Founder Views - SaaS, Business, and Beyond

I've been on the hunt to learn as much about short-term rentals and Airbnb investing as possible. After getting connected with Spencer and Ashley, I immediately knew there were no better people to learn from. Since 2018, they have accumulated 6 Airbnb properties, both in the Niagara region and in the US. They also manage over 60 properties for other Airbnb investors across the country. Their top g...

This is a conversation I was very excited to have, and more importantly, share with everyone. Andrew Lawton is a well-respected Journalist and Broadcaster in Canada. I caught notice of Andrew's work during the freedom convoy protests in Ottawa. He was one of my main sources of accurate information about what was going on, and have been following his work ever since. I was eager to speak to Andrew...

One of the real estate investment strategies that has captured my interest as of late, is short-term Airbnb rentals.  The idea of very high cash flow potential in high-demand areas is something I wanted to dive into further. I spoke with Matthew Campoli, a real estate investor and realtor in the Toronto area. Besides helping clients purchase Airbnb rentals and other investments, he also owns renta...

My oldest child is starting kindergarten, and the thoughts of alternative schooling options have been on my mind. I've been questioning the concept of traditional school system for quite a while, and have been on an exploration to determine what type of schooling is best for my kids. Hannah Frankman is the founder of rebelEducator. She grew up homeschooled, skipped college to cut her teeth in the...

Due to popular demand and several questions about the Infinite Banking Concept, I thought I’d speak to another specialist on the subject. Nate Dean is the co-founder of Unlimited Life Concepts, a company that educates people on Infinite Banking and helps them implement the concept in their lives. I tried to steer the conversation in ways that addressed real practical ways people can implement the...

Jas Takhar is the founder of REC Canada, one of the top real estate teams in the country. As an active real estate investor, and a very prominent voice in the real estate community, I was excited to speak with Jas hear his insights and thoughts around the current market conditions, and how to navigate these times of high inflation and increasing interest rates. I always enjoy speaking to Jas, beca...

This conversation includes Clara Medalie, Director of Research at Kaiko. Clara is a very prominent voice in the crypto space, and is often featured on major financial new outlets, such as CNBC and CoinDesk. Kaiko is cryptocurrency market data provider that analyzes data from over 100 centralized and decentralized crypto exchanges around the globe. My hope on this episode was to better understand t...

This was a fascinating chat with Paco de la India, who is travelling to 40 countries in 400 days, using nothing but bitcoin. I caught up with him while he was in Zambia, the 15th country on his journey. I was eager to speak with Paco so I can understand the practicality of using bitcoin in day-to-day life. His first-hand experiences were very insightful. We spoke about his journey thus far, and: -...

Adam O'Brien is a bitcoin entrepreneur and the CEO of Bitcoin Well, the first publicly traded bitcoin company in the world that allows customers to self-custody their bitcoin. Bitcoin Well also operates over 250+ bitcoin ATM's across Canada. Adam's startup story is very inspiring. He bootstrapped his company from one bitcoin ATM in Edmonton, to over 250 ATM's across the country, listing his compan...

I'm speaking with Scott Cordier, a certified financial planner for the past 28 years, and Certified Infinite Banking Practitioner. I randomly stumbled on the Infinite Banking Concept several months back, and have never looked back since. Infinite Banking is a financial strategy that has been used by the wealthiest people in the world for generations, which is also available to anyone. To fully gra...

This episode includes Bitcoin OG Brad Mills, and entrepreneur and Bitcoin investor" Jimmy Toussaint, also known as "The Prettiest Boy in Bitcoin".  With all of the chaos in the markets, I thought it was important to speak to people who are deep into Bitcoin, and get their perspectives on what is happening, and where things are going. As an investor in Bitcoin, and someone with a high-level underst...

I'm currently exploring some real estate investment opportunities, and so I wanted to chat with an expert. Daniel Foch is a highly regarded real estate broker, investor and market analyst. In the conversation, we explore many topics that could impact the real estate market in Toronto, as well as the economy as a whole: 👉 The effects of rising Interest rates 👉 Central banks and monetary supply 👉...

