Nathan Latka

Top Founders

What if you knew data behind the fastest growing SaaS companies today? Each morning join Nathan Latka as he spends 15 minutes interviewing SaaS founders. You'll learn how SaaS CEO's launched their startup and grew it into a real SaaS business. SaaS Founders range from bootstrapped to funded, MVP to 10,000 customers, pre revenue to pre IPO.

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Nathan Latka

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Latest episode

Oct 27, 2026

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Episodes

153 Brands Use Them To Report Sales Volume to Shopping Malls, $20k in MRR, $1.5m Raised 10.06.2020

CEO of ShoppinPal. Previously, as a Product Manager and grew $40B payment volume products at eBay/PayPal, 1st non founding engineer at Trustgenix (acquired by HP). Recently featured in Leaders of Tomorrow (India's version of the Shark Tank) and selected twice by Invest Stockholm as one of the most promising ventures identified to expand business in Sweden. Passionate about helping SMEs, creating t...

"Ex VC Bootstrapping New G2 Competitor, 24 Customers, $12k MRR " 09.06.2020

Phil Strazzulla is a finance nerd turned entrepreneur. Phil started investing in the stock market when he was 12, but set his sights on starting a company after an internship at a two person company during college. After graduating from NYU, Phil began his career working in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners before getting his MBA at Harvard Business School. He's a self taught programmer...

Rosterfy Hits $1.2m Revenues Helping Superbowl Staff Volunteers 08.06.2020

Rosterfy is widely regarded as the most comprehensive volunteer management solution in the market, providing end to end technology for workforce programs throughout the world. Our scalable technology streamlines the previously manual process of workforce management for organisations all shapes and sizes from the Super Bowl to tin rattlers for local charities. As a business our mission is connectin...

They Spent $100k on MVP, Now Have Customers Expanding $100/mo to $1000/mo in First year, How!? 07.06.2020

Business strategy and execution professional with 15+ years experience of delivering high growth projects for SMBs and large enterprises -MBA INSEAD - MS Virginia Tech - B.Tech, Delhi College of Engineering - IFC (World Bank Group), IL&FS, Carollo Engineers

"He Raised $900k And Sold For $1.8m... Why? " 06.06.2020

15 years of startup experience as founder/CEO/CTO. Founder & CEO ProLeads, acquired by OutboundWorks in a seven figures cash deal plus stock. 500 Startups and The Alchemist Accelerator alumni & mentor. CTO at Arrivalguides.com (acquired by Lonely Planet). Founder & CEO Tablefinder (acquired by Visit). DJ as @desertpillar

Mela.Work Raising $1-2m Right Now With $200k in Revenue, Fair Valuation? 05.06.2020

Mela. Work is an app that simplifies management of field construction teams both online and offline. Founder Francesco Putignano lived in 7 countries and speaks 5 languages. He became a nuclear engineer before getting an MBA and working at a fast growing ticketing marketplace. Founded Mela Works with two of his best friends, with the objective of changing the way work is executed in heavy industry...

Get More People to Take Your Online Course w/ Gamification, Solo Founder, $100k in ARR 04.06.2020

BLUErabbit is a gamified engagement platform originally designed for the improvement of classroom environments but has now evolved to generate engagement in any space that requires interaction between players and organizers We received the Outstanding Gamification Software award in Nov 2017 from Gamification Europe and went from 25k gross profit to 150k in one year.

11 SaaS Companies, Dane Takes Paperless Pipeline to $2m Revenues, Launches Start From Zero Framework 03.06.2020

This man has a method that can create bootstrapped profitable SaaS products from scratch. He was Fired from Ernst & Young. Failed at 11 businesses. Figured out what worked. Taught the patterns. Helped create 15 millionaires. Loves building SaaS products. Loves to sing and released his third musical album last year.

TrustMary: Transition from $2m Agency to $200k SaaS 02.06.2020

Always curious to learn new things, share them with my wife and two boys, customers and business partners. Hooked with so many hobbies that 48h per day wouldn't be enough so need to limit it to a few top ones including golf, ice hockey, fishing and every now and then to other ball games.

DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done 01.06.2020

Russ Perry is the Founder and CEO of Design Pickle, the world's most successful flat-rate creative service. Russ leads a global team as they rethink and deliver a remarkable new way to find the perfect creative.

