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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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How I Used 1 Linkedin Post to Generate $1,000,000 in Pipeline and Closed $250,000 in new ARR

04 Jul 2024
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This podcast episode emphasizes the importance of understanding customer motivations and desires in order to unlock significant revenue growth opportunities. The speaker shares examples of identifying lucrative opportunities by uncovering what customers are truly buying and highlights the value of understanding custome...

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$6m ARR CEO Shares When to Hire First AE, CSM, and VP

02 Jul 2024
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This podcast episode explores the key aspects of hiring strategies for SaaS founders. It discusses the importance of key hires for reaching revenue milestones and examines the hiring timeline for different roles. The significance of aptitude and attitude in hiring decisions is emphasized, along with the importance of e...

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How This CEO Used Webinars - 45% show up rate - to Hit $8m in Revenue

27 Jun 2024
11m
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This podcast episode explores Goldcast's journey from 2 to 8 million in revenue using a video and digital event-based strategy. The speaker highlights the competition in the crowded SaaS industry and explains why Goldcast adopted this unique approach. They discuss the challenges of selling in a crowded market and the e...

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How This SaaS Product Studio Built 3 Tools and Did $16m in Revenue Last Year

25 Jun 2024
14m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges and benefits of working with data and emphasizes the importance of a data-driven approach in business. The speaker, Jaroslav, shares his experiences and lessons learned from his company's growth and highlights the practical steps to understand and utilize data effectively. T...

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Founder Does $18m in 2023 Revenue Following 9 Strange SaaS Playbooks

20 Jun 2024
20m
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This podcast episode explores the key learnings and considerations for startups in scaling their businesses. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on a specific vertical, such as the media industry, and refraining from expanding too quickly into other verticals. The episode also highlights the significance of custom...

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Lemlist Product Genius Shares Strategy, $23,000,000 in Sales (ARR), No Outside Funding

18 Jun 2024
21m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of the "all-bound" strategy, which combines inbound and outbound approaches to help businesses grow and establish their brand. The speaker emphasizes the importance of creating a memorable brand that differentiates from competitors and stands out in the saturated market. They a...

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$50m Bootstrapped CEO Shares His First SEO Hire, Growth Tactics and Playbook

13 Jun 2024
19m
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This podcast episode explores the marketing automation platform OmniSend and its approach to SEO. The speakers discuss the competitive environment of email marketing and the importance of revenue as the primary metric in SEO. They emphasize the significance of link building and acquiring backlinks, as well as the impor...

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Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All

11 Jun 2024
18m
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This podcast episode discusses the lessons learned in scaling a knowledge work automation company, mFiles. The CFO and COO of mFiles share their experiences in team building, tooling, leadership mistakes, and the importance of fitting the team to the stage of the business. They also emphasize the significance of scalin...

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This $100m ARR Company Is Making a Major Change to their Q3 2024 Marketing Strategy

04 Jun 2024
22m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of efficient growth and the steps companies can take to achieve it. It discusses the growth journey of Typeform, a company that helps organizations gather important information through surveys and forms. The episode emphasizes the importance of providing a great respondent expe...

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How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)

30 May 2024
21m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges faced by SaaS founders in the current market, known as the "SaaSpocalypse." It discusses the evolution of the SaaS industry, the emergence of the modern data stack, and the importance of understanding market trends and making strategic decisions to succeed. The episode share...

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Coro Announces $100m Live on the Show, Their Partnership Playbook

28 May 2024
23m
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This podcast episode explores the importance of channel partnerships in the cybersecurity industry, specifically targeting mid-market companies. The speaker highlights their company's journey to explosive growth by leveraging the channel and emphasizes the uniqueness of their product. They discuss the challenges of sel...

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How to 3x your revenue with 3 simple pricing changes

23 May 2024
19m
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This podcast episode explores how a company utilized data and made strategic changes to their go-to-market strategy in order to double their revenue and overcome challenges in their pipeline generation. By widening their aperture and targeting larger companies, they experienced a longer sales cycle and the need to work...

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Want $100m in revenue? Copy these lessons from ZenBusiness CEO Ross Buhrdorf

21 May 2024
28m
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This podcast episode features an interview with Ross, the founder of ZenBusiness, a SaaS platform that offers comprehensive solutions for small businesses. The interview discusses ZenBusiness's success and customer-centric approach, as well as their journey from a PLG motion to adjusting their pricing strategy. The imp...

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13 Lessons I Learned Bootstrapping to $20m in Revenues

16 May 2024
22m
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This podcast episode explores the concept of building billion-dollar bootstrapped SaaS companies and emphasizes the need for a different playbook and methodology tailored to the needs of bootstrapped companies. It highlights the benefits of remote work, the importance of measuring and managing key metrics, and the sign...

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How I hit $15m ARR using 4 new growth playbooks

14 May 2024
18m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges faced by a founder when the company has product-market fit but is struggling financially. The speaker shares their experience of aggressively cutting expenses and taking ownership of the company's future to demonstrate to investors that they don't need a fundraise. They also...

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We hit $100m in revenue: 9 Lessons I Learned the hard way

09 May 2024
22m
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This podcast episode explores the valuable lessons learned from scaling a business from $1 million to $100 million. The speaker emphasizes the importance of team dynamics, shared values, and organizational structures in the early phase and growth of a company. They highlight strategies for setting up cadences, creating...

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We hit 4 Scaling Crisis between $0 and $70m ARR, here's how I solved them

07 May 2024
23m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of scaling a business and the significance of mentorship and a strong support network in the process. The episodes highlights the importance of approaching the journey with a fresh perspective, seeking mentors for guidance, and investing in infrastructure and technology. It als...

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3 Growth Tactics we Used to grow SEMRush to $330m ARR and Why Shares dropped 20% on IPO day

02 May 2024
25m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of a SaaS company founder, discussing their revenue growth, pricing strategy, journey towards an IPO, and monetization tactics. The conversation highlights the value of an affiliate program in driving revenue and spreading product awareness, the importance of a good product and...

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Was my $22m ARR bootstrapped good enough? I felt pressure to be a unicorn, tried, and failed miserably

30 Apr 2024
21m
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This podcast episode explores the entrepreneurial journey of Nathan Latka, the importance of bootstrapping, the use of Facebook ads for startup growth, unconventional cold email strategies, scaling companies, pivoting to B2B, and the significance of audience building and marketing presence for startup success. Latka sh...

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How I Turned my Podcast into a $50m ARR B2B SaaS

25 Apr 2024
21m
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This podcast episode explores the journey of Gregory Galant, from podcasting to founding MuckRack, a platform that allows users to find journalists and their contact information. The episode discusses the evolution of MuckRack from a free directory for journalists to a million-dollar SaaS business, highlighting the com...

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