SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1056 DataStax CEO: "We're growing 40% yoy with 110% net revenue expansion"

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Billy is responsible for the strategy, growth, and day-to-day operations of DataStax. He has 20 years of experience in the database industry in roles...

1055 Utah CEO: We've Doubled YoY to $10m in ARR

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Nelson is the Founder, and CEO of Grow (grow.com), a cloud-based analytics software company for small-to-medium size businesses. Grow helps compa...

1054 We Cut Our Customer Base In Half But Grew Revenue to $30m

13 Jun 2018

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Raj Co-Founded Localytics in 2009, and as CEO until 2017 created the leading mobile engagement platform that is used by many of the world's top brand...

1053 Me: Did You Sell To Vista for $250m? CEO:"Your math astute"

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As the co-founder & CEO of InfoScout, Jared leads a start-up that is fundamentally changing the way brands understand and engage consumers in the 21s...

1052 You're doing $9m in ARR, why write a book decoding creativity?

11 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

ALLEN GANNETT is the founder and CEO of TrackMaven, a marketing analytics platform whose clients have included Microsoft, Marriott, Saks Fifth Avenue...

1051 CEO: "We Went from $35k in MRR to $350k in 12 months"

10 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Software engineer, VC Associate at OpenView Venture Partners, Director Sales & Marketing at InfiniDB, Co-founder & CEO at MarketMuse

1050 3+ Years to Hit $20k in MRR, Sell and Get Out!

09 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Stefan is the only known startup founder to have been successfully sued by David Hasselhoff. His current company pr.co automates and fixes PR for glo...

1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Campbell is the CEO of ProfitWell, the software for helping subscription companies with their monetization and retention strategies. ProfitWe...

1048 How Zendesk Figures Out Pricing and Product Strategy

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Price is Senior Vice President of Zendesk's Product Portfolio. Prior to this role he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and as Vice Pre...

1047 Rokt CEO: Why We Acquired CalReply for $15m on $1-2m in ARR

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As an early entrepreneur, Bruce founded his first business at age 16. He was a leader in the consumer practice at Boston Consulting Group and then bu...

1046 She Controls WeWork TV Screens, Passes $4.8m ARR

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nanxi, named Forbes 30 Under 30, is founder and CEO of Enplug. She is also founder of Nanoly Bioscience, which develops polymers that eliminate refri...

1045 Tech CEO: I Sold for $20m! Guess what he's doing now...

04 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Formerly CEO & Co-founder of Geekatoo, scaled from idea to 7000 providers nationwide, sold for $20M in 2016. Now CEO & Co-Founder of Bestfoodtrucks.c...

1044 How This Engineer Went From $0 to $44k/mo in Revenue

03 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

1043 HR Tech CEO: I accidently raised $3m!

02 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jobscience is the #1 provider of Staffing and Recruiting Software on the Salesforce platform, with more customers, awards, deployments, users and dev...

1042 "We're selling the company right now" for $10m+

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Lapchick co-founded The Chicago Catalog Group in 1996 which was acquired by Lake Capital/ Haggin Marketing (now Epsilon) in 2006. Encumbered by ...

1041 From Sake to $1m ARR SaaS

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Smookler has founded 6 companies 2 of which have been acquired and 3 of which are market leaders in their respective spaces the leading brick-an...

1040 To Get Rich, Don't Need $1b Exit, She Has 4 Exits Across 10 Companies

30 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Roz Lemieux is the Director of Blackbaud Labs. Blackbaud (BLKB) is the world's leading software company powering social good. Over 18+ years in campai...

1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Tanaka is CEO and Founder of Percolata. Percolata helps retailers optimize their retail sales teams giving retailers up to a 30% sales uplift us...

1038 How Prezly Bootstrapped To $1.6m+ in ARR

28 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Building stuff since i was young. Had 1 'real' job where I was hired as an assistant, built their website, their intranet, their parent company...Sta...

1037 Clate Mask on ICON, Infusionsoft IPO, Exit Strategy

27 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As CEO, Clate is leading Infusionsoft on its mission to simplify growth for millions of small businesses worldwide. Under Clate's leadership, Infusio...

1036 How He Took SMB Churn From 12% Monthly to 4% In Social Media Marketing Space

26 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Emeric started his career in 1996 as a business lawyer in Washington DC. He launched his first startup in France in 2000. After 3 semi-failed Saas pr...

1035 How He Restructured $4.5m Company, Then Exited Jan 1

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bret has over 15 years of experience in affiliate marketing software development and business. He is the CEO of LinkTrust, a recognized leader in the...

1034 How GetResponse Bootstrapped to $50m+ Revenue

24 May 2018

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Simon Grabowski is the CEO and founder of GetResponse. With only $200 in his pocket, Simon created the first version of GetResponse in 1998 to solve ...

