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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YetiCloud Does $280k in First Year Revenue Selling DevOp tool
22/07/2020 Duration: 13minFounder and CEO of YetiCloud, Tim is a software engineer who recently left Capital One’s Tech Fellow program to make IT service desks non-existent. Tim has over ten years of experience in large-scale operations, product, and open source communities. Before founding YetiCloud, he worked for Puppet, FINRA, and the US Navy.
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QuestionPro Hits $20m Revenue, $5m Cash In Bank, Selling 60% Of Company For $50m Next?
21/07/2020 Duration: 20minI’m the founder of QuestionPro - a bootstrapped 20M run rate startup that helps companies measure and transform experiences. Born in India by way of Russia, Utah, Seattle, Bay Area - we are now in Austin - where I enjoy BBQ and briskets - we are on a mission to create a global, healthy, profitable SaaS company!
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GetRocket Has $1.6m In Bank, $5m 2019 Revenues, 100 Customers They Recruit For
20/07/2020 Duration: 19minCEO & Co-founder of Rocket. Previously, CEO & Co-founder of Renzu (acquired by SurveyMonkey), VP @Zynga, PM @Amazon and Consultant @McKinsey. HBS and Princeton.
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1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?
19/07/2020 Duration: 18min -
JustCall Hits $2.5m ARR, 60% Profits, Bootstrapped Helping 1600 Teams Use Cloud Phone Systems
18/07/2020 Duration: 17minFounder & CEO, SaaS Labs Inc (maker of JustCall). Chemical engineer by education but love writing code. 4x entrepreneur, 2 exits, sold last business to New York Times. Active angel investor in SaaS businesses.
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IamIP Hits $60k/mo, $3m Raised, 100 Customers Helping With Patent Management
17/07/2020 Duration: 12minI am a patent entrepreneur that teaches and trains technology companies, and IP managers how to make a patent management process more efficient and transparent by using the IAMIP platform. My clients have thousands of patents in their patent portfolio and are struggling every day to keep track of their competition. The IAMIP platform have organized over 5 M patents and my clients have received of 100K automated monitoring’s. Inventor to over 17 patents in the space of power systems and co-founder of IamIP, the 3-time award winning patent software, recognized by the Swedish (Vinnova) and Norwegian (Forskningsrådet) innovation agency and trusted by multiple fortune 500 companies. Searching for patents manually and sharing information over email was 20 years ago. Now it's time to upgrade ourselves. Revolutionizing the IP industry is my passion and focus. As the voice of the patent management platforms that IamIP spearheads, I speak on stages around the world helping companies learn how 100.000 patents impacts
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FreshRelevance Founders Put Up $500k To Start, Now $5m Revenue, 500 Customers
16/07/2020 Duration: 21minMike Austin is the co-founder and CEO at Fresh Relevance. A serial entrepreneur, Mike founded his first software business when he was 16 and has been developing software and software businesses for more than two decades. Having worked in digital marketing for the majority of his career, Mike is an expert in tying digital experiences with traditional marketing databases, with a deep understanding of data and how to leverage it.
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Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars?
15/07/2020 Duration: 22minZvi Schreiber (pronounced "tzvee shryber") is the Founder and CEO of Freightos, the digital backbone for the trillion dollar international freight industry. Previously Zvi was CEO of Lightech (acquired by GE), and Founder and CEO of Unicorn (acuqired by IBM) and Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet) and G.ho.st a predecessor of dropbox which ended in a fire sale. Zvi has spoken widely and written many articles and patents. He has a PhD in computer science and is author of Fizz which tells the history of physics as a novel.
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Workable Hits $30m Run Rate, Burning $10m, Series C Valuation "Less Than $250m"
14/07/2020 Duration: 19minNikos is the CEO of Workable, makers of the popular recruiting software used by 20,000 companies in 100 countries. He led the company from its inception in 2012 to a fast-growing organization with 300 employees in the USA and Europe, raising $95m of venture financing from elite European and American investors. Nikos has appeared as a speaker at the Nantucket Conference, SaaStr and SaaStock, and has been interviewed in popular podcasts and media like Forbes and the New York Times. Nikos holds a Computer Science degree from Imperial College, London. He lives with his wife and two children in Boston, MA. His twitter handle is @moraitakis.
