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How do you survive shutting down during the pandemic, pivot a heavily funded business model, and rebuild a team of 8 into a $4M ARR AI powerhouse? Miles Beckett is the CEO of Flossy, a verticalized AI receptionist that automates patient booking and engagement for dental practices. After successfully building and exiting two previous startups for tens of millions, Miles raised a $15M Series A for a dental discount plan. When the market shifted, he pivoted the company entirely to voice AI, made hard cuts to the team, and found explosive product-market fit. Today, Flossy is growing 60 to 70 percent month over month. You'll learn: Why vertical AI agents beat general tools like Intercom  How to sell $500/month software to PE-backed roll-ups  The reality of firing 30 people to save a company's burn rate  How a $1 million breakup fee saved a past acquisition deal  Why they rejected a theoretical $40 million buyout  The math behind adding $100,000 in new ARR each month  How they used a $3M seed round to survive 2020

How do you pivot a banned college ridesharing app into a voice AI company handling 300 million customer service calls? Brian Schiff is the co-founder and CEO of Flip, a verticalized AI voice assistant that automates customer service calls for transportation, retail, and healthcare brands. After realizing their Cornell ridesharing app was a dead end, Brian and his co-founder Sam pivoted into voice AI. Today, Flip automates up to 90 percent of routine support calls for over 250 enterprise companies and recently raised a $20M Series A at a $100M valuation. You'll learn: How to successfully pivot a failing startup model Why verticalized AI beats horizontal platforms How to implement usage-based pricing at $1.50 per call Why "listen mode" is their best sales tactic How to maintain 75 percent gross margins with AI Why they rejected a theoretical $150 million acquisition offer How to select the right industries for expansion Why competitive B2C markets are best for AI tools Brian started his entrepreneurial journe

How do you completely reboot a dying hardware startup, restructure a heavy cap table, and pivot into a SaaS product doing $15M ARR? Dan Bladen is the co-founder and CEO of Kadence, a workplace operations system coordinating people and spaces for hybrid work. After realizing his wireless charging startup was a "vitamin, not a painkiller," Dan pivoted during the pandemic to help companies like Nasdaq, Revolut, and Boeing manage their office space. Today, Kadence serves over 600 enterprise customers. You'll learn: How to manage board expectations during a hard pivot  The exact mechanics of resetting a cap table for new investors Why shifting from SMB to enterprise accelerated revenue How they achieved over 130 percent net dollar retention Why seat-based pricing still works in the enterprise The math behind saving half a billion dollars in leasing costs How launching SpaceOps AI drives multi-product expansion Why high-ticket dinners replaced SEO for customer acquisition Dan started his career managing technolog

How do you build a construction SaaS to $2M in revenue with just $500K raised and get 95% of growth from SEO? Hmayak Tigranyan is the founder and CEO of Buildern, a construction management software platform serving around 300 customers and generating roughly $2M in revenue today. The company helps residential and commercial builders manage finances and workflows, and it is doing about $160K in monthly revenue with roughly $40K in monthly profit. What makes this business interesting is that it scaled in a legacy industry without paid acquisition or outbound. Buildern built an inbound engine around high-intent SEO, stayed profitable, and is only now adding a sales team as ACV moves closer to the range that can support quota-carrying reps. You'll learn: How Buildern found an underserved construction software niche. Why Hmayak shut down a $3M dev shop to go all in on SaaS. How the company raised just $500K and sold only 10%. What $160K in monthly revenue looks like at a $40K profit level. Why 95% of revenue ca

How do you grow an AI phone system to 5,000 customers and roughly $3M ARR in under two years while still aiming for $10M in revenue this year? Jeremy Goillot is the founder and CEO of The Mobile First Company, which launched Allo as its first product. Allo is an AI phone system and dialer for small businesses, now serving around 5,000 customers with average revenue above $160 per month and a goal of reaching $10M in revenue in 2026. This business is interesting because Jeremy did not stop at a self-serve PLG motion. He started there, saw the churn and activation issues, then layered in demos, lead routing, CRM-based qualification, and expansion to raise ACV and improve retention. The result is a high-volume SMB SaaS business built on strong distribution, fast onboarding, and clear activation metrics. You'll learn: Why Jeremy moved from pure PLG to a sales-assisted motion. How Allo increased average revenue from $18 to over $160 per month. The exact activation metric that predicts churn. How the team uses dem

