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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1693 He Gives Founders a CC, No Personal Gauruntee, Will Pass $1B GMV in 30 Day Period by 2020.
13/03/2020 Duration: 15minHenrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & CEO of Brex — the first corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was 16. In three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. Prior to Pagar.me, Henrique built a number of online businesses in Brazil including an education company and a dating application.
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1692 How he Went From Soldier in Afgahnistan to Suriving 2 Failures To Help Non Profits Fundraise
12/03/2020 Duration: 11minJohns Hopkins. Army Ranger. 27 mo in Afghanistan. UNC MBA. Founder of Stop Soldier Suicide & GoodUnited. Husband & father of two.
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1691 Why This Company Rebranded with $950k Raised Helping Clients Customize Proposals
11/03/2020 Duration: 19minAs ClientPoint’s President & CEO, Andy is a seasoned venture-backed high growth leader, with extensive board and operational experience. He has led the growth of large-scale digital media, SaaS, IoT, mobile and app businesses in the B2C and B2B sectors. Andy began his business career at NBC/GE after completing a successful career as a professional basketball player in Europe.
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1690 How He's Pivoting from $1m ARR SaaS To Consumer Data Play
10/03/2020 Duration: 14minBlake Smith is founder and CEO of Cladwell, a digital closet manager. Cladwell's goal is to manage the world's closets, by helping people do more with less. Cladwell resides at the intersection between math and art - much like Blake - who used his background in computational mathematics as a hedge fund analyst before joining the founding team of an agency that produced movies for Walmart, P&G, and many other Fortune 500 brands. In addition to Cladwell, Blake and his wife Chandler raise and homeschool 4 kids.
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1689 Why he Left MINDBODY To Build This Data Visualization Tech for SMB's
09/03/2020 Duration: 13minAndres is the CEO and Founder of iKizmet that delivers business analytics and insights to boutique fitness studio owners. With over 500,000 business in the fitness and wellness space iKizmet is making valuable data analysis tools affordable for small business owners to help them make data driven decisions faster without the complexity while helping to grow their businesses. Andres has been in the fitness and wellness space for over 15 years and was a founding member at MINDBODY helping build a world class sales and business development organization.
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1688 How He Leases Computing Power to Rendering Studios
08/03/2020 Duration: 10minTechnical background, started as software developer. Co-founded my first business in 2001, entrepreneur since then. Went from startup owner to executive in a multi-national company, then back to startup founder. Now CEO of RenderStreet, backed by advanced tech and dedicated to reducing the stress levels of 3D artists and studios worldwide.
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1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money
07/03/2020 Duration: 17minI am the Founder and Product leader at Brandzooka. I develop and scale web services that disrupt and delight. I build teams and create the space for people to deliver extraordinary results and develop Market Product Fit. I write for publications such as AdAge and DowJones and speak regularly on subjects ranging from Entrepreneurship and Ad Tech, to Agile and Product development practices for organizations such as Stanford GSB and IDEO.
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1686 How He Sold His First $1m ARR Company
06/03/2020 Duration: 10minDropped out of college to start the worlds largest answering service, left after 12 years to start an accounting software company, sold that and is now helping marketing agencies close more leads to customers through automation. Live in Eugene, Oregon, married with a 6-year old son.
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1685 Why Data CEO Turned Down $35M Offer, Would Never Work for Facebook
05/03/2020 Duration: 15minMayukh has been working in the Technology industry, specifically cyber security, Identity and Access Management, and data security for the past decade and a half. He has been part of multiple successful startups as an early employee before he ventured out on his own. He has also consulted for Fortune 500 companies such as TD Bank, RBC, ING, and IBM.
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1684 With $60M in ARR, How Braze Drives Serious Expansion Revenue on Old Cohorts
04/03/2020 Duration: 18minAs CEO and Cofounder of Braze (formerly Appboy), Bill is humanizing connections between brands and customers at a global scale. By streamlining customers’ past, present, and future data in an interactive feedback loop, Braze allows brands to take immediate actions on insights – creating personalized messaging experiences.
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1683 Why He Used Affiliates To Get First $20k in MRR
03/03/2020 Duration: 14minJustin Burns is a serial entrepreneur who with just a few hundred dollars and no college degree when he got started and launched his second SAAS platform Miestro- An online course platform that allows for course creators to get their course up fast.
