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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

🗓️ 19 December 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Founder of Vuture, the 16th fastest SAAS business in the world (2017) Finalist of the Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the year.

London based entrepreneur, who has lived and worked in New York and Sydney. A bootstrap expert, with a strong belief in the fundamentals of underpinning profitability with growth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody. I wanted to just quickly remind you if you love B-2-B SaaS and you're loving all these CEOs I have on, remember, you can get all of their data in a big, beautiful spreadsheet at gitlatka.com. That's G-E-T-L-A-T-K-A dot com. So I hope you're enjoying the month. I love December. I love the holidays and here is our program for today.

0:24.7

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn.

0:36.1

Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines.

0:45.3

We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

0:48.3

I had no money when I started the company.

0:50.3

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. We're bit strapped.

0:55.1

We have like 22,000 customers. With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

1:03.2

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host,

1:09.2

Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

1:13.4

Hello, everybody. My guest today is Robin Stevens. He is the co-founder, or actually the founder

1:18.0

of a company called Future. Okay. And as the founder of Future, it's now the 16th fastest

1:22.8

SaaS business in the world growing. We'll dig into more of that and the detail behind

1:26.9

that in a second.

1:27.6

He's a finalist for the Shell Live Wire Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He's London-based and has

1:32.7

lived and worked in New York and Sydney. He's a bootstrap expert with a strong belief in the

1:36.5

fundamentals of underpinning profitability with growth. Robin, are you ready to take us to the top?

1:41.8

I'm here. Let's do it. Okay, what do you mean by 16th fastest SaaS business in the world?

1:46.4

What do you mean by that?

1:47.7

So there was a report that came out recently on the SAS 1000 list, and we were ranked

1:55.1

at number 16.

1:56.9

The metric, I think, was on staff growth as opposed to turnover.

2:02.2

But we were ranked number one in the UK, number three in Europe, and kind of globally, number 16, one below Salesforce.

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