25m Wordpress Plugin Downloads, Now Raising $3m for SaaS Product

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A technology and WordPress person turned into CEO. I envision AI automation making the efforts of web developers more effective and boosting business growth.

Since childhood I loved studying science and math. Later it turned into being a professional researcher, an astrophysicist. But at some point in my life, I came back from academy to industry and then went deep into WordPress and web development. I enjoyed working with talented engineers building plugins and themes for WordPress, and helping not only in engineering but also in establishing teams and processes for the growth of engineers and a company as a whole. Seeing a great potential in automation of web development, I spent a few years developing AI website builder, a technology that can help millions of engineers and designers to focus on truly creative and important things and to leave routine and time-consuming tasks to the algorithms.

Now being a CEO I care about a delicate balance between technology and people. I am passionate about building a company with a great culture which turns great ideas into powerful technological achievements while constantly empathizing with the community.

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0:00.0	We have around the 3,000 customers.
0:02.7	3,000 hosted websites.
0:05.2	It's better to say this way.
0:06.7	Got it.
0:07.1	So 3,000 hosted websites times $10 a website.
0:10.3	You're doing about $30,000 a month in revenue?
0:13.3	Yeah, approximately, yes.
0:16.8	You are listening to conversations with Nathan Latka.
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0:32.9	You'll get the full interviews.
0:34.9	Right now, you're only hearing partial interviews.
0:39.1	And you'll get interviews three weeks earlier from founders, thinkers, and people I find interesting. Like Eric Wan,
0:46.2	18 months before he took Zoom public. We got to grow faster. Minimum is 100% over the past several
0:52.9	years. Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.
0:56.6	When I start the company, it was not cool to raise. Or Looker's CEO Frank Bean before Google acquired
1:02.0	his company for $2.6 billion. We want to see a real pervasive data culture and then the rest
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