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

1638 How He Makes Universities More Money By Keeping Students From Flunking 18.01.2020

Ethan Keiser is the CEO and founder of StudyTree, an app leveraging artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile academic assistant. He received his B.S from Drexel University in Computer Science before founding StudyTree. Ethan has won various business plan competitions including the Microsoft Imagine Cup and Dell Innovation Award, and regularly speaks about artificial intelligence a...

1637 The Art of Shifting $60M in 1991 Revenue to Pure SaaS 17.01.2020

Robert Alves - Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Solutions International (ASI) – is a dynamic, entrepreneurial leader who has grown the company from its beginnings in 1991 to become the leading and largest supplier worldwide of software to non-profit organizations. With offices on three continents, and more than 4,000 clients served, Alves has kept ASI in the forefront by consistently makin...

1636 How 3 Month Old Harvestr Is Thinkng About Its First Paywall 16.01.2020

I am the cofounder and CEO of Harvestr, a product management platform for customer-driven teams. I have a double background in business and engineering and I have worked in various industries : smartphones, environmental services and even in the French public administration. I am also a soccer player and DJ.

1635 How He Plans to Get Churn Under 30% Annually in Event SaaS Space 15.01.2020

Aaron Lifshin is the CEO and founder of MeetingPulse. He has a 20-year track record creating and managing award-winning technical teams in the US and the UK. Successful exit: XLN Telecom, as CTO. Aaron is passionate about genuine human communication in all forms. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

1634 Why This Founder Knows He Has To be 100% Owner (And Thats Not a Bad Thing) 14.01.2020

Built two profitable startups and then sold them (one e-commerce national, and one international). The last startup I've got VC investment without meeting the investors, I've incorporated in Ireland without ever going to Ireland, I've run an 8 people team all remote, became profitable and sold it in 2017. I like going from 0 to 1. I've been in two accelerators.

1633 Why He's Going $100k+ ACV From Day 1 in Recruiting Diversity Space 13.01.2020

Scot is co-founder and CEO at TalVista. He brings more than 25 years of business management and leadership experience from fast paced startup companies. Previously, Scot ran his own consultancy focusing on marketing strategy serving fast paced startups in the HCM space. Prior to that, Scot was senior director at HireVue. Scot is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses over his dive...

1632 How He Got 1000 Customers from 42,000 Free Users, $150k in MRR 12.01.2020

Lionel Roux, Engineer + MBA graduate, my career started in Japan working for Total (oil). Then, I created Nutec (racing fuels) in Southern California that I sold three years later. After graduation, I worked as a strategy consultant. In 2011, I created Wimi which makes teamwork fun and efficient.

1631 His Argument For Moving from SaaS to On Prem 11.01.2020

Startup Founder, Digital Entrepreneur, and Product Executive, Zoltan hails from Hungary where he began his career in marketing and business development working for major brands such as T-Mobile, HBO, and Google (eventually as their initial Country Manager). After having worked 4 years in beautiful Barcelona, Zoltan now is co-founder & CEO of Gitential, a software development analytics platform.

1630 How He Used Linkedin To Close First 15 Customers, $45k in MRR for Debt Collection SaaS 10.01.2020

Intrepid entrepreneur, explorer and video-gamer, Pedro has been in the startup world for 10 years having co-founded 4 projects and 2 successful exits mostly in the B2B space. His passion for collective sports and traveling has given him a broad perspective of the world, which he uses to daily guide his business towards, success...hopefully

1629 Will a Rebrand Help this $500k MRR Company Break 30% YoY Growth? 09.01.2020

As Chief Executive Officer, President, Board Member and Investor in Integration Technologies, Inc., and the creator of InterWeave Smart Solutions, Bruce brings customer focused Solutions in response to customers' needs in to the digital age. Bruce has also served as the Chief Executive Officer, President, Board Member and Investor in SecurDigital, Inc., the company that developed SecurVoice©; the...

1628 How He Used Singularity University To Get 17 Customers, $1M in ARR In 5 Months 08.01.2020

Sean Hinton is Founder and CEO of SkyHive (www.skyhive.io), a Canadian technology company that applies machine/deep learning to discovering revolutionary efficiencies in the movement of human capital. Sean is a future of work thought leader, and passionate about applying SkyHive's technology to support the workforce's most at-risk populations.

1627 How He Spent $200k/mo To Build $9M ARR Workflow Automation Software 07.01.2020

Suresh Sambandam is the Founder & CEO of OrangeScape, makers of KiSSFLOW, a disruptive, SaaS-based enterprise-level work automation and collaboration platform with more than 10,000 customers across 160 countries. He is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize automation and create immersive work experience for enterprises of all sizes.

