SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Episodes
LetsChat Helping Outbound Sales Initiate Chat with Prospects Starting with Email
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ankesh, was born in India, educated in London, based in Silicon Valley. ATSystems, 0-$22m in 4 years. Sold to TMP/Monster. Personic, 0- $25m in 4 year...
Perx Hits $27m Valuation
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"I've had the privilege of experiencing the best of both worlds, 5 startups and 3 MNCs in the last 20 years in the enterprise software space solving m...
ToucanToco Raising Right Now $10m on $50m+ Pre with $5m in Revenue
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm passionate about data, design and pedagogy. I started Toucan 5 years ago, Previously I cofounded tldr.io. I'm 32 years old and father of three.
Front End As a Service, I Predict They'll Be $100m Within 3 Years
28 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Hager began writing code at the age of 8. At 20 he started Poetic, one of Houston's leading technology agencies. Now, as CEO of Clutch, he is ...
Can Consumer App For Authenticated Videos Tied to Location Work in 2020?
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Arison is the co-founder of Shift, an online marketplace disrupting the used car industry. An immigrant from Georgia and lifelong entrepreneur,...
Tootris Launches Daycare as a Service, 100 Customers
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
TOOTRiS is service provider that helps working parents' access and secure affordable, quality Child Care in real-time. TOOTRiS is available online or ...
GreySuit Hits $4m Revenue Helping 700 Furniture Brands Manage Meta-Data
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rafferty Pendery is an International Public Speaker and Tech Entrepreneur who owns several successful companies in the software and marketing space se...
$0 to $12m: The most successful SaaS Paid Ads Story of All Time?
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2009, Paris has founded and run Hop Online, which has pivoted in recent years to focus entirely on SaaS growth marketing. Services include SEO, ...
CoachMePlus raising $2m on $10m post money right now
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Dawidowicz is the President and co-founder of CoachMePlus, built around a simple idea, helping coaches and athletes work together to achieve the...
Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The former head of IBM Canada's data mining and data warehousing practices, Gary is passionate about AI and its ability to transform how retailers gro...
SalesProcess Did $1m Last Month Helping Brands Drive Sales, 40% Net Profit
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Highly influential, passionate executive Director and Co-Investor for high growing SaaS and Private Equity / Private Debt ecosystem. Invested in Fluid...
InboxDone VC's Are Using This Company To Handle Their Inboxes
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Almabase Hits $1.1m Revenue Helping Universities Manage Alumni Donations
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I strongly believe that technology should work towards improving human relationships instead of replacing them. The ability to bring communities toget...
Fairmeadow Did 1500 Bins of Laundry Last Month, $240k in Revenue, 300 Customers
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kiss dirty laundry goodbye and reclaim your free time by letting us handle the chore of washing and folding your laundry. We don't have per pound fees...
Trustisto Hits $60k Revenue Helping Ecommerce Brands Increase Cart Conversion Rate
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ex Samsung R&D Developer and Team Manager. Almost Googler but reject the offer in the very last moment. Start my first start-up in 2012, still operati...
TeamSnap Cut 50% Workforce, Hiring Back Now As COVID Recovery Builds
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As co-founder and CEO of TeamSnap, the household name in integrated sports management, Dave wears many hats – from being the boss to sweeping the fl...
FeedSauce Helps Brands Get Top Notch Product Shots, Influencer Style
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...
Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
MyWifiNetworks Turned Down $5.4m All Cash Offer Last Month, Despite Loosing 30% Due to COVID
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Zicherman helps digital agencies and MSPs innovate to increase profitability by reselling guest WiFi marketing solutions. Kevin is the CEO of My...
GetSpiffy Hits $20m Run Rate Cleaning 30,000 Cars Per Month, Oil Changes and More Next!
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 2...
Hopin Raises $175m at $2b Valuation, $20m in ARR (Flashback 6 months)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SafetyEvolution Smartly Uses Setup Fees For Instant CAC Recovery
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Started in my first company at 22. Serial Entrepreneur with a passion for people and businesses. Started working in Occupational Health and Safety in ...
FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Op...
MySwimPro Hit 15k Customers, $1m in ARR Selling Swim Instructions
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
Limble is Maintenance Automation Software, hits $2m Revenue, Bootstrapped Using 5% Debt
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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....
CookieInformation Hits $2m Bootstrapped For Easy GDPR Copmliance
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WE ARE A PRIVACY TECH COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING CONSENT SOLUTIONS. WE HELP YOUR WEBSITE COMPLY WITH CURRENT PRIVACY REGULATIONS AND FRAMEWORKS...
Penji Hits $4m Revenue Helping 1000 Customers With Unlimited Design Work
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018 I joined forces with Professor Ole Winther from DTU and founded raffle.ai. raffle deploys intelligent search tools for Customer Service, that ...
Reamaze Breaks $3m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands with HelpDesk Tool
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Serial SaaS Entrepreneur with experience in helping small businesses.
Cylynt Security SaaS To Break $10m Up From $6m Last Year, Bootstrapped
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ted is a co-founder and CEO of Cylynt, a cyber-security firm that provides SaaS based anti-piracy, license compliance and software monetization techno...
Todoist Productivity Tool Hits $14m Revenue, Bootstrapped
31 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amir Salihefendić has viewed life differently ever since his family fled war-torn Bosnia for Denmark and he began to see the world becoming borderles...
Supermetrics $40m Raise Included Secondary at $200m+ Valuation
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Supermetrics founder & CEO
Flowster Hits $10k MRR After eCommerce Brand Hits $3.1m In Amazon Sales
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trent Dyrsmid is a serial entrepreneur, husband, and father. In addition to hosting the Bright Ideas eCommerce podcast, he is the Founder of Flowster....
Appify Recruits Powerhouse CEO, Hits 45 Customers for No Code App Building Platform
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 invol...
ClearView Is HootSuite for Lawyers, Hits $2.3m Revenue, Would Look at Exiting for $6m
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Dayton is an internationally recognized speaker on social media and business development. At the end of 2013, Adrian launched ClearView Social,...
BillBee Dominated 1 Niche of DIYers, Bootstrapped, $2 Million Revenue
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While always "making money online" since school, David started his professional career as a cooperative student at former 120k people HP with stops i...
Ninety.io Used Community to Hit $2.8m Run Rate, Bootstrapped
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneur, CEO and coach with decades of experience across startups, early-stage, small and mid-size companies. Track record includes generating ov...
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million
24 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nailted HR Tool Hits 4,000 Paid Seats, $122k ARR
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Guiding companies to improve their culture @_nailted
SanityDesk Gets Money From Founderpath, Hits $180k revenue Helping Digital Brands Scale
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Unstack CMS All In One Hits $10k MRR, Adding $2500/mo, 16k Uniques from ProductHunt Launch
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 di...
Lift-Ai Spins Out of $10m Agency, Goes $0 to $1m Run Rate in 4 Months Bootstrapped
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Don has pioneered the use of customer engagement to drive revenue for global brands for 3 decades. First in building inside sales operations, then lea...
Synapse Breaking $1m Revenue, Using $500k Debt To Scale Productivity Tool
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, Ry...
UBIweb Makes $1.7m/year Helping Plumbers Launch Websites
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 marketi...
SpotMe Using COVID For $22m SaaS Event Platform Pivot, 300 Customers Paying!
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Genially Breaks $3.6m ARR, About to Raise $10m, Competing with Canva
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Genially we provide a tool to create interactive communication experiences and more engaging content for more than 2 million users worldwide. I par...
Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kontentino Social Media Management Tool Breaks $1.5m ARR, $20k/mo Profits
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bohumil studied Innovation Management and Marketing in Denmark and in the USA. After his studies, he was invited to launch a social media tool develop...
Trakto Hits $30k MRR With Canva Competitor. Can They Hit $1m ARR?
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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.
