Synopsis
Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews!The Top is FOR YOU IF you are:A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14). Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop
Episodes
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Turning a $500k Course Into a $20k MRR SaaS Play. Next Russell Brunson?
05/06/2021 Duration: 20minBuilt an Instagram agency by sending cold emails, transitioned into an agency that sends cold emails for other people, made a cold email course, then made software apps for those who bought the course and other cold emailers
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HRForecast Bootstrapped to $3m, Signed $300k Deal, How They Handle Profits
04/06/2021 Duration: 18min2014 I founded HRForecast (peopleForecast GmbH) together with Florian Fleischmann. Prior to joining HRForecast, I gained interdisciplinary industry experience in various finance and planning roles. I bring with me comprehensive, cross-industry expertise in solving strategic problems in complex, fast-moving environments. I studied business administration at the Technical University of Ingolstadt.
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Process Automation SaaS: From $600k Pivot to 300% YoY Growth, How Indico Turned the Corner
03/06/2021 Duration: 23minFounder and CTO of indico data solutions, an Enterprise AI solution for unstructured content with an emphasis on text and NLP. He has been building machine learning solutions for startups, governments, and Fortune 100 companies for the past 5 years and is a frequent speaker at AI conferences.
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He's stepping down as CEO. Strange move with $6.6m in Revenue?
02/06/2021 Duration: 22minStarted being an entrepreneur at 40 Co-founded Qualifio and a few other companies, including 87seconds (Europe's leading video content agency, sold in 2018 to Datawords) Will step down as Qualifio's CEO in July (and stay Active chairman) Based in Belgium but started my professional career at PwC in Washington DC Father of 2 sons
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LivingSecurity SaaS Breaks $3m ARR, 150% Retention, New Unify Product To Create More Insights for Security Leaders
01/06/2021 Duration: 19minAs the CEO of Living Security, Ashley has been the driving force behind the company’s rapid growth. Since its founding in 2017, Living Security has raised more than $20 million for growth and product development and accelerated revenue growth for three consecutive years. Ashley is also continually working to build a diverse and inclusive organization around the belief that the team should reflect the community at large. An adaptable problem solver, Ashley is thoughtful and transparent in her approach to running the company and working with clients toward a singular goal: reduce risk by making people a security asset instead of a liability.
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SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
31/05/2021 Duration: 22minAndrea Volpini is the CEO of WordLift, a visionary web entrepreneur, focusing on semantic web, artificial intelligence and SEO. WordLift is a semantic platform for online content developed by working at the intersection between semantic technologies, natural language processing, and search engine optimization. Andrea has 20+ years of world-class experience in online strategies and web publishing.
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Bootstrapped to $4m, $2m profits, Wants to Exit by End Of Year
30/05/2021 Duration: 22minAdam Robinson is a SaaS entrepreneur who lives in Austin, TX. After spending 10 years on Wall Street trading credit default swaps at Lehman Brothers, Adam started his first startup called Robly Email Marketing. Robly was bootstrapped, ranked #1 in customer satisfaction in 2017, the company distributed mid 7-figures and was sold for 8-figures. Adam’s current venture, GetEmails, helps its e-commerce and publishing customers identify their anonymous web traffic and retarget them over email. Adam launched GetEmails in November of 2019 and just crossed 4mm ARR with 6 full-time employees.
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13 Year Old Building Indie Builder Community, First $8 in Revenue!
29/05/2021 Duration: 17minHi! I'm Arav, I'm 13 years old and I'm building Indie Icebreakers,and Indie Rocket. I'm create content, and share Indie stories.
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How to Make Money On Top of Opensource Protocol with Linktree Alternative SingleLink
28/05/2021 Duration: 17minI'm a 22-year-old, formerly obese college dropout turned founder and triathlete. I've lost over 115lbs and completed races up to the 70.3 mi distance while I'm currently training for Ironman Florida (140.6 miles). Passionate about open-source, startups, and pushing myself to the limits.
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$20k Upwork Side Gig to $200k ARR SaaS Project Editing Real Estate Photos
27/05/2021 Duration: 17minFilipino by birth, architect by training, salesman by vocation, catholic by faith, family man by commitment, public speaker by demand, and a humanitarian by choice. After 3 heartbreaking business failures in his 20s in the Construction and outsourcing industry. He founded REVAstaff.com in 2018, then everything just fell into place.