1033 Couple Cashes Out 401k in 2010, Now Doing $15m/Year

23 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Miles is CEO & Co-founder of BELAY. Bryan (alongside his wife, Shannon) leads a US-based virtual solutions company that has over 550 people on ...

1032 How Indian RetailTech CEO Is Attacking Market with Tags

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Deboprio Ghosh is a serial entrepreneur and founder at Rewango, an AI and ML based retail analytics and proximity marketing technology. He also was t...

1031 How VWO Bootstrapped to $15m+

21 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Paras Chopra is the Founder & CEO of Wingify, an India based fast-growing software company that makes globally admired technology products like Visua...

1030 Would you sell for $1.5m?

20 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Pushkar is the founder of Aeroleads which is a bootstrap prospect generation software startup with over 20,000+ users. When not working, he likes to ...

1029 The Right Way to 18x Your Price Point With $1.2m MRR Pendo CEO

19 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Todd Olson is CEO and Co-Founder of Pendo, a product experience platform that helps product managers deliver successful products. Before Pendo, Todd ...

1028 Advertisers Put $250m Through Him Last Year As Top Google, Facebook Alternative

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Greenburg is the CEO and co-founder of Sharethrough, a platform which powers in-feed native advertising for many of the world's largest publisher...

1027 Finally a $10m+ PR Company Focused on Analytics!

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Erik is an expert in PR analytics and big data. Before leading TrendKite, he ran Product for Sprinklr after the merger with social analytics firm Dac...

1026 "Juri, would you sell to me now for $1.5m?"

16 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Juri Kaljundi is the CEO & Co-founder of Weekdone, a weekly team check-ins and quarterly OKR goal-setting service, turning any team into superheroes....

1025 Expecting Mom Quits $150k+ Corporate, Launches Soap Line

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

1024 How He Bought Out His VC's, Won His Company Back, Now Doing $24m Annually

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Nigel Shanahan set up Rant & Rave after a poor experience at a motorway service station. He believes that consumer emotions drive their behaviour and...

1023 Will He Win Battle For Bottom of Blog

13 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John Lemp is an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses, and all with $0 in funding...

1022 How This Barcelona Sales Tool Grew 2x YoY, Raised $16m, Charging $200/Seat

12 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar Macia is an experienced, sales-orientated manager and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of ForceManager. ForceManager has transformed ...

1021 How He Solved Translation Marketplace Space and Grew 7x YoY to $24m in Revenue

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Entrepreneur and CEO with more than 10 years of experience in linguistic technologies and services. Now focused on building an operating and payment ...

1020 Urban Outfitters Inventory Management Tool Breaks $6m in ARR

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

John has spent the last two decades helping retailers, distributors, and brands optimize their omni-channel strategies and operations. Prior to Celec...

1019 The Tool Tesla's Data Analysts Use Hits 3,000 Customers

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Parmer is the CEO at ploy.ly

1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Tan is an accomplished entrepreneur and advertising industry technology leader with over 20 years of experience. Kevin is the co-founder and CE...

1017 The New Nielsen? $12m in Revenue Says, Maybe!

07 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Daboll has more than 25 years of experience in the science and business of advertising effectiveness. He has spent his career developing and im...

1016 How He Managed Launching 2 $100m+ Companies At Once

06 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Vijay is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful businesses delivering enterprise-class solutions. Before starting Cygilant,...

1015 How He's Using $10m In AdSpend to Power New SaaS Offering

05 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Treadaway is Founder & CEO of Polygraph Media, a Facebook Marketing Partner in Ad Technology. Chris was previously Group Product Manager of Web...

1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Eric S. Yuan is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Zoom. Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, whe...

1013 Guess How This Data Tool Will Break $100m In 2018

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With over 20 years growing and leading technology companies, Frank Bien built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient t...

1012 SquareSpace CEO Tried Acquiring First, Now King of SMB Data

02 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dane is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on technology, data, and small business. He has been CEO of a dozen companies like SumAll and Squarespace,...

1011 How He Drove $1.4m in ChatBot PreSales

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Travis Stephenson is a software entrepreneur and marketing coach that specializes in all things Facebook and Instagram. Travis has been a soloprenuer...

1010 The Boston Poker Player Turned B2B Advertiser Breaks $10m Revenue Mark

30 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Shea started AdDaptive Intelligence with Co-Founder Kevin O'Malley in 2010 to create technology around gathering and using data to improve ta...

1009 The Argument for Shutting Down and Launching With 100% Control

29 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Kline is the co-founder and COO of Markerly, an influencer marketing company focusing on influencer identification and tracking for some of th...

1008 WePay CEO on $1b+ in Transaction Volume Helping Your Favorite Online Platforms Process Payments

28 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay, where he drives the company's vision, strategy and growth. WePay's payments API is built specifically fo...