How do you turn $200K into a $9.7M ARR SaaS company with a $100M valuation by buying IP instead of building from scratch? Joey Gilkey is the founder of TitanX, a sales intelligence platform generating $9.7M ARR after launching in 2024. The company serves enterprise sales teams with contracts ranging from $24K to $250K annually, with its largest deals exceeding seven figures. What makes TitanX interesting is its approach to building a moat. Instead of competing as another data provider, the company sits between data sources and execution layers, using proprietary signals and AI to improve outbound performance. The business scales through high ACV sales, expansion revenue, and strategic acquisitions. You'll learn: How Joey turned a $200K IP purchase into a $100M company Why buying IP can be faster than building SaaS products How TitanX structures pricing from $24K to $250K ACV The role of proprietary data in building defensibility How inbound, outbound, and referrals drive pipeline Why expansion revenue is c

How do you grow a customer support SaaS to over 1,000 customers and $10M–$25M in ARR in one of the most crowded software categories, without trying to outspend the giants on marketing? In this episode, Nathan sits down with Grant Stanis, CEO of TeamSupport. The company provides B2B customer support software used by more than 1,000 companies and generates between $10M and $25M in annual recurring revenue. Most customers start around $10,000 per year, but the best accounts expand significantly over time, including enterprise customers paying more than $1M annually. Customer support software is a brutally competitive market with players like Zendesk and Freshdesk dominating search and advertising. Instead of fighting that battle, TeamSupport focused on referrals, community, and expansion revenue. The core idea is simple: turn support conversations into signals that drive retention, product feedback, and upsells. You'll learn: How TeamSupport grew to $10M–$25M ARR with over 1,000 customers. Why most customers s

How do you rebuild a declining cybersecurity company into a $70M revenue platform with ~$25M EBITDA after buying it back for under $10M, while scaling primarily through acquisitions and debt instead of venture capital? Gary Guseinov is the CEO of Realdefense, a consumer cybersecurity and privacy platform that generates roughly $70M in annual revenue with $20–25M in EBITDA. Gary originally founded the business in 2003 as Cyber Defender, grew it to $70M in revenue, took it public, then later bought the company back in 2017 when it had declined to about $7M ARR. Today, Realdefense operates as a platform of security and privacy products that monetize partner user bases through software subscriptions, telemetry-driven product offers, and cross-sell expansion. The company has completed six acquisitions since the buyback and now scales growth through a capital-efficient M&A strategy instead of traditional venture capital. What makes this business interesting is its unconventional growth model. Instead of buildin

How do you build an AI SaaS company to $1M+ ARR with just a few dozen customers and raise a Series A at a 20x+ revenue multiple while competing against general-purpose AI tools? Tal Kirschenbaum is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ledge, an AI-native financial close platform helping finance teams automate the month-end close process. Just three years after writing the first line of code, Ledge has reached $1M+ ARR with ~24–36 customers paying roughly $3K per month, while targeting 300% year-over-year growth with a team of ~35 employees. What makes this story interesting is how narrowly the product is positioned. Instead of building a generic "AI for finance" tool, Ledge focuses on a painful operational workflow: the month-end close process for mid-market and enterprise finance teams. The pricing is not seat-based. Instead, revenue scales with operational complexity — entities, currencies, and integrations — creating a natural ACV expansion motion as customers grow.   You'll learn: - Why Ledge targets finance teams w

How do you turn a failed public ecommerce company into a $5M ARR enterprise SaaS platform serving ~$2M+ contracts — while rebuilding with capital efficiency after bankruptcy and avoiding the growth-at-all-costs playbook? In this episode, Nathan sits down with Jared Yaman, co-founder of Spresso and former founder of Boxed, the bulk ecommerce company that scaled to $187M in revenue before its IPO and eventual Chapter 11 restructuring. Today, Jared leads Spresso, the enterprise ecommerce software platform spun out of Boxed, now serving roughly 15 enterprise customers worldwide and growing ARR from $2.5M at spinout in 2023 to about $5M in 2025 through large ACV enterprise contracts. What makes this story interesting is the transition from low-margin ecommerce operations to high-margin enterprise SaaS. Boxed generated hundreds of millions in revenue but operated on ~4–5% contribution margins. Spresso keeps the infrastructure, data, and enterprise relationships — but monetizes them through implementation fees and m