NthRound Hits $300k ARR Creating Liquidity for Employee Option Grants
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 sup...
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech
10 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
GreenPal Processes $60m in Lawn Cutting Annually takes 5%, SaaS Next?
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been ca...
Clickup Close To $34m in Revenue, Competing in Project Management Space with 300,000 Paid Seats
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cli...
ZenBusiness Breaks 70k Side Hustle Customers, "Easy path" to $30m ARR Next 12 Months
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Richter Hits $4.5m Fine Tuning Sales Process For F500 Brands
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
HumanProofDesigns Hit $2m Revenue Selling Starter Sites to New Entrepreneurs
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SandHill Dev Sells $55k/mo Side Project for $1m+, Now Building 4 Other Products $3.6m Run Rate
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 calle...
QuickOrder Hits $4m In Under 18 Months Helping Restaurants Survive Pandemic
03 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 char...
SendLane Hits $5m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands Do Email Marketing
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Su...
Flippa Gave Me $1.1m Valuation Based off $600m in Deal History Over 10 Years
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PlusThis Does $85k in Profit Every Month Selling Marketing Tools to 3,000 SMB's
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
OnFleet Flirting With $10m ARR Processing 3m Deliveries Per Month for 900 Customers
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Lemlist Gives Employees This Bonus When 5x Revenue Growth Target Hit
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Wemby Hits $100k Revenue Giving Your Team Therapy Sessions
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Intern...
MyCroft Raises $5m to Ship Home Speaker Echo Competitor That Doesnt' Suck In Data
26 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Lewis is the founder of Stellar Semiconductor which was sold to Broadcom in 2000, then went on to found Cryptic Studios which was sold to Atar...
ChoreRelief Does $2m in Toilet Fixes Over Last 12 Months
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm a Chicago-based entrepreneur, and my love for connecting people and solving problems led me to found ChoreRelief, a marketplace that transforms th...
Checkli Launches Enterprise Plan To Get Past $5k in MRR
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2x founder with 2 successful exits. Head of Growth for SureSwift Capital. Moonlighting as the CEO of Checkli at night.
Doka Image Editor SDK Sells $120k Licenses
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Indie product developer living on a 2D plane people call The Netherlands. Dad of two. On a journey to support my family by building and selling highl...
FlyPlugins Hits $500k/yr For Wordpress Addons
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I worked in I.T. for 12 years before I got the entrepreneurial bug and jumped ship to run my WordPress plugin business full time. I'm happily married...
StockAlarm Secretly Used By Traders For Alerts
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stock Alarm was born out of our need for reliable stock alerts. Stock Alarm provides stock market alerts to thousands of traders every day through pho...
XFusion Hits $20k/mo Helping You Scale Your Support Team
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jim and I decided to start a technical support agency after we realized how difficult it was to find & hire competent agents for our own businesses. O...
Castos Helps Podcasters Distribute Content, $480k in ARR
19 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Am the founder of Castos. We are a fully remote team remaking how podcasters create great shows, grow their audiences, and further their brands.
AdGreetz Hits $5.5m in Revenue Customizing Outbound Marketing For Enterprises
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Frankel is the CEO/Founder of AdGreetz, the industry's leading video personalization tech platform that is disrupting the $628b advertising marke...
Obie Growing on Slack marketplace, $25k MRR, Helps Teams Store Information Efficiently
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Buttenham is the founder and CEO of Obie, a company changing the way organizations access and manage their collective knowledge. Chris got into...
Prentus Founder Spent $90k on Failed Project Before Launching New Recruiting Tool During COVID
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rod is Founder & CEO at Prentus where he matches startups with job-ready tech interns in as little as 7 days and runs a community with 165+ bootcamp g...
VidLive.co Doubles from Covid, Livestreaming Tool, 1 man team
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn North, founder and creator of VidLive, a mico-saas that helps people auto-embed Facebook Live video on their web pages. In addition to working o...
RiteKit 431k Email List, Conversions Tough?