1007 How Outbound.io Grew to $30k MRR Before Exiting to ZenDesk

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Josh is founder and director of go-to-market at Outbound, customer communication technology acquired by Zendesk in May 2017. Josh challenges business...

1006 How To Get Rich Bootstrapping to $1m in Revenue

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

NathanLatka.com/Patreon exclusive! Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur with a calling to build enterprise marketing software. He currently is the Co-fou...

1005 How She's Managing 4+ Business Models at Once

25 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Heidi Yu is the founder and CEO of Boostinsider, one of the Silicon Valley's hottest startups that focuses on using advanced technology to help brand...

1004 Can sharing team size hurt your growth?

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mani Iyer is CEO of Kwanzoo, a leading provider of Account-Based (ABM) Advertising and Retargeting solutions for mid-to-large B2B enterprises. Mani p...

1003 With $150m Raised, He's Sold 3m "Weird" Domain Names

23 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

1002 How He Makes $10m+ Speaking Every Language on Earth

22 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Jack is a technology early-adopter, serial entrepreneur, software patent-holder, product evangelist, and combat-decorated Air Force pilot. Before fou...

1001 Why People Pay Him 30% of Spend For His AdTech Platform

21 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"David Benoliel has spent the past 25 years at the intersection of technology and marketing as a software designer, marketer, salesman, project manage...

1000 The Genius in Agency + SaaS Business Model

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Schroeder is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of blueriver and co-founder of the Mura Digital Experience Platform. A former front-end developer...

999 He Bet Big on Salesforce, Now His CMS Does $7.5m

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Doug Girvin is the CEO and Founder of Stantive Technologies Group, whose flagship product, OrchestraCMS is the first and only known Enterprise class ...

998 Influencer Marketing for ICO's Next Big Thing?

18 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

997 AI Company is Real Deal with 4x YoY Revenue Growth to $3m+ in ARR

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Benigson founded Signal Media in 2012 with the belief that artificial intelligence would fundamentally change the way businesses worked. As CEO,...

996 Guess Why This $600m Man Came out of "Martha Vineyard" Retirement

16 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Daniels specializes in launching SaaS companies and rapidly developing the infrastructure and internal sales organizations to drive multi-million...

995 Pakistan King of SaaS

15 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of Cloudlead (formerly EListGuy). I am a motivated, tech savvy and result-driven business leader with a thirst for achieving accelerat...

994 Why Forbes Uses Quizzes Instead of "Opt In Landing Pages"

14 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Home Depot, and F...

993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Beatty serves as the Chairman and CEO of Brandfolder, a digital asset management platform located in Denver. Prior to that, he served as the Pres...

992 Is She Building The New Wordpress for Enterprise?

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Linda Holliday is an entrepreneur who has spent a career at the intersection of media, marketing and tech, building leading-edge strategies, technolo...

991 He's Built 400+ Chatbots Making $800k in The Process

11 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Andrew started a $30M company built on email marketing when email marketing was just getting started. Many know Andrew from his company Mixergy, wher...

990 How Commenting App Disqus Makes $20m+ Annually

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Daniel Ha is the CEO and cofounder of Disqus. Daniel studied computer science engineering at UC Davis and interned at big companies before deciding t...

989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As the Founder of 5 start-ups, John has made more mistakes than most. He's currently the CEO of HireMojo, a SaaS Hiring Automation Platform with a Rec...

988 Livechat on Website Wars

08 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

987 Secret Button Big Brands Push to Launch 40,000 Landing Pages at Once

07 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Expertise and dedication define our company/team. Daniel Rust, a gifted software architect and Mark Michael a bold entrepreneur met in high school. T...

986 The College of The Future Just Hit $10m in ARR

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Beri Meric is the Co-Founder & CEO of IVY, The Social University (IVY.com) which unites rising leaders through a lifetime of learning, growth, and imp...

985 How Expensify Hit $60m+ Magic on Bottom Up Business Model

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Barrett started programming at the early age of 6 and has been aspiring to become an expense report magnate ever since. David attended the Unive...

984 New King of Influencer Marketing Grows Revenue 6x YoY to $8m

04 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"Gil Eyal is the CEO and Founder of HYPR, the World's largest influencer search and discovery directory. Founded in 2013, HYPR offers brands and marke...

983 200 People Have Paid Him $2k To Live Forever

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Clausnitzer is CEO of Forever Labs, a Y Combinator company. Prior to Forever Labs, Steven spent 15 years mentoring and developing top-talent at...

982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!

02 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brandon is the COO and Co-founder of Cirrus Insight – the sales plugin for Gmail and Outlook. The company is #41 on the Inc. 5000 and the fastest-gr...

981 The Problem With 100% MarketShare

01 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Erica Brescia is the Co-founder and COO of Bitnami. With over 1M deployments per month, the company provides the largest source of application and dev...

