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Nathan Latka ยท Business

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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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From $5K to $10M ARR: The ArcAds Founder's Playbook

10 Dec 2025
35m
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In this interview, Romain Torres, the founder of ArcAds.ai, discusses the company's rapid growth to $10 million in annual recurring revenue in just 20 months. He shares how ArcAds helps businesses generate AI-driven video ads, the initial validation of their service, and the impact of a viral video on Twitter. Torres d...

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From $450K to $9M ARR in 5 Years: Club Caddie's Vertical SaaS Playbook

03 Dec 2025
28m
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Jason Pearsall, the founder and CEO of Club Caddie, is interviewed about his journey in the golf course management software industry. He discusses starting Club Caddie after recognizing the need for a comprehensive SaaS solution while operating his own golf course. Pearsall details the company's growth, its acquisition...

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Bootstrapped to $82M: How Callum Mckeefery Built Reviews.io from His Kitchen Table

26 Nov 2025
27m
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Callum Mckeefery shares his journey of building and selling Reviews.io for $82 million cash. Starting from a kitchen table with his wife, they bootstrapped the company, achieving $12 million in annual recurring revenue with 50 employees. Mckeefery discusses their viral loop strategy, leveraging Twitter to gather initia...

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He Used AI to Generate $6m Revenue at Dreamstories by Selling Childrens Books

21 Nov 2025
26m
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In this interview, Nathan Latka interviews Ricardo, the co-founder of DreamStories.ai, an AI content studio focused on personalized content creation. Ricardo discusses his background, including his early involvement with Spotify and a snack company, and how those experiences led to the creation of DreamStories.ai. The ...

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Lemlist Revenue Hits $40M: CEO Charles Breaks Down $25M Claap Acquisition Deal

18 Nov 2025
19m
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In this episode, Nathan Latka interviews Charles Tenot, the CEO of Lemlist and Lempire, about Lemlist's recent acquisition of Claap, an AI-powered call intelligence platform. Charles explains that Lemlist, a sales engagement platform with over $40M in ARR, acquired Claap to enhance its offerings with call recording, tr...

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Woah! Unicorn Founder Quits Unicorn During $213M Raise, Launches Something Bigger

08 Aug 2025
28m
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In this interview, Nathan interviews Ry Walker, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Astronomer and Tembo.io. Ry discusses his departure from Astronomer after a successful Series C round, driven by the opportunity to realize liquidity and his desire to return to early-stage company building. The conversation then shift...

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He Makes $20m/Yr Selling Digital Robots to Companies

29 Jul 2025
16m
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In this interview, Nathan interviews Bassem Handy, the CEO and co-founder of Briq, an AI automation platform focused on construction, energy, and manufacturing. Bassem discusses Briq's business model of providing "robots as a service," where customers pay for AI-driven robots to automate tasks, such as accounting, on e...

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How This 25 Year Old College Kid Built a $500K/Month App Empire

15 Jul 2025
29m
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In this interview, Nathan interviews Sid Bendre, a co-founder at Oleve, about building a $6 million revenue mobile app business with a small team. Sid discusses the company's initial viral success with their app Quizzard, driven by TikTok, and their focus on AI-powered tutoring. He explains their growth loops, paywall ...

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My Agent Army Brings Me $500,000 Per Month (Exploding SaaS)

08 Jul 2025
25m
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In this interview, Romain Torres, the founder of ARCads.ai, discusses how his company helps users create winning ads using AI actors. He shares his journey from running a mobile app and struggling with user-generated content to launching ARCads in January 2024. Romain details ARCads' rapid growth to $6 million in ARR w...

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AI Tool Hits $3.2m Revenue in 18 Months Using 7 Growth Tactics (Copy!)

02 Jul 2025
22m
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In this interview, Ricardo Ghekiere from BetterPic discusses how he bootstrapped his company to $270,000 a month in revenue using SEO, affiliate marketing, and free tools. He explains BetterPic's core use cases, such as CVs and social media, and shares insights into their technology, which includes proprietary elements...

