Nathan Latka
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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Nathan Latka makes software-company economics legible by pressing founders for the numbers and decisions behind growth.
Nathan Latka turns founder interviews into compact operating examinations, pressing past company origin stories to ask about revenue, ownership, dilution, customer economics, acquisitions, and growth.
Nathan Latka asks for revenue, then the ownership question you were hoping nobody would ask.
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A practical founder conversation about moving from wireless charging to hybrid-work software without hiding the investor fallout.
Dan Bladen's conversation centers on the uncomfortable mechanics of a workplace software pivot. Cadence began in wireless charging before becoming a workplace management operations system for hybrid work, now serving about 600 companies including Boeing, Bombardier, Rolls-Royce,…
A grounded look at profitable construction SaaS, Armenian engineering, angel capital, and SEO-led growth.
Buildern's rise to roughly $2 million in revenue gives this single-episode review a useful operating lens on construction software. The conversation frames the product as a replacement for legacy tools, paperwork, and manual finance and workforce systems, while grounding the…
A practical review of how Allo links lead quality, sales strategy, and a $10 million revenue target.
Allo's path toward $10 million in revenue comes through as a practical story about making sales software work for companies beyond the enterprise tier.
TitanX turns acquisition structure into the clearest lens on its growth story.
TitanX's rise to $9.7 million in ARR comes through as a study in acquisition-led growth, not just founder momentum. Joey Gilkey frames the story around a $27 million raise and the $13 million FrontSpin deal, but the episode is strongest when it gets into the structure: $7…
A CEO explains how customer-funded growth can carry support software past $10 million.
TeamSupport's role as a B2B support-ticketing company with more than a thousand customers gives the episode a useful operating frame: how far can profitable growth take a software business?
A clear look at vertical SaaS built for pickleball venues.
Ben Borden makes a practical case for Podplay as a vertical SaaS layer for pickleball venues. The episode stays close to the operating math, with about 3 million in contracted ARR, a little over 200 locations, roughly 2,000 courts, and average revenue per hour near 30 dollars.
A founder-scale story about liquidity, control, and rebuilding a company through acquisitions.
Gary Guseinov's path through RealDefense feels less like a clean startup arc than a case study in timing, control, and capital. The episode follows the company from early growth to a public listing, then to a 2017 buyback, and finally into a second act shaped by acquisitions and…
Italian morning radio with a wide-angle clock.
Irish business news, tested against real costs.
Global builders, technology, capital, and social impact.
Nathan Latka interviews Gary Gusenev, CEO of Real Defense, who shares his journey from founding Cyber Defender in 2003 to scaling it to $70M revenue, taking it public, buying it back in 2017, and using debt-driven acquisitions to grow again.
Nathan Latka interviews Ben Borden, CEO of Podplay Technologies, about turning pickleball software into a $3M ARR SaaS business.
Dan Bladen says Cadence serves about 600 companies, including Boeing, Bombardier, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Revolut, and Willis Tower Watson, with pricing that starts at $48 per user per year and rises to about $80.
Nathan Latka interviews Mike Tigranian, CEO of Buildern, about scaling to $2M revenue and the construction management software market.
Jeremy Goyo says Allo serves about 5,000 customers, gets 750 signups a week, and converts above 35% of free trials to paid plans.
Nathan Latka interviews Joey Gilkey about his acquisition of IP for TitanX, a sales intelligence platform, discussing deal structure and company growth.
Grant Stannis says TeamSupport sells B2B customer-support software at about $99 per user for its AI package and turns tickets into retention and upsell signals.
Nathan Latka interviews Tal Kirscherbaum, CEO of Ledge, about his AI-native financial close platform and his journey from Meta and Melio to founding the company.
A SaaS founder shares a vulnerable story about business struggles and the decision to sell his company during a market downturn.
Host Nathan Latka interviews SaaS founders about their business metrics and growth strategies.
Nathan Latka interviews the founder of Boomerang about their PLG experiments and revenue growth.
Nathan Latka interviews Raitis Loris, CEO of Omnisend, about using SEO for customer acquisition and the company's journey to 50 million ARR.