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BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
13/07/2020 Duration: 31minRyan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of BounceX, a marketing technology solution that brings a “logged-in” experience to logged-out website visitors across devices. Under Ryan’s leadership, BounceX has been ranked #1 for employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld and named a best place to work by Crain’s and Fortune.
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MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised
12/07/2020 Duration: 16minCarson Conant is the CEO and Founder of Chicago-based sales enablement solution provider Mediafly. Under Carson’s leadership, Mediafly has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company for five consecutive years, one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces of 2018, and a Best Place to Work by Crain’s Chicago Business. Mediafly’s software is currently leveraged by top Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo, MillerCoors, Disney, and Goldman Sachs.
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Infilect Looking to Raise $4m on $15m Pre With $1m in ARR, Bootstrapped in Retail AI Space
11/07/2020 Duration: 12minAnand has a strong research and product building experience for the past 15 years and is keen on building Intelligent systems that can disrupt retail industry and create several fold efficiency. Anand is currently working on helping global retail brands with deep visibility into retail reality. In the past, he has led large scale analytics products at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA (2009-2013) and at IBM Research, India (2013-2015). Anand has a PhD degree (2009) in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, NY, USA and a B.E degree from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India.
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Wooly Hits 80 Customers, $2m Revenue Helping Brands Turn Customers Into Ambassadors
10/07/2020 Duration: 26minAfter selling an agency to Disney, Scott ruined influencer marketing. He is now on a mission to change how we commerce is done. Word of mouth marketing will finally be measured.
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Inkit Breaks 100 Customers, $1m in Revenue Helping Companies With Direct Mail Campaigns
09/07/2020 Duration: 24minInkit’s direct mail solution tracks and automates personalized letters, marketing collateral, statements, policies, compliance notices, and other pieces of physical mail. Inkit integrates with CRMs digitizing companies’ offline points of contact with their customers - use cases include marketing campaigns, billing, and compliance notices. Inkit counts customers globally, including: P&G, Asana, and Bird.
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Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
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MailUpGroup Market Cap Is $65m, CEO Feels Undervalued
08/07/2020 Duration: 15minMailUp Group is a leading player in the field of cloud marketing technologies, offers a broad spectrum of solutions with a focus on data-driven omni-channel marketing automation, used by SME’s and large corporations to engage their customers. MailUp was founded in 2002, IPO in 2014 on the AIM Italia market.
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FusionAuth is Burning $50k/mo on $25k Revenue in Identity Management Space
07/07/2020 Duration: 15minBrian Pontarelli is a successful technology entrepreneur currently focused on solving login, registration, and user management challenges. Brian works with startup to Fortune 500 organizations struggling to address the complexity of secure CIAM as their businesses requirements evolve and user base scales from a handful of users to millions.
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Gus Chat Raising $5m on $15m Pre Right Now. Are The Worth That Much?
06/07/2020 Duration: 15minPablo Estevez is the founder and CEO of Gus Chat, an AI company that helps companies improve their customer experience with AI and virtual agents. The company is based out of Mexico City with presence in Madrid, Bogota, Guatemala City and Buenos Aires. Gus Chat currently has over 60 clients like Office Depot, American Express and Walmart.
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Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank"
05/07/2020 Duration: 27minCraig has 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, corporate executive, CEO and attorney. He was the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Google Ventures and CEO of Dialpad Communications before it become Yahoo! Voice. He also founded GrandCentral Communications, which was acquired by Google and became Google Voice.
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HelloBox Hits 1500 Customers, $15k/mo Just 12 Months
04/07/2020 Duration: 14minConnecting people, has been always my greatest joy. In a world with endless automation possibilities, it's the human connections, we need to take care of.