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Mobile App King: 2 Lines of Code Make Him $3.6 Million Per Year

19 Jun 2025
24m
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In this interview, Nathan speaks with Jake Mor, the founder of Superwall, a company that helps mobile apps integrate subscriptions and optimize paywalls. Jake discusses Superwall's two-line code integration for new apps, its advanced toolset for paywall testing and customer targeting, and its dual approach of self-serv...

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How I Built It: $6M/Year Email AI Platform (Bootstrapped)

18 Jun 2025
16m
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In this interview, Alan de Souza, the founder of Reachbox.ai, discusses how he built his AI-powered cold email outreach platform from zero to $6 million ARR in just 18 months. He highlights the platform's focus on hyper-personalization and solving the complexities of cold outreach for businesses. Alan shares growth str...

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Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula

12 Jun 2025
37m
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In this interview, John Rush discusses his journey building AI-driven tools and his approach to creating a suite of startups under his holding company, MarsX.dev. He shares that his company is currently generating $3.5 million ARR, with SEO Bot being the primary revenue driver at $120,000 MRR, managed by a team of two....

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How I Built my AI Tool SubMagic to $667k/Month With a Tiny Team and No Funding

10 Jun 2025
44m
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In this interview, David Zitoun, the founder of SubMagic.co, discusses the company's rapid growth to $8 million ARR in just three years with a small team of 13 people. He highlights the importance of simplicity in their product design, aiming for a "three-click" video editing experience. David credits their success to ...

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18 Year Old Got Paid $2.9m Last Month for New AI Mobile App

08 Jun 2025
20m
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The podcast features an interview with Zach Yadegari, the founder of CalAI, an app that tracks calories by analyzing pictures of food. Zach discusses CalAI's rapid growth, revealing that the company has already collected over $10 million in revenue in 2025 and is projecting over $35 million in the next 12 months. He at...

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GTM Fund gets better deal flow than you because they think like a Growth Team

11 Mar 2025
14m
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This podcast features an interview with Mohamed Yunus, founder and CEO of vPair, a virtual event platform. Yunus details vPair's growth from a virtual job fair platform to a comprehensive event management solution, achieving $30 million ARR in seven years. He attributes this success to a customer-centric approach, co...

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Scaling Smarter: 3 Lessons Learned From Scaling to $30m/yr in revenue in 2024

04 Mar 2025
9m
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This podcast segment focuses on explaining the concept of a growth flywheel versus a growth engine, particularly relevant for SaaS companies. The speaker, Sophie Buonassisi, VP of Marketing at GTM Fund and GTM Now, uses her company as a case study, illustrating how their fund, media brand, and community reinforce each...

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I spent $1m on Linkedin Ads and Added $3m of new Revenue, Paragon CMO

25 Feb 2025
19m
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This podcast episode focuses on a framework for effective LinkedIn advertising, particularly for B2B SaaS companies. The speaker, who has spent over $1 million on LinkedIn ads, outlines a pre-campaign process emphasizing a clearly defined Ideal Customer Profile (ICP), followed by a discussion of campaign strategy base...

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This CEO Does $50m/yr and is moving to a Flat Org Structure, ChiliPiper CEO

18 Feb 2025
16m
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This podcast features an interview with Alina Vandenberg of Chili Piper, a SaaS company focused on improving sales pipeline conversion. The interview covers Chili Piper's business model, including its various products and revenue, and delves into Vandenberg's unique approach to company culture, emphasizing a flat org...

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3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients, Wes Bush

11 Feb 2025
21m
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This podcast episode focuses on three product-led growth (PLG) strategies to boost self-serve revenue. The speaker, who previously authored a book on PLG, argues that successful PLG requires not only surface-level strategies (pricing models, onboarding) but also a strong "product-led organization." He details a "bulls...

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