The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship

David Shim sold his first startup for $200M, but when he started Read AI in 2021, he built something that failed spectacularly — 5% retention after 30 days. Instead of pivoting to chase revenue, he focused obsessively on fixing one metric: day-one ROI. Today, Read AI generates 8-figures in ARR, adds a million accounts

Kevin Wagstaff and his brother Michael turned a $5,000 investment into a $27 million ARR home inspection software business—without raising venture capital for the first six years. After nine months of customer research, they built Spectora by focusing on one philosophy: serve before selling. Kevin answered every suppor

Back in 2011, Sergiy Korolov's team accidentally sent 20,000 test billing emails to real customers—a complete disaster. They built a simple internal tool to prevent it from happening again, shared it with the Ruby on Rails community, and it exploded. Fast forward to today: Mailtrap generates seven-figure ARR with 100,0

Jonathan Kazarian built Accelevents to $10 million ARR working nights and weekends for five years while keeping his hedge fund day job. But when COVID hit just as he went full-time, every event worldwide got canceled and revenue dropped to zero – forcing him to borrow $75,000 from his father's retirement to survive. In

Richard Hollingsworth bootstrapped an executive assistant agency to $5M ARR, then pivoted to AI and grew from $1M to $18M ARR in just 8 months. Today, Fyxer serves thousands of professionals with their AI email assistant, and Richard's team has grown from 4 to 40 employees while raising over $40M. Richard and his broth

Bernard Aceituno went from PhD research at MIT to founding StackAI, a no-code AI platform that's now generating 7-figures in ARR with over 100 enterprise customers and $16M raised. In this episode, Bernard shares how he pivoted from academia to entrepreneurship, why his first product wasn't solving the right problem, a