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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Adam Saven, Co-Founder & CEO of PeopleGrove

Adam is the co-founder of PeopleGrove and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since inception. He previously worked at Google as a Business Analyst from 2013 to 2014, performing data analysis as well as informing strategic decisions for the Online Partnerships Group (OPG). Prior to Google, he served as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Technology Group of Credit Suisse.He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

The impetus for starting PeopleGrove came from a realization of how powerful mentors and the Penn alumni network had been in helping Adam to explore various career paths and access great opportunities.

While at Google, Adam embarked on an after-work side project that would eventually become PeopleGrove. PeopleGrove has grown to reimagine mentoring for today's college students and professionals at over 120 colleges and organizations across the country.

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0:00.0	My new book is out on Audible, How to Be a Capitalist without any capital.
0:05.3	You can grab it right now.
0:06.9	Here's what a user Thomas Lornaviticus said.
0:09.6	Latka is the real deal, five stars.
0:12.1	Hey, Nathan, I just listened to your podcast with JLD.
0:14.5	You killed it.
0:15.4	I saw your book earlier last week and thought,
0:17.2	meh, I'll wait when Kindle costs $199 or whatever,
0:20.0	as I have over 150 books to catch
0:21.8	up with. But then I sense that this book may have something I need right now. I bought it for
0:26.4	full price, but didn't really start reading it. Then talking with JLD, you mentioned that the
0:30.4	strategies may not work if you wait. And that's so true. I read it. I'm feeling pumped to devour
0:36.1	it even more. Thank you for sharing it all and kicking
0:38.5	ass. Guys, all of you that listen to the podcast, you were the reason I wrote the book. Sass CEOs,
0:44.1	founders, entrepreneurs. Go grab it today at capitalistbook.com, especially if you like audio,
0:50.0	go grab the audible version right now. Again, capitalistbook.com.
0:56.3	This interview is for all of you college students right now worrying about your 2.8 GPA, worry less about grades, more about hustle.
1:02.2	Adam created its company after a pivot in 2015, really got focused on People Grove landed Stanford
1:08.0	as their first customer. Today, they've got about 170 customers paying
1:11.9	call it 20 grand per year. So about 280 grand per month right now in revenue. That's up from
1:17.2	88 grand or about a million bucks in ARR just a year ago in August of 2017. They've done this
1:22.3	in an extremely capital efficient way. They raised 2.5 million bucks, most recently 2 million
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