LivingSecurity.com: Guess What Multiple They're Raising $5m Series A At 31.05.2020

Ashely Rose is the CEO of Living Security, where she helps companies reduce risk by making security awareness engaging and quantifiable.  If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests.  For more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE then visit GetLatka.com

BoomTime.com: Hit $2.8m in Revenues, First 100 Customers From Linkedin 30.05.2020

His name is Bill Bice, serial entrepreneur since age 14. He is passionate about enabling smaller businesses to more successfully compete with their larger competitors through effective marketing. Through the years, Bill has built and invested in over 25 companies but kept finding the same flaws in marketing strategies so, a programmer at heart, he founded Boomtime, a company that tackles marketing...

Refersion.com: Bootstrapped SaaS Doing $1.5m in Cash Flow 29.05.2020

Shibo Xu is the co-founder of Refersion and grew the company from the two co-founders to a leading SaaS platform serving over 7000 merchants across two offices. Before Refersion, Shibo was a technology consultant partnering with Fortune 500 enterprises to concept and build digital products. If you enjoy this episode, it'd help me out if you left a review. This helps me get hard to reach guests.  F...

How to Acquire a $180k Revenue SaaS Company for $3k With Ryan Kulp 28.05.2020

Ryan Kulp is a marketer and self-taught developer, best known as founder of Fomo.com. He and his wife buy and grow small companies together at their Micro PE fund, Fork Equity (forkequity.com). Ryan has been traveling full-time for 2 years and writes a data-driven travel blog at rickshawlabs.com. On this episode we discuss how he finds companies to buy, why he's ok not getting huge, and how he ens...

PushPress.com Hits 1,000 Gym Customers Paying $140 Each 27.05.2020

Dan Uyemura is the CEO of PushPress.com, a tool that helps boutique gyms grow.  Dan shares why he took a $500k loan from the SBA to start the company. Why why he spent $100k in 2010 to open his own gym. How he grew to $1.6m in revenue run rate, up 63% from 2019.  If you enjoy todays content, please leave a review. It helps me get hard-to-reach guests! To get more SaaS content, SUBSCRIBE and visit...

RunBolt.com: $800k Revenue, Construction Scheduling Tool 26.05.2020

RunBolt founder Sam Knight joins me today and talks about he he spun a construction scheduling tool out of it's parent company. We talk about cap table structure, his first sales hire and setting $30,000 quota. How does Sam get 50% of new customers to pay annually up front? How'd he get his first 50 customers? What's his plan to reduce churn? We discuss each of these items. To get more SaaS conten...

1766 $700k Cash In Bank, $2m ARR, 100% YoY Growth, They're Hot! 25.05.2020

Smartlook records users on websites and in iOS & Android apps. With features that allow you to find useful information even in thousands of recordings in no time.

1765 "How He Doubled ARR to $2m Via Acquisition " 24.05.2020

Matt Dion CEO of Mintent, is a technology industry veteran with 24 years of experience ushering early stage companies through the tricky early adopter and early majority market phases.

1764 "CoronaVirus Driving Massive Growth At This $2.5m ARR Virtual Event SaaS Company " 23.05.2020

Internet business executive with over 12 years of experience in managing small to mid-size organizations, product development, business operations, and strategy. Have conceptualized and grown multiple businesses from zero to multi-million dollars in North America and in the Middle East.

1763 $4m ARR Company Burned $1.7m Last Year, Good or Bad? 22.05.2020

Maciej Zawadziński – CEO of Piwik PRO and Clearcode; analytics and advertising technology expert; entrepreneur and startup founder. Maciej is an expert in analytics and advertising technology and founder of several successful companies. He has led Clearcode to its position as a leading software house building custom advertising and marketing technology and in 2013 founded Piwik PRO, a privacy-comp...

1762 How Convertri Used Affiliates To Hit $1m ARR, $700k Profit 21.05.2020

Andy Fletcher is a serial entrepreneur now working on his 3rd company. He has a background in development and a Masters degree in Computer Science but fell in love with digital marketing about a decade ago. This makes martech SaaS pretty much the perfect place for him to be.

Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks 20.05.2020
1761 Changelog Software Hits $650k Revenue, Bootstrapped From Spain 20.05.2020

Started career in banking. Now 3x SaaS founder for Beamer, Hibox and Joincube. Love running hyper lean bootstrapped B2B SaaS companies outside of SF. Have been based in Spain and Chile. Moving to Boulder shortly.

1760 $20m To Build MVP: Does Carbonite Founder Have Another Billion Dollar Idea? 19.05.2020

David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company that delivers fast, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage. Prior to Wasabi, David co-founded Carbonite, one of the world's leading cloud backup companies. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur for more than 30 years.

Jonathan Herzog: His Plan To Get 30k Votes to Beat Jerry Nadler for NY Congressional Seat, YangGang Strategy and Freedom Dividend 18.05.2020

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