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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

912 SaaS: Internet Hacker Builds Bootstrapped Productivity Tool, Passes $2.4m in ARR

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Rob is a former medical doctor turned Internet entrepreneur who is now running Timedoctor.com and Staff.com. He is from Sydney Australia and has grown to love all things SaaS.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got

0:06.9

filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other

0:16.1

insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million.

0:23.6

I had no money when I started the company.

0:25.6

It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs.

0:29.6

We're a bit strapped.

0:30.6

We have like 22,000 customers.

0:33.6

With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time,

0:38.6

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

0:43.6

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

0:48.7

Hello, everyone.

0:49.6

My guest today is Rob Ross, and he's a formal medical doctor turned internet entrepreneur who is now running

0:55.2

TimeDoctor.com and staff.com. He's from Sydney, Australia, and has grown to love all things

1:01.1

SaaS. Rob, are you ready to take us to the top? Absolutely. All right. So we, first off, how did you

1:07.1

find, we got connected via Git Latka, my database. How did you find the database out of

1:11.4

curiosity? So I actually have a friend who's been listening to your podcast and I'm an avid podcast

1:16.4

listener. I've got about 70 on my podcast list. So I just thought, oh, another SaaS podcast. I'm going to

1:22.0

add you to my list. What do you think? Have you listened to a few? What do you think? Yeah, it's very, very rapid fire.

1:28.4

It's actually a very different style to other podcasts. So I like the fact that you get into the data,

1:33.4

and I think a lot of people would like that as well. Well, speaking of that, so what was your MRR last month?

1:39.0

210,000, uh, 2007 around then. That's impressive growth. And now take us back to 2015 in December. What was MR. Then? Do you remember? Uh, no, 207 around then. That's impressive growth. And now take us back to 2015, uh, in December.

1:46.5

What was MR then?

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