Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI SaaS: Escaping the Consulting Trap to Hit $1M ARR
Episode 463
$150K ARR. Customers never logged in. They'd call with a question, get an answer, and disappear. Ibby Syed spent 18 months building what he thought w…
3 months ago
Freemium SaaS: Millions of Users to 7-Figure ARR
Episode 462
First paying customer: $8 a month for a fantasy football league. Bilal Aijazi's freemium SaaS grew to millions of monthly active users and 7-figure A…
3 months, 1 week ago
Bootstrapped SaaS to 8-Figure Exit With No VC Funding
Episode 461
4,000 pound WordPress plugin. No tech skills. No VC funding. 8-figure exit. James Ashford built GoProposal as a bootstrapped SaaS for accountants and…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
SaaS Pricing: Zero Revenue From One Costly Mistake
Episode 460
Usage-based SaaS pricing with no minimums. Customers could scale to zero without leaving. Ryan Wang launched Assembled with a pricing model that let …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bootstrapped SaaS: $400K to $30M ARR With Zero Funding
Episode 459
$50 million exit already in the bag. But Sam Darawish chose to bootstrap his next SaaS with just $400K. He didn't pay himself for two years. He showe…
4 months ago
Product-Led Growth: 8-Figure ARR With $0 Ad Spend
Episode 458
$200M exit. CEO of Foursquare. Then David Shim bet everything on product-led growth with zero ad spend. The first version flopped - just 5% of users …
4 months, 1 week ago
First Customers: 200 Free Websites to $27M ARR
Episode 457
50-70 year old customers who hated vendors, distrusted cloud software, and refused monthly subscriptions. Kevin Wagstaff won his first customers by b…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
SaaS Product-Market Fit: 200K Users With Zero Marketing
Episode 456
20,000 test billing emails sent to real customers. Total chaos. Sergiy Korolov's team built a quick fix - and accidentally discovered SaaS product-ma…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Bootstrapped SaaS Growth: Two Revenue Crashes to $10M
Episode 455
Five years of 60-hour weeks. Nights and weekends. Then COVID wiped out every customer overnight. Jonathan Kazarian's bootstrapped SaaS growth story i…
5 months ago
AI-Powered SaaS: 6 Years of Service Data to $18M ARR
Episode 454
Six years of logging every task. Thousands of hours of executive assistant data. Richard Hollingsworth turned proprietary agency logs into an AI-powe…
5 months, 1 week ago