Derek Steer, Co-founder and CEO of Mode Analytics . Mode helps entrepreneurs grow their businesses faster through data-driven decision making.  The Mode platform combines the best elements of Business Intelligence (ABI), Data Science (DS) and Machine Learning (ML) to empower data teams to answer impactful questions and collaborate on analysis across a range of business functions. In 2019, Mode add...

Sagi Eliyahu is the CEO & Co-Founder of Tonkean , the no-code, automation platform that helps companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and TripActions to solve their operational inefficiencies and business problems. Tonkean recently raised their $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing the company’s total fundraising to $33M. Prior to Tonkean, Sagi held executive engineering rol...

Nicolas started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Math at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, and started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper - the System of Action for revenue teams - and of KosmoTime - the first Focused Productivity Assistant.

Ondrej Sedlacek is the CEO and founder of SatisMeter . SatisMeter helps companies measure and improve customer satisfaction through NPS (Net Promoter Score) surveys. If you're in SaaS, then you've heard about the importance of NPS. If this is a topic you've been interested in learning more about, there's no one better to learn about it than Ondrej. We talk about how SatisMeter got started, and how...

Rytis Lauris is the CEO of Omnisend , a marketing automation SaaS that helps e-commerce companies. Omnisend is bootstrapped, employees +70 people, and has grown past +$11M ARR in only 6 years! Rytis talks about his founding story, specific marketing strategies that helped Omnisend gain traction early, understanding monetization strategies, leveraging integration partnerships, how he manages a grow...

Tom Wright is the CEO and co-founder of Cascade , a software that helps teams stay focused on their goals. Very impressively, Cascade serves +25,000 users, have 40+ employees, offices in 3 countries, and are closing in on $10M annual recurring revenue -all while bootstrapped!

This is one of those episodes you might have to listen to more than once. Eugene Levin is the Chief Strategy Officer of SEMrush , an SEO management platform with over 800 employees around the world. Eugene has a very unique mind when it comes to marketing and how to think about growth in business, and it's clear how much he's contributed to the great success of SEMrush. This episode is jam-packed...

I’m speaking with Josh Pigford, CEO and founder of Baremetrics . If you’re in SaaS, you’ve definitely heard of Josh and Baremetrics. Hundreds of SaaS and subscription businesses use Baremetrics to properly display dashboards and metrics to give a real time breakdown of how their company is performing. This is fundamental for every SaaS company, and Baremetrics has been the staple in that departmen...

I'm speaking with automation and efficiency guru (or automation geek, as he calls himself), Will Christensen, co-founder of Data Automation . Almost all companies of any size struggle with efficiency and waste countless hours with redundant and manual work. Will specializes in helping SaaS companies save time through automating workflows. We talk about ways Data Automation helps SaaS companies sav...

In this episode, I’m speaking with Spencer Fry, the CEO and founder of Podia . Podia helps creators sell anything online from courses, downloads, and memberships, without worrying about any tech. Podia is about 5 years old, they’re a fully remote team of 19 people at the time we recorded this (possibly even more now), and they just seem to be picking up a ton of traction in this space. Spencer has...

I’m speaking with serial entrepreneur, Josh MacDonald in this episode. Josh is a fellow software entrepreneur from the greater Toronto area (as am I), so it was really great to connect with him and hear his story - and what a story it is! Josh is only 24 years old (at the time of recording this of course), and he has a tremendous wealth of knowledge and insights that are very impressive. Josh got...

I’m speaking with Amar Ghose in this episode. Amar is the CEO of ZenMaid , a scheduling management software that helps cleaning and maid services be more efficient and organized. Amar has done an amazing job of building himself a very nice, high margin company. ZenMaid is fully remote, bootstrapped, and are set to cross over $1.5M in annual recurring revenue this year. I’m pretty envious of Amar’s...

I’m speaking with Colin Nederkoorn, CEO and co-founder of customer.io . Colin was an absolute pleasure to speak with. He built customer.io in 2012 with his co-founder John, and have been exploding ever since. For those who don’t know, customer.io is a SaaS company that gives companies one place to manage all of their their emails, push notifications, SMS’s and other messages that come from their p...