980 How This Company Uses Free Goodie Boxes and Reviews to Hit $12m in Revenues

31 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aydin Acar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Influenster, the leading product discovery and reviews platform, and was recently recognized by Entrepreneur ...

979 How Funnel.io 3x ARR to $2.1m in Last 12 Months

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Fredrik Skantze is CEO and co-founder of Funnel.io. Prior to starting Funnel he was co-founder of the automotive e-tailer Autoquake in London and wor...

978 Why Sole Founder is OK Burning $40k Cash and Bootstrapping

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Saltis is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in growing online companies and executing digital strategies. Sam is currently ...

977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+

28 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Fulkerson is an information technology businessman and co-founder of MindTouch, Inc. Fulkerson helped pioneer the open core business model, col...

9 of you donated $527, show will continue

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Big thanks to Lee, Shadi, Sarah, Norris, Blake, Hugh, Gregory, Brandon, and Gijs who told me they wanted the show to continue using their wallets on P...

976 How JotForm Passed 3m Users, $45m in ARR Without Raising Capital

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Hartert is Chief Marketing Officer at JotForm.com, with responsibility for marketing programs, brand management and corporate partnerships. Pri...

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26 Mar 2018

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974 How Portland Company 7x ARR Over Last 12 Months Helping Clients Launch Interactive Lead Campaigns

25 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Haydock has a background in the performance optimization of digital marketing and advertising campaigns. He co-founded Zembula in 2016 after s...

973 How Digilent is Competing in Changing Programmatic Ad Landscape, $40m in Volume over TTM

24 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Alan is Chief Executive Officer at Digilant, the paid media arm of ispDigital, in charge of the company's business development and expansion worldwid...

972 How Battery Paid Off Early Shareholders in Secondary Offering of $40m+ ARR Health Tech Company WebPT

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As CEO of WebPT, Nancy Ham is focused on guiding the company through its next phase of growth, bringing with her a wealth of experience in developing...

971 How Namely Passed 1000 Customers and $40m in ARR

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Straz is the founder and CEO at Namely, the leading HR platform for mid-sized companies. Matt has grown Namely to over 900 clients, 140,000 user...

970 28 Year Old Turns Down $12m Acquisition Offer, Doing $65k in MRR in CoBrowsing, Live Chat Space

21 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO at Tagove. Loves to research in AI, Machine Learning, chatbots, NLP, neuroscience.

969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Trip Adler is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Scribd, a digital library and document-sharing platform. Trip grew up in Palo...

968 How Tumult Hit $5m in Sales, Handled Co-Founder Leaving for Apple

19 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan is the founder and lead developer of Tumult Hype. He's always had one foot in the programming world and the other in visual arts. He previou...

967 With $1b+ In Transaction Volume, He Helps Merchants Get Power of Amazon Checkout

18 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ralph Dangelmaier is the CEO of BlueSnap, a leading global e-commerce payments company. He is a 'FinTech payment veteran' with a wealth of experience...

966 "We'll Process $1b in Corporate Travel Expenses Over Next 24 Months" Says RocketTrip CEO

17 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Ruch is the Founder & CEO of Rocketrip, the leading tech platform for reducing corporate travel costs. Rocketrip motivates below policy spending ...

965 Why This $14m ARR Company "Went Public" To Win Marketing Automation Space

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Carlson is the founder and CEO of SharpSpring, Inc. (NASDAQ: SHSP), a next generation marketing automation platform. In his 20-year career, Carls...

964 How SocialBakers Went From $27m to $35m in ARR Over Last 12 Months

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

uval is the CEO of Socialbakers. He has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in both private and public companies. B...

963 How Ping Identity Moved $75m One Time Revenue to $100m+ Recurring and Sold for $600m in 2016

14 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity, is on a mission to simplify how enterprises provide secure and seamless digital experiences. In 2002, Andre found...

962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Halligan is Co-founder and CEO of HubSpot. He has co-authored two books, 'Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media', and 'Blogs ...

961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR

12 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michael is Co-Founder + CEO of CompStak. CompStak creates transparency in commercial real estate by gathering information that is hard to find, diffi...

960 How SmartBear Passed $90m in ARR Helping 10,000 Customers Test Software

11 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

https://smartbear.com/company/team/featured-people/justin-teague/ Justin is responsible for SmartBear's strategic direction and overall operation. ...

959 Zoho Founder's New CRM Passes $300k MRR from 3000 Customers

10 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I am from Hyderabad (South India). I studied BTech at JNTU (Hyderabad) and MS at University of Delaware. I worked at AT&T for 2 years. In 1995, i jo...

958 When Founders Died, He Acquired $50m+ SaaS Company That Helps You Hire Smarter

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Zani is the CEO of The Predictive Index. He also runs a search fund called Phoenix Strategy Investments. Mike was previously the CEO of LEDCO a...