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The SaaS Podcast - Growing Profitable AI SaaS & AI Agents

Omer Khan
Saas
Entrepreneurship
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B2B Saas
Customer Success
Bootstrapping
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Saas Growth
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Product Development
Relocation Services
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Leave Management
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Product-Led Growth
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Growth Hacking

Building an AI SaaS is the easy part now. Growing it into a profitable business is the hard part. Every week, a founder gets specific about what actually moved the needle: finding product-market fit, landing customers, pricing, beating AI-native competitors, and getting an AI SaaS or AI agent to real revenue. Host Omer Khan has interviewed 500+ founders. Whether you're taking an AI SaaS or AI agen... more

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He wrote the startup playbook. Then he watched founders who used it lose control of what they built. Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, felt like he was feeding companies into a meat grinder. Founders will hear his startup governance framework, w... more

He talked openly about his startup idea. A competitor took it and beat him to market. Mark Abbott shared his SaaS vision inside a tight-knit coaching community. A member passed it to a client who launched first. Founders will hear how Mark recovered ... more

Two years on Quora and Reddit. Zero customers. Yega Kumarappan and his two co-founders had no sales experience. They bet that founder-led sales could beat the B2B sales playbook. Founders will hear how Paperflite grew from a 400K seed to 500 B2B cust... more

Two failed startups. 250K euros in debt. Stuck in Paris with a sick baby and no plan. Tibo Louis-Lucas walked away from a stable CTO job and shipped 11 products in 4 months on unemployment benefits. Today TMAKER is a bootstrapped SaaS startup portfol... more

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Recent Guests

Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup, author of Incorruptible
Author, Incorruptible / Lean Startup
Episode: Eric Ries on How Founders Quietly Lose Their Company
Mark Abbott
Founder of Ninety (90.io)
Ninety
Episode: Community-Led SaaS Growth: How Ninety Hit $44M ARR
Yega Kumarappan
Co-founder of PaperFlight (PaperFlight)
PaperFlight
Episode: Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos
Tibo Louis-Lucas
Founder/CEO of T Maker and former creator of Tweet Hunter and Taplio
T Maker
Episode: Bootstrapped SaaS: $12M ARR Across 5 Products With a Team of 10
Marius Meiners
Founder of Peak AI
Peak AI
Episode: AI Startup Hits $8.6M ARR With V0 MVP and €85 Pricing
Ev Kontsevoy
Founder/CEO of Teleport (and former Mailgun founder)
Teleport
Episode: The 8-Figure Open Source SaaS Playbook
Karel Papik
Founder/CEO of Product Fruits, AI-enabled SaaS platform
Product Fruits
Episode: The Risky AI SaaS Rebuild That Broke a $2M ARR Ceiling
Girish Redekar
Founder/CEO of Sprinto, previously co-founder of RecruiterBox
Sprinto
Episode: Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Sylvester Dupont
Co-founder of Passer / Parser (B2B SaaS for document data extraction)
Passer (Parser)
Episode: Bootstrapped SaaS Growth When AI Took Over the Market

Host

Omer Khan
Host of The SaaS Podcast - Growing Profitable AI SaaS & AI Agents; leads discussions on practical growth, GTM, and governance in AI-enabled SaaS.

Reviews

4.8 out of 5 stars from 546 ratings
  • Omer, this episode is pure gold! Thank you!

    Podcast Addict
    5
    sandpoint.jack
    7 months ago
  • Delightful

    Huge fan of the podcast. Thank you Omar.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sqweeeeze
    Finland7 months ago
  • Best SaaS podcast for startups

    100% best one in the podcast available

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    JDR106600
    United Kingdoma year ago
  • The discussion from episode 279 about crafting a compelling sales narrative and focusing on a customer’s problems rather than the product itself was incredibly insightful. Your emphasis on identifying and addressing a company’s pain points really stood out as a fundamental yet often underutilized approach to sales and marketing.

    Podchaser
    5
    lyndon19126
    a year ago
  • The beat SaaS podcast

    I love the format. It's not too long, and Omar asks guests what many founders is looking for.

    I got hundreads of notes.

    Thank you.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Damian Naprawa
    Poland2 years ago

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Founder-Led Sales: From 2% to 20% with 10-Hour Custom Demos
Q: How did you find your first paying customer and how long did it take?
The first customer came in via Intercom as an inbound inquiry. They were aware of the problem and willing to work with PaperFlight to evolve the product, which helped validate the approach despite the product being in early stages.
The Risky AI SaaS Rebuild That Broke a $2M ARR Ceiling
Q: What led you to decide to rebuild Product Fruits around AI from scratch?
We faced AI competitors surpassing us; we feared being left behind, so we halted ongoing work to architect an AI-first platform. Investors supported the pivot, and we expected a temporary revenue dip as we shifted strategy.
Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: How did AI shape Sprinto's strategy and product development?
AI is used to make software autonomous, help customers manage AI-driven environments, and improve audit-related workflows; the company emphasizes deterministic components for audits while using AI to automate the rest of the workflow.
Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: What changed to help Sprinto gain traction quickly after RecruiterBox?
They reframed the problem around security certifications and audits, engineered a productized process around audits, and focused GTM on channels where customers were actively seeking compliance solutions, including VC perk programs, SEO, and founder networks.
Finding Product-Market Fit After 3 Years of Failed Ideas
Q: What were some of the ideas Girish tried before RecruiterBox took off, and why did they fail?
They attempted a job search engine in indie.com, which failed because not all jobs had a public digital footprint; later, basic resumes matching worked technically but failed as a business until RecruiterBox formed as a CRM for hiring.

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What is The SaaS Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Across episodes, the show centers on practical, battle-tested strategies for growing a SaaS business, often with AI-infused products or agents. Guests range from bootstrapped founders to founders backed by capital, who share go-to-market tactics, pricing models, product-market fit processes, and governance lessons relevant to scale. A recurring thread is moving from early traction to sustainable revenue, with emphasis on real-world experiments, distribution-led growth, and enterprise-facing GTM. A notable strength is the breadth of founder experiences—from open-source and AI-first pivots to open governance and compliance—paired with concise, actionable takeaways. Listeners can expect tactical playbooks, candid lessons learned, and fresh per... more

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2. Mark Abbott
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7. Karel Papik
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