Starting & Sustaining

Josh Pigford, Founder of Baremetrics

January 15th, 2017  |  37 mins 37 secs

Josh is the founder of Baremetrics, a tool for calculating and visualizing your SaaS metrics.

Natalie Nagele, CEO of Wildbit

January 6th, 2017  |  37 mins 38 secs

business, marketing, saas

Natalie is the CEO of Wildbit, makers of Postmark, Beanstalk, and DeployBot, and it's where I work full-time these days.

JD Graffam, Serial Acquirer of SaaS Apps

December 29th, 2016  |  50 mins 2 secs

acquisition, agencies, business, saas

JD Graffam runs multiple agencies and SaaS applications, including Sifter, which he acquired from me in Spring of 2016.

Tyler Rooney, Cofounder and CPO of Format

December 28th, 2016  |  48 mins 8 secs

domains, format.com, portfolio, saas

Tyler Rooney is the Cofounder of Format.com, a portfolio hosting service based in Canada.

Peldi, Founder of Balsamiq

December 26th, 2016  |  36 mins 7 secs

balsamiq, business, plugins, saas, support

Peldi originally set out to create a wireframing plugin for Jira but ultimately ended up creating a tiny empire of wireframing tools via plugins, downloadable software, and more recently SaaS.

Pat Allan, Creator of Thinking Sphinx and Flying Sphinx

December 24th, 2016  |  32 mins 42 secs

business, flying sphinx, open source, software, sphinx, support, thinking sphinx

Pat Allan is the maintainer of the Thinking Sphinx Ruby gem that interfaces with the Sphinx search engine. He has since turned that into a side business with the Flying Sphinx Heroku Add-on.

Anthony Eden, Founder of DNSimple

December 22nd, 2016  |  33 mins 35 secs

business, dns, dnsimple, domains, fraud, infrastructure, saas

Anthony Eden talks about building and running DNSimple, dealing with fraud, and how exhausting it can be running an infrastructure product at times.

Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq and Inspeqtor

December 20th, 2016  |  37 mins 54 secs

business, inspeqtor, open source, sidekiq, software, support

Mike Perham talks about open source, making a living off of software, running a business, and handling support.