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17:40

How Flossy Reached $4M ARR With AI Dental Receptionists

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2026/04/29

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

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24:34

Flip Reaches $12M ARR with AI Voice Support for 250...

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2026/04/22

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

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20:32

Kadence Reaches $15M ARR Managing Hybrid Work for...

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2026/04/15

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

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18:03

How Buildern Reached $2M Revenue With 300 Customers |...

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2026/04/08

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

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22:36

How Allo Reached $10M Revenue With 5,000 Customers

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2026/04/01

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

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15:40

How TitanX Hit $9.7M ARR After Buying IP for $200K

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2026/03/25

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

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16:07

How TeamSupport Reached $10M–$25M ARR With 1,000...

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2026/03/18

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

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24:03

From $7M to $70M Revenue: How RealDefense Scaled...

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2026/03/14

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

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26:52

How Ledge Reached $1M ARR with 24 Customers Paying...

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2026/03/05

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

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28:11

From $187M Ecommerce to $5M ARR SaaS: Spresso's...

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2026/02/26

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

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25:21

He Turned Pickleball Software into a $3M/yr SaaS

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2026/02/18

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

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22:49

Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS |...

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2026/02/12

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

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29:41

How to Scale to $12M ARR: The Serial Founder Playbook...

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2026/02/04

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

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23:14

How Dresma Hit $2M ARR With Usage-Based Pricing &...

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2026/01/29

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

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25:43

Bootstrapping to $5M ARR: How Kukun Scales SaaS for...

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2026/01/21

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

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23:06

Bootstrapped to $15M ARR: How Flipsnack Scaled...

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2026/01/14

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

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23:43

How He Scaled a Niche SaaS to $14M/Year With No Funding

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2026/01/07

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

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20:14

From $500K to $1.5M ARR: Bootstrapping VR SaaS for...

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2025/12/31

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+

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25:34

Founder uses Genius Playbook to hit $1M revenue with...

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2025/12/24

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

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25:29

Bootstrapping Through War to $6M ARR: A SaaS Founder...

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2025/12/17

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

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