How do you turn a niche offline sports business into $3M in contracted ARR across 200 locations, while raising $8M and keeping pricing simple on a per-unit basis? Ben Borton is the Co-Founder of PodPlay Technologies, a vertical SaaS platform powering pickleball and racquet sport venues. What started as internal software for his own ping pong spaces is now a $3M contracted ARR business serving 200 locations and roughly 2,000 courts, with ACVs ranging from $10k–$15k and an $8M Series A completed in 2025. This business is interesting because it didn't start as software. Ben built PodPlay to solve utilization and operations inside his own physical venues, where courts generated $30 per hour at 70% utilization. The SaaS product is now growing faster than the brick-and-mortar business — proving that real-world operational pain can be the most durable GTM wedge in vertical software.   You'll learn: — How Ben validated the SaaS by first using it inside a venue doing $100k–$400k in annual revenue — The exact per-court

How do you build a vertical SaaS company to ~$50M ARR serving 6M homes — after bootstrapping to $5–10M without outside capital — and then 10x with a minority PE round instead of giving up control? Ben Currin is the CEO of Vantaca, a vertical SaaS platform powering community association management companies. Since launching in 2018, Vantaca has grown to ~500 customers managing 50,000 communities and 6M homes, scaling from low six figures in 2018 to ~$1M in 2019, $5–10M by 2022, and roughly 10x revenue since taking minority investment. This is not a trendy market. HOA management is fragmented, operationally complex, and historically under-served by modern software. Vantaca didn't win with viral PLG or heavy paid acquisition. They went top-down enterprise, priced per door, embedded payments and treasury, and built the general ledger system of record for an entire industry. You'll learn: — How to identify "sneaky big" vertical SaaS markets hiding in unsexy industries. — Why per-door pricing became the north star

How do you scale a vertical SaaS platform to $12M ARR while navigating the aggressive valuation overhang of 2021 and a founding team transition. Matt Spiegel is building Lawmatics into a dominant legal CRM by leveraging a serial founder playbook that prioritizes high ARPU and agentic AI over traditional SaaS metrics. Matt Spiegel is the founder and CEO of Lawmatics, a legal marketing and CRM platform serving over 2,000 law firms. The company currently generates over $1M in monthly revenue with an average ACV of $5,000. After raising $25M in total capital, Matt has maintained roughly 20% ownership while driving the business toward profitability and a potential $240M+ valuation. This business is a case study in the evolution of vertical SaaS and the transition from simple automation to agentic AI. Lawmatics successfully moved from an initial $60 monthly price point to a $400 ARPU by aligning pricing with high-value legal intake data. Matt provides a rare, transparent look at the mechanics of Series A extensions

Siddharth Sinha is the co-founder and CEO of Dresma, an AI-powered platform helping global brands create studio-quality e-commerce imagery, videos, and localized content at scale. Launched in 2020, Dresma helps brands like Puma localize product imagery across markets using AI models, data intelligence, and automated workflows. The company now serves ~28 customers, generates ~$2M ARR, and has grown profitably with a lean team of 31 people. In this episode, Siddharth explains Dresma's usage-based pricing model, how studio partnerships drive over 50% of revenue, and how the company expanded enterprise customers up to $500K per year—while keeping infrastructure costs and CAC under control. You'll learn: How Dresma helps brands localize content globally using AI Why usage-based pricing outperformed seat-based or product upsells How studio partnerships became a major growth channel What percent of revenue goes to LLM credits (and why it works) How free tools drive SEO and enterprise lead generation Dre

How do you grow a nearly $5M ARR SaaS with just 2 sales reps, while staying bootstrapped and capital efficient? Raf Howery is the founder and CEO of Kukun, a B2B property data platform powering white-labeled tools for banks, fintechs, and insurers. After quitting a $1M/year consulting role, he built Kukun to serve ~25 enterprise clients, each paying $10K–$50K/month. The team now processes ~500,000 property addresses monthly across a growing suite of data-driven products. What makes this business especially compelling is the dual monetization model: a B2C experience that acts as a PLG wedge, and a B2B monetization layer through usage-based pricing for banks and lenders. Kukun's go-to-market evolved from realtor hand-to-hand distribution to landing multi-product deals with top financial institutions. You'll learn: —How Raf uses white-label distribution to monetize banks and fintechs —Why bundling multiple products improves ACV and deal velocity —How product-led growth drives enterprise adoption through homeown

