saas.unbound

Marc Blinder didn’t found Ayrshare — he met it during due diligence. Brought in by saas.group to evaluate the acquisition, he spent a month inside the business, pitched exactly what he’d do as CEO, and then got the job. Less than a year later, Ayrshare has gone from $3M to over $5M ARR, processes nearly a billion API calls a month across 14 social networks, and powered over 300 million video views...

Rehman built two products that both found paying customers and both hit a wall on growth, before he and his co-founder distilled everything down to the one data point users actually valued. This conversation is about what happens when talking to users and moving fast still isn't enough, why salespeople will love your product and still never be the one who buys it, and how ditching an MCP for a CLI...

Ayush Chaturvedi spent 11 years at Samsung before quietly running side projects since 2017 — newsletters, apps, ebooks — none of them hits, all of them signal. In 2021 he quit, bootstrapped an AI writing tool to 5,000 users worldwide, then moved on to build Voiv, a privacy-first on-device dictation app. He now runs Indie Masterminds and Super Frameworks, facilitating weekly founder calls across 15...

Devansh went from $60K bootstrapped to $1M in revenue in seven months — without losing a single enterprise customer. He's also behind one of the largest independent AI newsletters in the world, with 350K subscribers he openly says he doesn't write for. This conversation is about what's actually broken in legal AI, why most tools are glorified RAG wrappers, and how to make real bets in a market ful...

Pete Hunt was a core React team member at Facebook, helped build Instagram's first web app, sold a company to Twitter, and now runs Dagster Labs — the open-source data orchestration company behind Dagster and Dagster Plus. Anna sat down with him to talk about what AI is actually doing to engineering teams, where it isn't helping, and how a $62M-funded company thinks about hiring, distribution, and...

Guillaume Ang co-founded Psyke after a B2B SaaS exit at 27 and five years running one of Australia's first grocery delivery startups. His company now publishes thousands of pages a day for B2B customers — and reports 6 to 10x returns on the work. Anna sat down with him to pressure-test programmatic SEO in the age of AI search, hallucinations, and slop. In this episode: → Why programmatic SEO isn't...

Nicky Szmala joined PicDrop as CEO after the acquisition — walking into a company built by photographers, for photographers, with a growth engine already running. What he found was a community-led model that's quietly outperforming the shortcuts everyone else is chasing. In this episode: → How picdrop finds and works with influencers who already use the product → The two-engine growth model drivin...

Vlad has been online since 1997 — long enough to have seen every "this changes everything" cycle. Now, as founder of RedTrack, he's built a clear-eyed framework for what AI actually changes in SaaS, and what it doesn't. In this episode: → Why AI is the new internet — and the parts of the hype he's not buying → How iOS 14.5 quietly turned media buying from programmatic into algorithmic → The first-...

Hiren bootstrapped Tectivity from a smart locker idea into an IT asset management SaaS that competes with VC-funded rivals — with 25 people, zero outbound, and a customer base that refers each other across job changes. In this episode: → Why he pivoted from hardware to software, and the years he wishes he'd gotten back → How a two-week feature turnaround beats competitors who "charge for innovatio...

Karel Papik spent 20 years making video games and then discovered that gaming principles for hooking users in the first hour are more advanced than most B2B onboarding. He brought that thinking to Product Fruits, then scrapped the entire roadmap to rebuild it around AI. We get into why his investors offered more money within 24 hours of hearing the pivot, how "forbidden mechanics" from gaming tran...

Mark Walker has been a litigator, a music industry lawyer, and a repeat SaaS founder — and he's now CEO of Nue, the revenue orchestration platform quietly running the billing stack for most of the major AI companies you've heard of. We get into why customers come to you looking for reasons not to buy, how one Nue customer had $2M unbilled and didn't know it, when Stripe is genuinely enough and whe...

Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup and then spent a decade realizing he forgot to say "for the better." In this one he breaks down what's actually missing from the way founders build companies, and what to do about it before it's too late. We get into why it's always too early to set up governance until suddenly it's too late, the two-page legal filing most founders skip for no good reason, the stud...

J.Y. Delmotte co-founded six startups, went through YC, and is now running BuddiesHR — a suite of Slack apps doing $56K MRR. In this one he gets unusually specific about what's working, what flopped, and what could kill the business. We get into the Slack Marketplace SEO play that captured 90%+ of inbound (and why it's nearly impossible to replicate now), what happened when he doubled the price tw...

Adnan Malik bootstrapped Software Finder from two people in 2019 to 340 employees with 100%+ growth every year — without ever taking outside funding. The engine: a human matchmaking layer between confused software buyers and overwhelmed vendors. We get into why 70-80% of B2B software buyers end up unhappy, how a 120-person content team drove 300% organic growth while competitors collapsed, and the...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #17 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Aaron Gibson has exited two companies, turned down VC funding, and built Hurree — a data analytics platform — by obsessing over one thing: showing users v...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #16 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Leo Goldfarb, co-founder of Albato — a 100% bootstrapped automation and integration platform with 200,000 users and 80 people — after years at Microsoft,...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #15 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with David Boyne, founder of EventCatalog, an open-source documentation tool specifically designed for event-driven architectures (EDAs), allowing teams to doc...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #14 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Pieter Boon, co-founder of ImpactPilot, a Customer Success (CS) platform designed specifically as an add-on for HubSpot. Pieter spent his career in post-s...

•saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #13 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Joel Griffith, founder of browserless, a cloud-based headless browser-as-a-service platform that allows developers to run automated browser tasks. Joel G...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #12 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Pius Binder, co-founder of subsig, a B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that helps companies manage their reputation and monitor brand mentions acr...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #11 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Marko from Plausible Analytics. He joins the podcast for a refreshingly honest conversation about what seven years of bootstrapped growth actually looks l...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #10 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Sergiy Korolov, co-founder of Railsware and the brain behind Mailtrap. From accidentally launching one of the most popular developer tools with zero marke...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #9 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Simon Manz, founder of entitys.io , a cloud-based Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform specifically designed fo...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #8 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Max Armbruster, founder of Talkpush, a conversational AI-driven recruitment platform designed to automate high-volume hiring processes. ----------- Episode...

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #7 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with Benjamin Houy, founder of CopyCat Cafe, an AI-powered language learning platform—formerly known as French Together—that helps users learn French by imitati...