! How to move from consultant to SaaS CEO (from a consultant who did $800k revenue last year)

Hey folks, my guest today is Martin Hatting.