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1682 How He Helps Small Instagram Influencers Make Big Bucks from Major Brands
02/03/2020 Duration: 15minBorn and raised in Puerto Rico previous owner of SociallyRich took up to $50k MRR moved to Austin. SociallyRich got shut down by Facebook and built Trend.io within the same year.
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1681 Why This $5m Legal Compliance Software is Looking for a $5m Bridge Round
01/03/2020 Duration: 16minJaideep is the CEO of Legasis, a market leader in Legal & Compliance Solutions. He is an executive program graduate from Stanford University & repatriated to India in 2012. Jaideep has 21 years of experience & has held leadership positions with organizations like Thomson Reuters. He holds a patent in AI & is a hobby macro-economist.
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1680 Why Even After Raising $1.4M, $180k MRR CEO Having Trouble Hiring Developers in Finland
29/02/2020 Duration: 17minSerial entrepreneur with a wide experience in IT domain from software development to services and software/solution sales. +15 years in service management. Excellent track record of building and leading winning teams. Personal goal: help business leaders to see Information Technology as an organic and critical part of their businesses, not just hard-to-understand-expensive-techie-driven-cost center.
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1679 Why He's Ok Burning $7k/mo In The Early Days
28/02/2020 Duration: 12minWe launched ipgeolocation.io in June 2018 and have 100 paid customers and 3000+ developers actively using us. We handle more than 100 million requests every month.
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1678 How He Helps 1000 Companiees Measure Straetgy, Bootstrapped, $450k in MRR
27/02/2020 Duration: 12minAfter seeing first-hand how bad most organizations are at taking their strategy from PowerPoint to reality, I wanted to see if we could build an affordable technology solution to solve the problem.
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1677 50% Of The UK Police Force Use This Recruiting Tool, $13m ARR
26/02/2020 Duration: 18minJeanette Maister is Managing Director and Head of Americas at Oleeo. At Oleeo, Maister drives growth, influences the product and helps customers leverage technology to transform their recruiting efforts. Prior to Oleeo, Jeanette spent most of her career as a recruiting practitioner holding leadership roles at Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, IBM, and Gartner. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with an MBA in Management from Columbia Business School, Jeanette was recognized as a 2018 IT Women of the Year finalist. She also received the Stevie silver 2017 Female Executive of the Year and the 2017 SmartCEO Brava Award.
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1676 Why 850 Farmers Pay Him $127k/mo To Manage Livestock Feeding
25/02/2020 Duration: 17minDane is a PLA co-founder who brings a breadth of experience and vision to Performance Livestock Analytics. Dane currently owns a progressive agricultural enterprise that consists of row crops and livestock based in Northern Iowa. With the Agricultural experience, Dane brings visionary insights to PLA with his prior experience in precision ag software. Dane most recently leads Iteris as the Sales Director for the agricultural division of ClearAg. Prior to ClearAg, Dane led the business development efforts in the midwest as the Regional Sales Manager at The Climate Corporation, formerly WeatherBill, assisting in scaling the team and sales from a 27 person start up company to a 700 employee company that was acquired by Monsanto for 930 million. Dane has participated in many Agtech venues such as Agstar Technolodge, Global Ag Investment Conference, Ag Innovation Showcase, InfoAg, World Agritech Conference, Agri Innovation Forum.
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1675 Doesn't The CEO Have to Be The First Salesperson?
24/02/2020 Duration: 15minFounder, CEO, Marketer, and Architect of Thapos - sports management platform. I have over 18 years of experience in IT industry as a technology startup founder, software architect, product manager, marketer, and software engineer. I have experienced in all aspects of software development life cycle. I have designed and developed marketing management applications, financial applications, and web-based consumer applications. As a leader or team member, I love to work with teams. I truly believe in teamwork. I am an extremely energetic and highly motivated individual with excellent analytical, organizational and adaptive skills with a passion, to get things done. I enjoy playing and watching sports, working with kids, history, internet, and some television. As an entrepreneur, my first startup was a failure, which only made me stronger. I learned a lot of valuable lessons in this failure. Thapos is my second startup which is going strong. My current team really functions like a team. At Thapos, we all are det
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1674 The Weird FB Ad Headline He Uses to Sell his Rental Management Software
23/02/2020 Duration: 09minAlexander is co-founder and CEO of Syncbnb. Since 1995 he has worked as a web designer, web developer, project manager and team leader, SEO/SEM specialist and social media manager before moving on to C level positions in large tech corporations in Greece. He recently left a Managing Partner position in the largest online services group in Greece to start Syncbnb with his co-founder Petros.