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

1413 With $4m in ARR, This Cannabis POS System Is Market Leader Growing 3x YoY 07.06.2019

Kyle Sherman is the Founder and CEO of Flowhub and serves on the board of directors as Chairman. A legalization advocate and entrepreneur, Kyle is finding ways to use technology to help drive cannabis legalization forward responsibly in the United States. In 2014, Kyle began lobbying the Colorado Department of Revenue to build an API to Metrc, the State's cannabis tracking system, so that third pa...

1412 Passed $12m in ARR, Banks Use This API To Decrease Currency Risk 06.06.2019
1411 This Tool is Flat, Bootstrapped, Why Won't Founder Get The Hell out and Sell? 05.06.2019

Former consultant to MIcrosoft, GE, GM, American Express and others. Founder of Spokal.

1410 Bootstrapped Enterprise Email Marketing Firm Breaks $3.6m ARR, 70% YoY Growth 04.06.2019

Pierce started his career at Cognos, which went on to be acquired by IBM. Pierce then joined two start-ups that both went on to have successful exits where he led and implemented Marketo. He then founded Revenue Pulse, a Marketo consultancy and Knak, a SaaS application for enterprise email creation.

1409 $1.5B Freshworks To IPO: Growing 40% YoY, Passes $100M in ARR, $250M Raised, 150,000 Companies Using 03.06.2019

Girish Mathrubootham is the founder and CEO of Freshworks, one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS product company, winning the Economic Times Startup of the Year in 2016, and the Business Standard Startup of the Year in 2017. Freshworks now has a suite of products for businesses worldwide - Freshdesk, Freshservice, Freshsales, Freshcaller, Freshteam, Freshchat and Freshmarketer. Girish is part of...

1408 Quickly Launch Video Creatives With Automatic Tool Lumen5, $100k in MRR 02.06.2019
1407 Ex Facebook Now Happily Bootstrapping in UX Research Tool Space Past $125k in MRR 01.06.2019

Nate Bolt is the Founder of Ethnio, a 5-person SaaS. Former research manager at Facebook and Instagram, CEO of Bolt | Peters, and faculty at the SVA iXD program. Co-author of Remote Research and once droned the NYPL. Based in LA with wife, son, and two dogs.

1406 How Continuous Improvement Platform 15Five Hit $10m ARR using Land and Expand 31.05.2019

David Hassell is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of 15Five. David's foray into entrepreneurship begun nearly 20 years ago, co-founding three companies in ad tech, kite surfing adventure travel, and leadership coaching before starting 15Five, where he sees the opportunity to help organizations and everyone in them reach their highest potential. David formerly served as the Presiden...

1405 How ClickDimensions is using Microsoft Ecosytem To Drive to $40m in ARR 30.05.2019
1404 He was fired then went all in, now $30k/mo 29.05.2019

John is the founder of GetCredo.com. They take a high touch approach to matching businesses with the right SEO and marketing agencies. John has a decade in SEO, primarily on the largest sites on the internet. He lives in Denver with his wife and their black labrador Butterbean.

1403 This Direct Mailing SaaS Company Went From $0 to $135k in MRR Using Hubspot Partner Ecosystem 28.05.2019
1402 100% Female Owned, Bootstrapped, Marketing Automation Company for SMB's Passes $85k in MRR 27.05.2019
1401 UserTesting CEO "We're at $65m in ARR Now, Hoping to Break $80m by EOY" across 3000 paying customers 26.05.2019

Andy MacMillan is CEO of UserTesting, the leading Human Insights company. Prior to UserTesting he was CEO of Act-On Software and COO, Products at Salesforce. Andy is from the Detroit area and has a B.A. from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland).

1400 How he Plans to Reach Profitability in CRM space by EOY 25.05.2019
1399 Isralei Defense CEO Passes $250k MRR for Real Time Visitor Segmentation 24.05.2019

I am an Israeli entrepreneur with a specialty in data science; after building several e-commerce sites, I recognized the tremendous need for personalization and the opportunity to fill a niche in the market, and so eventually I arrived at a venture that serves one of my chief passions, utilizing AI and digital automation to create an internet that is more personal and efficient. Since 2008, we at...

1398 How Limelight Is Shifting to More SaaS Revenue, $5m Currently 23.05.2019

Recognizing the early trend for insurtech innovation in 2013, Jason co-founded Limelight Health to deliver better data integration and sales efficiency for insurance carriers, PEO's, brokers and others in the employee benefits ecosystem. Limelight's award-winning technology, QuotePad™, aims to transform the way health insurance and employee benefits are quoted, sold and renewed. Jason is a serial...

1397 How He Plans to Solve 12% Churn 22.05.2019

Neil Napier is a charismatic leader of people. He empowers people to spread their wings and develop their super-powers. Neil cares about his customers like nobody else and is available for them more than his wife would prefer. He loves to teach and goes the extra mile to enable success.

1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine 21.05.2019
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR 20.05.2019

00:30 – How Kahuna focuses on customer engagement 03:05 – Why they price based on volume and usage 03:50 – How he made the decision to join Kahuna after they approached him 04:50 – Why both of Kahuna's founders are still involved in the company 05:10 – Their team of 40 full-time employees is based in Redwood City 05:40 – Why they've scaled to serve 100 total customers internationally 06:40 – How t...

1394 How he used affiliates to go from Zero to $50k in MRR in 16 Months 19.05.2019

0:55 – How SaaS PayKickstart launched inside agency 1:25 – Why their average customer pays $99 per month 2:10 – How they've hit $50k in MRR today 2:40 – How $0 to $10k/mo in under 12 months 3:40 – Why they've bootstrapped to this point 4:15 – Tactic used to hit 20% gross revenue churn 9:40 – How they are landing customers through affiliates and cold outreach 10:50 – Why 10-15% of their revenue is...

1393 Agency Spin Out Launches, Gets First $9k/mo in Revenue 18.05.2019

Time Stamped Show Notes:

1392 $104m in ARR and Bootstrapped?!?! How?! 17.05.2019

Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Nathan's introduction to today's show 00:25 – Why Kellogg was named top CEO by Glassdoor 00:45 – How Madwire has grown to 600 employees 01:25 – Why they operate on a hybrid SaaS and professional service model 02:30 – How they view revenue per employee and prioritize it 03:15 – Why they are doing $175k in revenue per employee today 03:30 – How Madwire is doing $105M...

1391 Can they Become B2B Version of LastPass? 16.05.2019

French, 24yo. I have lived in the US, Cambodia, South Korea, and Switzerland. I launched my first company 4 years ago doing smartphone repairs for students in campuses. And 18 months ago, I started Ease.space with 3 other people.

1390 With $3m+ in ARR and 300+ Customers, He's Making Digital Advertising Easier for Publishers 15.05.2019
1389 With $10m in ARR, He's Helping Publishers Better Monetize Social Traffic 14.05.2019

Distinguished track record in technology, with a 20-plus year career spanning the development, marketing, and sale of technology. Spent the past 10 years on the cutting edge of social media, helping media companies and marketers more effectively use technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain to power their social media efforts.

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