How do you scale a digital document tool to $15M ARR with 28,000 customers—without raising a dollar of VC? Gabriel Ciordas did it by going deep on SEO, mastering self-serve onboarding, and closing six-figure enterprise contracts—all while owning 100% of the business.   Gabriel Ciordas is the founder and CEO of Flipsnack, a digital magazine and brochure platform. Since launching in 2011, he's grown the company to $15M in ARR, with 28,000 paying customers and a pricing range that spans from $16/month self-serve plans to $200,000/year enterprise deals.   Flipsnack operates in a surprisingly large and overlooked market: digital collateral for internal and external business communications. The company's strength lies in a dual-motion GTM strategy—self-serve for the long tail, and custom pricing for enterprise accounts. Despite a small sales team, the business is expanding into high-ACV deals thanks to its early SEO moat and product simplicity.   You'll learn: — How Flipsnack converts 160,000+ monthly SEO clicks in

Volie quietly hit $1.2M in monthly revenue ($14M+ per year) selling BDC communication software to car dealerships — fully bootstrapped. In this episode, Scott Davis (President & Co-Founder) breaks down how Volie scaled from 4 customers in 2017 to powering 2,000 dealership rooftops across 300 store groups, all while maintaining a 16% profit margin and retaining ~85% ownership — plus whether he'd take $70M cash for 60% of the business. What You'll Learn How Volie scaled from 4 customers to $14M/year without raising capital Why selling into car dealerships is a powerful (and overlooked) SaaS niche How Volie prices dealerships and store groups to reach $1.2M MRR The economics behind a profitable, quota-carrying sales team How Scott thinks about AI, growth, and a potential $70M acquisition offer  

Sabari Nair, co-founder and CEO of Skillveri, joins Nathan to break down how he's scaling a VR-powered vocational training platform to $1.5M ARR today, serving 100+ schools in the U.S., with $350K enterprise contracts — and why he believes immersive training plus SaaS pricing is the future of skilled labor education. In this episode, Sabari explains how Skillveri combines VR software subscriptions, hardware add-ons, and a reseller-led GTM motion to win in a category traditionally dominated by $30K+ one-time simulation vendors.   You'll learn: — How Skillveri sells VR training software starting at $4K/year per school — Why their largest customer pays $350K annually (and how they plan to reach $1M contracts) — The SaaS + hardware hybrid model driving 60% recurring revenue — Why schools (not industry) are the wedge into a massive skills market — How reseller partnerships replaced direct sales across the U.S. — The commission structure that motivates resellers without killing margins — Why in-person demos beat co

In this episode, we sit down with Andrew Fennell, founder of Standout CV, to unpack how he built and scaled a resume-builder SaaS to over 18 million organic visitors, $30K MRR, and $1M+ in lifetime revenue — without venture funding. Andrew walks through his SEO-first go-to-market strategy, pricing evolution, churn reduction, and the exact content and link-building tactics that helped him win in an ultra-competitive space. This episode is a masterclass in bootstrapped SaaS growth, monetization, and acquisition efficiency. _________________________________________________________________________________ What You'll Learn Founder Story How a recruitment background led to a SaaS opportunity Transitioning from services to scalable software Bootstrapping vs. raising capital Pricing & Revenue Why one-time payments killed LTV Switching to subscriptions to unlock recurring revenue Using low-friction paid trials to boost conversion GTM / Outbound SEO as the core go-to-market motion Why content b

Vlad Malanin, MD, PhD and co-founder of SpeedSize, shares how he scaled an AI-powered media optimization SaaS from $400K to $6M ARR with just 25 employees. SpeedSize helps enterprise and mid-market brands deliver high-quality images and video without sacrificing site performance, serving over 200 global customers. In this episode, Vlad breaks down SpeedSize's capital-efficient growth strategy, enterprise pricing model, partnership-led GTM motion, and the hard founder decisions required to survive near-zero runway during wartime—while maintaining low churn, strong expansion revenue, and founder control. NOTES: Founder background Surgeon turned AI scientist and CTO Forbes Technology Council member Ukrainian-Israeli founding team navigating geopolitical risk Company overview AI-powered image and video compression for rich media websites Focus on preserving visual quality while improving load speed Core customers: fashion, apparel, marketplaces, travel, jewelry Revenue & growth $400K