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How his side project hit $200k in revenue, new way to A/B test pricing
26/05/2021 Duration: 15minCh Daniel (23) created Legit Check By Ch with his brother, David (17) and have gathered 6,000,000 all-time users. Their company helps people authenticate luxury items: clothing, sneakers, bags, watches etc. Currently they're making $200,000/year using the simple ""send order note"" function of an e-commerce system.
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Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
25/05/2021 Duration: 19minMike Adams is the CEO and Co-founder of Grain — a tool that empowers remote teams to record, transcribe, annotate, and share the most important moments from virtual meetings in a highlight reel. He previously co-founded Degreed and MissionU (Acq. by WeWork). Mike believes that recorded conversations and the spoken knowledge they generate fundamentally expand our ability to listen, empathize and connect with each other.
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1,000 Companies Pay List Buying Site $150/mo For New Leads, $1.8m in Revenue
24/05/2021 Duration: 16minJimmy Alamia is a professional digital marketer and "The New Age CMO", located in Essex County, New Jersey. Jimmy has been marketing on the internet since 1999 and has helped hundreds of clients grow their businesses by utilizing his proven marketing methodology. Jimmy Leads focuses on the building blocks of: Creating Goals, Formulating Strategy, Building World Class Assets, Executing Tactics & Media Activation, Aligning Marketing with Sales, and Testing, Measurement & KPI. Jimmy is the creator of MEGALEADS.COM and has worked with SMB and Enterprise companies such as AUTOMATCH, Comodo Cybersecurity, Momentum Solar, Sun Power Solar, NASDAQ, Pershing, Bear Stearns, Citibank, Bank of New York and Kraft General Foods. Jimmy has a B.S. in Mathematics from Pace University in New York City..
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Google Analytics Alternative Adds $23k in MRR in 12 Months, Open sourced!
23/05/2021 Duration: 18minCo-founder of Plausible Analytics, a simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Plausible is trusted by 3,000+ subscribers to deliver their website and business insights.
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Manage your Twitter from Notion? He's doing it, first 5 customers paying!
22/05/2021 Duration: 11minSenior Software Engineer, previously a fellow at Entrepreneur First, a global startup incubator, bootstrapping SaaS products for creators/makers in public
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Referral Program Software Growsurf Bootstrapped to $26k/mo in Revenue, Pricing Page Secrets
21/05/2021 Duration: 15minKevin Yun is cofounder of GrowSurf, referral software for tech startups. He's sharing their journey to $1MM publicly at https://growsurf.com/open as they bootstrap growth for their B2B SaaS. Previously, Kevin founded a UX/UI design bootcamp that was acquired by WeWork/Flatiron in 2018.
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Developer side project gets first 80 customers, $6k in ARR, how'd he do it?
20/05/2021 Duration: 15minI'm an unstoppable learner; currently learning how to build software businesses. I've built 3 products in the past that made $0 and have all been shut down. Launched Chime Social in January 2021, a Twitter scheduling and analytics tool, and first profitable product.
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Deep Fake Tech Pivoted from $0 Last Year, $24m Raised, CEO teases new round
19/05/2021 Duration: 20minGil is CEO & co-founder of D-ID, which he established in 2017 with his friends and fellow co-founders COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta. He has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments. Gil has commanding experience in a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.
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With 1 Exit Done, Can He Automate Diligence for Financial Firms Using RPA?
18/05/2021 Duration: 16minVik Singh is currently the CEO and Co-Founder of a new enterprise AI startup. Vik was the CEO and Co-Founder of Infer, a company that provides a predictive platform for helping businesses win more customers. Infer was acquired by Ignite. Previously, Vik was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures (SHV). Before SHV, Vik helped create and architect Yahoo! BOSS, an open search platform that runs over 1 billion queries a month. He also worked at Google and Microsoft, helping ship Google Custom Search and Windows XP SP2 Wireless. At Microsoft Research, he worked under Turing Award winner Dr. Jim Gray. MIT’s Technology Review listed him as one of the Top 35 under 35 Innovators. Vik has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Wired, Technology Review, Business Insider and CRM Magazine. He also occasionally writes for TechCrunch and VentureBeat. He's been a guest speaker at Stanford and Berkeley - as well as designs and teaches computer science and entrepreneurship classes at UC Berk
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Divvy Founder Sees Clear Path to $100m, 20k Customers, Most Revenue from CC fees, $1b+ in GMV
17/05/2021 Duration: 25minAlex is co-founder of DIvvy. He enjoys into Sports, Seattle, Salt Lake, Skiing, and Start-ups. He also enjoys building cutting edge fin-tech platform that will literally change the way businesses spend their money.