1626 How He's Making $5m in ARR off $35M in GMV From B2C ECommerce Brands 06.01.2020

Ciaran steers the ship at Kooomo HQ, has spent over 20 years growing and developing internationally focused online media and digital commerce businesses. Since taking the helm in 2016, Kooomo has made it into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for digital commerce 2017 and is now positioned to service clients in the B2C market as well as cater to the explosive growth in the B2B eCommerce space.

1625 How $31M ARR CEO Profits $500k/mo and Cracked SMB Net Retention of 110% 05.01.2020

Founder & CEO of Odoo.

1624 Why This Founder is Totally Happy Running 2 Businesses At Once 04.01.2020

Jack of some trades, master of a couple. I'm a builder by instinct, manager by heart, and a marketer by necessity. I love writing code, assembling teams, and measuring growth. I built Parrot QA to scratch an itch - functional testing is a headache, and customers hate bugs. There has to be a better way!    

1623 How He Plans to Beat Facebook at Work with $90k From Friends and Family 03.01.2020

Sean is the CEO and co-founder of Unaty. Having worked as a web designer, developer, and enterprise software consultant, he now spends his days helping community leaders inspire action and members find and follow their passion. He's always excited to talk to people passionate about building a better future!

1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space? 02.01.2020

Adrian Russo is a talent acquisition professional, who leverages his software development background to help organizations find talent. He is a Co-founder and Developer of RecruitLocator, a SaaS-based open-web, resume search tool. Adrian led technical recruiting at various organizations including National Institutes of Health, Discovery Communications, and Department of Defense. Adrian is featured...

1621 The Unique Way He Plans to Go from $312 Million to $1 Billion 01.01.2020

Serial entrepreneur and author Brian Scudamore pioneered the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, turning a chore people avoid into an exceptional customer service experience. Then he scaled that success into three more brands, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine.

1620 How He's Managing 15% Monthly Churn, $250k in MRR 31.12.2019

Dave Kearney is the founder of www.fluidui.com, a software prototyping tool that has helped over a quarter of a million product managers, entrepreneurs and product visionaries to create and communicate their ideas. He cares most about great usability, efficient product development processes and socially responsible companies.    

1619 How He Got first 120 Customers, $10k in MRR Selling Into Industry You Wouldn't Expect 30.12.2019

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljasonprince/ With WalletCard occupational health & safety records are easily & automatically updated to reduce the administrative burden of training management. With a collaborative digital safety record at its core: the technology eliminates manual tracking of fragmented paper records by consolidating all documentation into one cloud solution to prove due dilige...

1618 He's Build a $500k ARR Company Serving As POS For Latin American Owned Restaurants 29.12.2019

Sabor POS is the premier restaurant software on the Windows Store, #1 most downloaded Restaurant POS for Windows 10. Sabor POS provides all the features you need to fully automate your ordering and accept customer payments

1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1 28.12.2019

James Sturges has a strong software engineering and product design background, having led several teams in building enterprise software. He is Co-Founder and VP of Product at Audseb, focusing on building better knowledge management and support tools for employees. James is an avid golfer, adventurous traveler, and passionate problem solver.

1616 Why Navy Vet Joined 7 Year Old SaaS Company With No Revenue 27.12.2019

Royal Naval Officer for 10 yrs - mission critical leadership in submarine service & gulf war. Lead operational component of transformation of FFastFill from marketcap £1.7m ISV to £106 SAAS vendor. Led EMEA transformation of Datawatch from desktop monarch vendor to full suite analytics offering. Now developing AI powered offering to transform the business users interact with IT.

1615 Secrets to Cold Traffic to Demo to Sales Funnel with $1.8m ARR SalesProcess CEO 26.12.2019

Nick Kozmin B.Sc. Engineering Physics Founder of Salesprocess.io ($0-$1.8M run rate. Bootstrapped. 1 Commission-based employee) Helping 250 SaaS and high-ticket service companies scale up. Banked first milly by 27 YO from scratch.

1614 Why 100 Enterprises Pay Him $3m ARR So Employees Can Record Training Videos 25.12.2019

Sebastian Walker is the CEO of SlidePresenter, a digital knowledge transfer software. Sebastian studied business economy and worked at major consultancies. Looking to revolutionize the internal knowledge flow for corporations globally, he founded SlidePresenter in 2011, an intuitive solution that empowers any employee to create training videos within minutes.

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