Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFreemium SaaS Playbook: From Free to 1M Users
Episode 13
Kirk Simpson built a freemium SaaS product in a market where 70% of potential customers were still using spreadsheets and shoeboxes. Within three yea…
11 years, 4 months ago
Starting a SaaS: How Canva Hit 800K Users in Year One
Episode 12
Melanie Perkins spent seven years turning a university side project into one of the fastest-growing design platforms ever built. Starting a SaaS from…
11 years, 4 months ago
SaaS Marketplace Lessons From 15 People to $1B
Episode 11
oDesk was manually screening every freelancer before they could join the SaaS marketplace. With a backlog of 5,000 workers and only 40 getting throug…
11 years, 4 months ago
Self-Serve SaaS: How Wrike Reached 6,000 Customers
Episode 10
No sales team. No personal network. Strangers found it, tried it, paid for it. Andrew Filev deliberately avoided friends-and-family sales and let Wri…
11 years, 5 months ago
SaaS Fundraising: How Sahil Lavingia Raised $8M for Gumroad
Episode 9
Built in a weekend. 50,000 visitors on Monday. Zero dollars spent on marketing. Sahil Lavingia built the first version of Gumroad over a single weeke…
11 years, 5 months ago
Freemium SaaS: How Peldi Built Balsamiq to $6M Solo
Episode 8
Built alone in a kitchen. First sale before launch day. Peldi Guilizzoni coded Balsamiq Mockups from 8pm to midnight while working at Adobe. Four day…
11 years, 5 months ago
SaaS SEO: From Side Project to 1500 Paying Customers
Episode 7
Side project. Full-time job. Three fired developers. Ruben Gamez built Bidsketch while working as a web development manager, using SaaS SEO and SaaS …
11 years, 5 months ago
Bootstrapped SaaS: $10K to $80K/Month in 4 Months
Episode 6
No web experience. No business background. No college degree. Brian Gardner was a project manager at an architectural firm when he launched his first…
11 years, 5 months ago
SaaS Sales Strategy: Pre-Sold $70K With No Product
Episode 5
No product. No code. No technical skills. Nathan Latka was a 21-year-old college student when he started cold calling for SaaS customers on Facebook,…
11 years, 5 months ago
Inbound Marketing SaaS: Neil Patel Built a $1M Blog
Episode 4
$10,000 in ads. 10,000 email signups. Before the product even launched. Neil Patel used targeted CSS gallery ads to build Crazy Egg's pre-launch list…
11 years, 5 months ago