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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

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

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I work at Stripe, making it easier for companies of all sizes to understand and improve their core operations. Before that, I was the first technical hire at a commercial real estate startup and an engineer at Amazon making it more fun for you to read books on your Kindle.

Transcript

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I remember it was pretty substantial.

0:01.4

Like even now when I look at my historic sign-up graph, like that is a very prominent spike.

0:06.6

It was dramatic and it was very useful.

0:10.7

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hearing partial interviews. And you'll get interviews three weeks earlier from founders, thinkers,

0:36.6

and people I find interesting.

0:38.6

Like Eric Wan, 18 months before he took Zoom public.

0:42.9

We got to grow faster.

0:44.5

Minimum is 100% over the past several years.

0:47.4

Or bootstrap founders like Vivek of QuestionPro.

0:50.6

When I start the company, it was not cool to raise.

0:52.7

Or Looker's CEO, Frank Bean, before Google acquired his company for $2.6 billion.

0:58.7

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