The SaaS Podcast - Real Lessons on Growing Profitable SaaS

The SaaS Podcast - Real Lessons on Growing Profitable SaaS

Author: Omer Khan Language: English Episodes: 100
For anyone building a software company, the journey from an idea to a sustainable business is filled with specific, often daunting, questions. The SaaS Podcast-AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders exists to answer those with concrete stories, not abstract advice. Each week, host Omer Khan sits down with founders who have actually done it-they discuss the messy reality of securing those first few customers, the difficult adjustments needed to find true product-market fit, and the tactical decisions behind scaling to and beyond a million dollars in annual revenue. Conversations delve into the nitty-gritty of pricing models, sales processes, reducing churn, and the practical application of AI in a SaaS context. Omer’s perspective is shaped by having personally coached over a hundred and fifty founders past critical revenue milestones and conducting interviews with more than five hundred others. This depth of experience means every episode cuts straight to actionable insights, whether you’re painstakingly bootstrapping toward ten thousand in monthly recurring revenue or managing the complexities of rapid growth. The focus is relentlessly on proven strategies that have worked in the real world. Tuning into this podcast feels like gaining access to a private mastermind, a resource where thousands of other founders gather weekly to learn from the honest successes and setbacks of their peers.
Episodes
SaaS Sales Process: From Failed Outbound to 7-Figures [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:15
Lars Gronnegaard left Trustpilot with a clear SaaS sales process plan. Then reality hit. His first 10 customers looked nothing like the ICP. Cold outreach needed 180 days to show results. It took a LinkedIn content strat…
B2B SaaS Sales: 5 Years to Build What Oracle Said Was Impossible [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:54
Thomas Cottereau spent five years building what Oracle's engineers said was technically impossible. When he demoed the B2B SaaS sales platform at Salesforce, a lead engineer tested every feature by midnight and emailed:…
Consultative Selling SaaS: 1,500 Demos to $19M ARR [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:44
Andrew Guttormsen did over 1,500 one-on-one demos in 18 months - consultative selling SaaS the hard way. That personal touch turned Circle into a $19M ARR business. A single JV webinar with anchor customers like Pat Flyn…
Selling SaaS Without Sales Experience: $2K to $25K [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:05
Adam Gavish had never sold anything in his life. As a Google PM, he had to become DoControl's first SDR - selling SaaS without sales experience. He pitched 22 VCs in one week (21 said no), landed a first customer at $2K/…
Enterprise SaaS: From Rejection to Raising $72M [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:08
An investor told Stephany Lapierre she would never raise capital. She had three kids, no tech background, and no co-founder. But she flipped that rejection into fuel, raised $72M in startup funding for TealBook, and buil…
Scaling SaaS: $52K Investment to $22M ARR With SEO [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:00
Jared Brown invested $52,000 with a stranger he met on LinkedIn. Eleven years later, Hubstaff generates $22M in ARR and SEO is still the engine scaling SaaS to 16,000 customers. COVID doubled revenue from $6M to $12M in…
SaaS Retention: How Narrowing Your Niche Reignites Growth [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:32
Brennan Dunn raised $500K, grew RightMessage to $35K MRR in a year, then watched it all slide backward. For two years, SaaS retention flatlined and both co-founders lost motivation. The SaaS churn problem was clear - too…
Enterprise Sales: Partner-First Strategy to 4,000 Customers [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:17
Simon Taylor showed up at Nutanix headquarters wearing a bright white jacket with a red carnation - and nobody knew who he was. A year later, his enterprise sales through that partner-first strategy had delivered thousan…
SaaS Partnerships: $230K MRR With Zero Paid Marketing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:47
Ian Brodie and his co-founder quit their jobs in March 2020, got laughed out of every VC meeting, and built a services business instead. After selling it for a mid-7-figure deal, they launched Levanta and hit $230K MRR i…
Self-Serve SaaS: From VR Failure to 7-Figure PLG [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:53
Vlad Gozman spent two years building a VR product nobody wanted. Then he pivoted into one of the most crowded markets in SaaS - form builders - and grew a self-serve SaaS to 7-figure ARR with a 14-person team. Content ma…

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