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We started with RiteTag: hashtags from text and from images, and the first such tool that rides in any social media marketer's workflow by browser ext...
NightEye App Lands 2500 Customers Using Unique SEO Fiverr Writing Stratetgy
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My name is Stanislav Dimitrov (Stan), and I'm one of the founders of Night Eye — the dark mode browser extension that works on nearly any website. ...
VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Santalo is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur experienced in building high growth, venture-backed technology companies. He is the f...
Trend.io Does $60k/mo Helping Brands Find MicroInfluencers
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CEO and cofounder of trend.io born and raised in Puerto Rico living in Denver, CO.
Jiga3d Connects Engineers to Manufacturers, 30 Transactions at $2k each so Far
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Software engineer by trade, designer by heart and entrepreneur in soul. Founded and bootstrapped Spontix until it's M&A, and served as a software R&D ...
KoalaRank Content Marketing System Has 5 Customers Paying $900/mo
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coming from the world of content writing, I've had many opportunities to write for interesting companies who didn't know how to strategize their conte...
Edusign Launches During COVID, Hits $10k MRR, 300 Customers for Signing Tool
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Boucher is the co-founder of Edusign, a SaaS that makes attendance sheets management simple online and offine. He is also the founder of Ecomme...
Visably Helps You Manage Search Exposure, $700k Raised, Pre-Revenue, Launch Soon
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As an owner and principal of a PR agency for over a decade, Chris has thoroughly explored the intersection of PR and search engine strategy. Chris' ne...
RockContent 2x To $25m in Last 12 Months, Helping 2000 Customers Scale Content
05 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Gomes is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Rock Content a SaaS Blogger/Researcher/Evangelist. Rock is the among the fastest-growi...
JazzHR Has Record 40k Applicant Month During Pandemic, $15m Revenue
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business m...
Madwire Hits 20k Customers, $120m Revenue, and Profitable Serving SMB's. IPO next?
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Madwire® is a technology company that provides business management and marketing software and services for SMBs and franchises. Madwire® was founde...
Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sabba Keynejad is the co-founder and CEO of VEED an [online video editing](http://veed.io/) platform. Together with his co-founder Tim, they bootstra...
Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amit Bendov is the co-founder and CEO of Gong.io, the # 1 Revenue Intelligence platform for sales. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experie...
NoCSDegree used HackerNews and ProductHunt to Get 4500 Subs, $15k in Revenue
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm a self-taught developer and entrepreneur from Scotland. I launched No CS Degree a year ago to inspire people to learn coding. It features 90 inte...
Directual Used $1k/mo Russian Talent to Build Low Code Tool MVP, Now 50 Customers, $1m Raised
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pavel is a serial entrepreneur from Moscow, Russia. Launched e-commerce projects, lifestyle app. Founded Directual in 2014, when there was no such ter...
Ceptinel FinTech Founder Spent $700k, Now Has $6k in MRR, Whats Next?
29 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miguel Fuentes Buchholtz has 12 years of Software Engineering experience and 6 as Entrepreneur, founding Variacode (ITaaS), cofounding tuten.cl (an "u...
Djaodjin Gets Customers from Github, $6k in MRR, Raising $500k on $1m Valuation?
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I started a video game studio, a micro-processor company, and built 2 SaaS businesses before DjaoDjin. If you believe a couple semiconductor patents I...
Wingman Hits $6k MRR, 24 Y.O Uses to Track Option Trades
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben is a personal finance nerd turned software developer. He left his first job out of college after 6 months to launch Wingman, a trade tracker for o...
WebHookRelay DevOps Tool Hits $120k Revenue, 1 person team, bootstrapped
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneur, full-stack engineer with extensive experience in compute infrastructure, networks, Kubernetes and developer tooling. Spent last five yea...
WpBuffs Hits $100k in MRR Supporting Wordpress Sites Using Whitelabel Partners
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fallibilist 💯 Founder & CEO at @thewpbuffs 💪 Co-host at the WPMRR #WordPress podcast 🎙 @Everton TID ⚽