The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Produ...
Every week, SaaS founders share how they found product-market fit, got their first customers, scaled to $1M+ ARR, and navigated pricing, sales, churn, and AI.
Host Omer Khan has interviewed 500+ founders and coached 150+ through revenue milestones. Whether you're bootstrapping to $10K MRR or scaling past $1M+ ARR, The SaaS Podcast delivers proven growth strategies - not theory.
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SaaS Lead Generation: Write a Book in 2 Weeks, ...
Maria Dykstra (TreDigital) on her SaaS content strategy - write a book in 2 weeks for under $200, publish on Amazon, and use lead magnets to build an email list that converts to clients
36 min
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LinkedIn Lead Generation: The 5-15-5 Formula fo...
Maria Dykstra (TreDigital) on her 5-15-5 social media lead generation formula - 5 days, 15 minutes, 5 people - that helped one client get 70 signups daily using Twitter
40 min
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Influencer Marketing SaaS: Blog to 7-Figure Opt...
Syed Balkhi (OptinMonster) on how SaaS content marketing through WPBeginner drove 7-figure revenue, using Twitter search for content ideas and rebuilding a failed SaaS as a WordPress plugin in 30 days
58 min
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User Onboarding Framework: 130% Growth With No ...
Bridget Harris (YouCanBookMe) on growing a freemium SaaS 130% yearly using free users as a viral marketing channel, reaching near $1M ARR bootstrapped from a kitchen table in Britain
44 min
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SaaS Content Strategy: How Buffer Got 100K User...
Dave Schneider (Ninja Outreach) on using influencer marketing for SaaS growth, covering how to find, rank, and pitch influencers - with case studies from Buffer and Groove
42 min
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SaaS Customer Lifetime Value: Selling a $15K Pr...
Douglas Calhoun (Hack Reactor) on filling $15,000 coding boot camps by selling high-ticket products through genuine coffee conversations instead of sales pitches
45 min
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SaaS Serial Entrepreneur: 3 Businesses by 30, 5...
Andrew Wilkinson (Metalab) on building multiple businesses into multi-million dollar operations by age 30, working five hours a day, and why his cat furniture store was a colossal failure
28 min
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SaaS Without Funding: $200 to Designing Slack's...
Andrew Wilkinson (Metalab) on bootstrapping a design agency from $200 to 60 employees, landing Slack as a client through reputation, and surviving the 2008 recession without debt
25 min
409
SaaS Acquisition: From Startup Weekend to Milli...
Grant Miller (Replicated) on how Look IO went from weekend prototype to multimillion-dollar SaaS exit in 9 months, and why he's now building Replicated for a billion-dollar outcome
48 min
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Customer Acquisition Startup: 2 Customers in Ye...
Robi Ganguly (Apptentive) on how Apptentive got only 2 first SaaS customers in year one, then pivoted to enterprise sales and grew to over $100K MRR with negative churn
41 min
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First Customers: 300 Quora Answers and Zero Ad ...
Rob Rawson (Time Doctor) on customer acquisition startup tactics that grew Time Doctor to $1M ARR - from Quora answers and competitor comparisons to reverse image search for infographic promotion
22 min
412
Bootstrapped Agency to $1M ARR With No Technica...
Rob Rawson (Time Doctor) on building a bootstrapped SaaS to $1M ARR using offshore developers, HackerRank testing, and grassroots content marketing - with no coding skills or funding
29 min
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Usage-Based Pricing: 9 Subscription Models for ...
John Warrillow (The Value Builder System) on 9 subscription models for recurring revenue, the 3:1 LTV to CAC ratio investors demand, and why he wrote The Automatic Customer before planning exits
48 min
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SaaS Customer Discovery: Why Courage Beats Prod...
Peter Shallard (CommitAction) on why SaaS customer discovery depends on courage with 5 strategies for taking bold action as a founder
29 min
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SaaS Branding: How the Shrink for Entrepreneurs...
Peter Shallard (CommitAction) on SaaS branding through niche positioning and neuroscience-backed accountability coaching for founders
33 min
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SaaS Onboarding: How 2 Guys Made $2M Teaching Code
Ankur Nagpal (Fedora) on SaaS onboarding for course creators using self-serve SaaS with graduated pricing from $49 to $5,000
36 min
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SaaS Customer Acquisition: Built a Udemy Rival ...
Ankur Nagpal (Fedora) on SaaS customer acquisition by targeting frustrated Udemy instructors after a revenue share cut to reach $50K/month
29 min
418
Social Media Lead Generation: Blog Post Got a C...
Walter Chen (iDoneThis) on social media lead generation through inbound marketing SaaS content that attracted Zappos CEO as an investor
30 min
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SaaS Customer Development: Why Retention Beats ...
Walter Chen (iDoneThis) on SaaS customer development through Hacker News, turning customers into investors, and why retention is the only metric
31 min
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SaaS Marketplace: 18 Months on Spreadsheets to ...
Katherine Sears (Booktrope) on building a SaaS marketplace for book publishing from spreadsheets to $1M ARR after Y Combinator
42 min
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Early Traction: Pre-Sold $6K Deals With Zero Pr...
Ruben Timmerman (Springest) on getting early traction by pre-selling $6,000 annual deals and using SEO gap analysis to build a comparison platform
52 min
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Customer Acquisition Startup: 3 Methods to Vali...
Trevor Owens (Javelin) on customer acquisition startup tactics using interviews, landing pages, and concierge delivery tested across thousands of ideas
41 min
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Product-Market Fit: 70% Sean Ellis Score Built ...
Trevor Owens (Javelin) on measuring product-market fit with the Sean Ellis survey and pivoting from enterprise to consumer SaaS
32 min
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First SaaS Customers: 86% Survival Rate From 1,...
Adeo Ressi (Founder Institute) on how structured training helps founders find first SaaS customers with an 86% startup traction rate
33 min
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SaaS Marketplace: From $18K Year One to Tens of...
David Ciccarelli (Voices.com) on bootstrapping a SaaS marketplace from a recording studio to tens of millions with no venture capital
48 min