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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

I am a software engineer and entrepreneur who is currently down the blockchain rabbit hole. I have worked in various industries such as Travel and Sports. I started my company Zastrin last year to teach developers blockchain programming through real world projects. I love my family, food and travel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm recording this here on April 5th. It's Sunday. Everyone's trying to survive the crisis.

0:04.7

Quick note to you guys, we are moving. You know, you used to delay these episodes by, you know,

0:09.5

four to eight months after we recorded them in terms of releasing them on the podcast.

0:13.1

We've changed that. A lot of these interviews you're going to hear over the next many months are

0:16.1

going to be ones we recorded only days prior. We think that's a smarter way to run the show. I've made the change.

0:21.9

So expect more urgent information coming out. Secondly, I am getting destroyed on iTunes reviews

0:27.4

by these people that say Nathan's rude. He's hard hitting. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Which, by the way,

0:32.1

I am. It's part of my style. It's what works. The problem is people that love that style never

0:36.5

take the time to go leave a five-star review. So I only get one-star reviews on iTunes. And right now there's a streak of one-star

0:43.0

reviews that is driving me crazy. It would mean the world to me, guys. If you're loving the show,

0:47.5

you love how direct I am, you like the style, if you go leave a review on iTunes now. If you do that and tweet it to me, text it to me,

0:56.2

email it to me, whatever you want, I'm going to reply with a very special surprise. I think

1:00.0

a lot of you guys will really like. It is heavy, heavy data oriented. All right. So I appreciate that.

1:04.5

Thanks, guys. Enjoy the show.

1:07.0

Slowly winding down his full-time job to scale his side project, Zastron, which is essentially

1:12.1

helping people learn Ethereum, kind of like how you learn how to code with, you know, Team Treehouse

1:16.8

or Code Academy.

1:18.4

He's, again, doing that for blockchain and decentralized platforms like Ethereum.

1:22.1

Currently has 200 students paying 20 bucks a month for the platform, so about $4,000 a month

1:26.1

in revenue, just himself building it based up there in Massachusetts, 10% logo turn per month,

1:30.6

bootstrapped, obviously operating at break even hiring contractors to build out the courses.

1:35.5

Hello, everyone.

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